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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.

Bill Crawford

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
How do you keep people from jerking your chain? Don’t give your chain to jerks!
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Giving Jerk People
Peace of Mind? Don’t leave home (or go home) without it.
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Happened Home Mind Peace
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 key to creating a meaningful life, is choosing what we want to feel, and for how long.
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Creating Keys Meaningful
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
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
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
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
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
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
The true measure of our belief in the validity of our values is our willingness to act upon them.
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Belief Validity Willingness
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
The only time a mistake becomes a failure is when we look for someone to blame.
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Blame Looks 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
The past exists not as a factual recounting of what happened, but as an experience that we are constantly recreating in our mind which means we CAN change the past!
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Constantly Mean Mind Past

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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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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