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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

You can’t ‘cope with’ change anymore than you can ‘manage’ stress.
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Change Manage Stress
Leaders should interact with everyone in their organization as if the interaction is being recorded and will be used as a training film on how to treat colleagues, coworkers, and customers.
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Leader Organization Training
Never make your highest purpose, or the most important thing in your life something that is outside of your control.
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Highest Important Purpose Sometimes
If you want to change your life, you must change your mind and change your brain? on purpose.
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Brain Mind Purpose
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 people feel criticized, they almost always defend the behavior you want them to change.
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Behavior People Want
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
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
Diversity, or the state of being different, isn’t the same as inclusion. One is a description of what is, while the other describes a style of interaction essential to effective teams and organizations.
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Diversity Organization Team
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
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
The journey of life is both too short and too precious to be sidetracked by guilt trips.
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Guilt Journey Life
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
Becoming critical in the face of criticism, only inspires more criticism.
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Becoming Criticism Faces Inspire
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
There are two ways to make someone important in our lives … we can either love them or hate them.
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Hate Important Two
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 never want to tie your responsibility to another’s irresponsibility.
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Responsibility Ties 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 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 key to being with family is to engage with those we love in a way we would teach to those we love.
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Keys Teach Way
One barrier to being a great parent is the mistaken belief that we are raising kids.
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Belief Kids Parents
To find the true cause of how you think and feel, find the ‘sponsoring thought’ that created the interpretation that created your experience of life.
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Causes Interpretation Thinking
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
Serenity is not just an escape, but a precursor to acceptance, courage, wisdom, and change.
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Acceptance Precursor Serenity
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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Care Giving Quality
Our past is not, as some fear, a series of events carved in stone that we must carry around for the rest of our lives… but a kaleidoscope of experiences that, when viewed through different lenses, can ‘color’ (change) how we see our present and future.
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Color Events Past

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