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How do you keep people from jerking your chain? Don’t give your chain to jerks!

Bill Crawford

A meaningful life is composed of a series of meaningful moments. If this is what we want, then the ability to infuse each moment with meaning would seem to be a skill worth practicing.
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Meaningful Skills Want
When a loving, meaningful experience is our goal, we must trust an energy that is congruent with that goal as our guide along the way. Bottom line, trust love over fear if love is what you’re after.
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Goal Love Meaningful
Perspective is what allows us to step back and see the entire forest instead of just the same old tree we keep running into again and again.
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Perspective Running Tree
Living exclusively in the land of the head or the heart will always be a limiting, limited experience. The most successful among us have dual citizenship.
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Heart Land Successful
Mistakes are just ‘mis-takes,’ or an action that we took that missed.
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Actions MIssed Mistakes
The only time a mistake becomes a failure is when we look for someone to blame.
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Blame Looks Mistakes
Never define yourself in terms of how you are negatively affected by others.
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Affected Define Term
The act of giving is simply a behavior, and the gift merely a symbol. It is the energy behind both that will determine their impact on our lives.
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Energy Giving Impact
The most successful form of correction is when the “other” feels informed versus chastised.
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Feels Form Successful
To influence others, we must know what is influencing them… and they must know that we get it.
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Influence Knows Others People
But if your work is your art, a personal reflection of who you are, the only person who can do that better than you, is a future you.
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Art Better Future Persons Reflection
True ‘magic’ is simply the ability to transcend what seems to be and, thus, transform one’s experience. Maybe we could all use a little ‘Harry Potter’ in our lives.
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Magic Potters Use
Never define people or situations in terms of their effect on you, unless you want to give them the power to make you feel that way.
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Giving People Want
When dealing with problems, seek not to “change” some aspect of your life but instead, choose who you want to become as a path to what you want. Transformation and healing then take place as a process of becoming versus avoiding.
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Healing Path Want
Regardless of the problem, as long as our solution requires someone else to change, we will never know the power and promise of self-determination.
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Determination Long Self
One key to creating a meaningful life, is choosing what we want to feel, and for how long.
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Creating Keys Meaningful

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