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Never make your highest purpose, or the most important thing in your life something that is outside of your control.

Bill Crawford

When we take no responsibility for any aspect of our past, we limit our ability to respond in the present and the future.
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Aspects Future Limits Past Responsibility
The only time a mistake becomes a failure is when we look for someone to blame.
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Blame Looks Mistakes
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
Realistic optimism allows us to experience the best until we have to deal with the worst … which often, never comes.
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Optimism Realistic Worst
You can’t fight fire with fire, or fear with fear.
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Create Fighting Fire Happen
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
When people feel criticized, they almost always defend the behavior you want them to change.
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Behavior People Want
One key to successful relationships is learning to say “no” without guilt, so that you can say “yes” without resentment.
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Guilt Keys Successful
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
There are two ways to look at most problems… ‘Oh Crap!’ or, ‘Good Information!,’ and our choice will give us good information on how to deal with problems in the future.
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Choices Giving Two
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
The past exists not as a factual recounting of what happened, but as an experience that we are constantly recreating in our mind which means we CAN change the past!
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Constantly Mean Mind Past
Peace of Mind? Don’t leave home (or go home) without it.
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Happened Home Mind Peace
When our purpose becomes avoidance, our life becomes a void.
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Lives Our Purpose Void
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
You can’t ‘cope with’ change anymore than you can ‘manage’ stress.
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Change Manage Stress

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