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When we take care of ourselves like we would take care of someone we love, the quality of our living and our giving goes up.

Bill Crawford

When faced with conflicting thoughts and emotions, we must decide what to trust, what we fear, or what we know. What’s important is that this decision be made by the knowledgeable versus the anxious part of who we are.
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Decision Faced Important
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
To truly be of service to others, we must first serve the server. The ability to bring an enlightened presence to those in need is the ability to light a candle without burning ourselves out.
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Burning Light Needs
We can’t always choose how we feel. We can, however, choose what we do about it, which ironically can change how we feel!
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Choose Feels Ironically
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
You can’t ‘cope with’ change anymore than you can ‘manage’ stress.
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Change Manage Stress
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
There’s no such thing as a ‘stressful’ situation.
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Decision Situations Stressful
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
We limit our success when we mistake the limits of our perception for reality.
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Mistake Perception Reality
Mistakes are just ‘mis-takes,’ or an action that we took that missed.
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Actions MIssed Mistakes
Becoming critical in the face of criticism, only inspires more criticism.
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Becoming Criticism Faces Inspire
When we take care of ourselves like we would take care of someone we love, the quality of our living and our giving goes up.
BILL CRAWFORD

Care Giving Quality
Problems occur when we tie our peace of mind to another’s state of mind.
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Mind Problem Ties
It’s not simply what we feel, but what we feed, that determines what we do and how we live.
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Determined Feels Simply
Change isn’t always easy, but with purposeful practice, any old habit can be replaced with a way of being we would recommend to those we love.
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Old Habits Practice Way

When we take care of ourselves like we would take care of someone we love, the quality of our living and our giving goes up.

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