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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

Creating a meaningful life has less to do with how we feel about our past than what we do about our future.
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Creating Meaningful Past
The most successful form of correction is when the “other” feels informed versus chastised.
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Feels Form Successful
The problem with lethargy is that doing nothing validates the fear that nothing can be done.
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Doing Done Nothing Problem
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
How do you keep people from jerking your chain? Don’t give your chain to jerks!
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Giving Jerk People
Regardless of what is being discussed . . . the issue is never more important than the quality of the interaction.
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Important Issues Quality
Sometimes knowing what to do is knowing when to stop.
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Issue Knowing Matters Sometimes
Nothing destroys a relationship quicker than our fears of inadequacy and loss.
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Inadequacy Loss Nothing Relationship
You never want to tie your responsibility to another’s irresponsibility.
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Responsibility Ties Want
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
Change isn’t about what you are stopping… it’s about what you are starting.
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Change Starting Stopping
When people feel criticized, they almost always defend the behavior you want them to change.
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Behavior People Want
Holding on to painful images of the past in order to avoid painful experiences in the future serves only to color the present with pain.
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Order Pain Painful Past Serve
Fear of feeling bad rarely makes one feel good.
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Bad Fear Feel Feelings Good
Mistakes are just ‘mis-takes,’ or an action that we took that missed.
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Actions MIssed Mistakes
Stress is an indicator of our belief in the value and validity of our worries and fears.
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Belief Stress Worry

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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