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Trust is simply a set of expectations about the present and the future. The key is to ensure that these are chosen and evaluated based upon awareness versus fear.

Bill Crawford

Perspective is what allows us to step back and see the entire forest instead of just the same old tree we keep running into again and again.
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Perspective Running Tree
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
Nothing destroys a relationship quicker than our fears of inadequacy and loss.
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Inadequacy Loss Nothing Relationship
Images of resentment and revenge only have us spending the precious moments of our lives imagining the ‘other’ as both dangerous and important!
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Important Resentment Revenge
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
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
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
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 fight fire with fire, or fear with fear.
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Create Fighting Fire Happen
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
One barrier to being a great parent is the mistaken belief that we are raising kids.
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Belief Kids Parents
The only time a mistake becomes a failure is when we look for someone to blame.
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Blame Looks Mistakes
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
Meaning isn’t something we discover, it is what we bring to life, either by choice or by chance.
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Chance Choices Meaning
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
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal while blaming our misery on the person who started the fire.
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Coal Fire Hot

Trust is simply a set of expectations about the present and the future. The key is to ensure that these are chosen and evaluated based upon awareness versus fear.

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