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

Bill Crawford

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
When our purpose becomes avoidance, our life becomes a void.
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Lives Our Purpose Void
Never define yourself in terms of how you are negatively affected by others.
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Affected Define Term
The cooperative, creative, and flexible parts of your children reside in the joyful part of their brain.
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Brain Children Creative
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
When people feel criticized, they almost always defend the behavior you want them to change.
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Behavior People 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
Becoming critical in the face of criticism, only inspires more criticism.
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Becoming Criticism Faces Inspire
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
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
You can’t use anxiety to deal with your anxiety it only makes you more anxious.
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Anxiety Anxious Use
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
You can’t ‘cope with’ change anymore than you can ‘manage’ stress.
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Change Manage Stress
When we engage people positively, we create a receptive platform for the ideas and information we wish to communicate.
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Ideas People Wish
There’s no such thing as a ‘stressful’ situation.
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Decision Situations Stressful
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

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