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

Bill Crawford

Creating a meaningful life has less to do with how we feel about our past than what we do about our future.
BILL CRAWFORD

Creating Meaningful Past
Sometimes our ability to accept what we can’t change is tied to our willingness to change what we can.
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Accepting Change Sometimes Willingness
In our lives, we can either be a reflection of the world around us . . . or a beam that enlightens the lives of others.
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Enlightening Reflection World
One key to success is knowing the difference between knowledge and wisdom. One is information from the past while the other is the key to the future.
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Differences Key Past
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
Change isn’t about what you are stopping… it’s about what you are starting.
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Change Starting Stopping
Worry, shame, and fear can’t be the energy with which we deal with food and weight. It only spurs us to eat more food and produce more glucose/sugar which gets stored as fat.
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Energy Shame Spurs Worry
Just because we have a thought, doesn’t mean it is a thought worth having.
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Having Mean Though Worth
The most powerful times in our lives can be the time between times, or life’s transitions that give us the opportunity to choose.
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Giving Opportunity Powerful
Many of us go from being taken care of as children to taking care of others as adults. Shouldn’t there be a time when we learn to take care of ourselves?
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Adults Children Taken
People have the absolute right to be just as unhappy and miserable as they want to be.
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Miserable People Unhappy Want
Selfish is caring for ourselves at others’ expense … Self-care is taking care of ourselves so that we can be there for others.
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Care Caring Selfish
Nothing destroys a relationship quicker than our fears of inadequacy and loss.
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Inadequacy Loss Nothing Relationship
To change any aspect of our life we must be willing to change our mind… Unfortunately, that is the one thing most people are the least willing to do.
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Aspect Mind People
Never define yourself in terms of how you are negatively affected by others.
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Affected Define Term
Freedom isn’t about having permission to do whatever we want… it’s about having the courage to do whatever fills our life with meaning.
BILL CRAWFORD

Our Lives Permission Want

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

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