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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.

Bill Crawford

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.
BILL CRAWFORD

Giving People Want
To spank or not to spank isn’t the question the question is whether whether we are teaching a quality we want our kids to have as adults?
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Kids Quality Teaching
Just because we have a thought, doesn’t mean it is a thought worth having.
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Having Mean Though Worth
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
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
A meaningful life is composed of a series of meaningful moments. If this is what we want, then the ability to infuse each moment with meaning would seem to be a skill worth practicing.
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Meaningful Skills Want
The journey of life is both too short and too precious to be sidetracked by guilt trips.
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Guilt Journey Life
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 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
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
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
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
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
The problem with lethargy is that doing nothing validates the fear that nothing can be done.
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Doing Done Nothing Problem
Fear of feeling bad rarely makes one feel good.
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Bad Fear Feel Feelings Good
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

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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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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