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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

The problem with righteous indignation is that even when you’re right, you’re still left feeling indignant.
BILL CRAWFORD

Feelings Problems Righteous
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
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
Regardless of the problem, as long as our solution requires someone else to change, we will never know the power and promise of self-determination.
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Determination Long Self
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 problem with lethargy is that doing nothing validates the fear that nothing can be done.
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Doing Done Nothing Problem
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
You can’t use anxiety to deal with your anxiety it only makes you more anxious.
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Anxiety Anxious Use
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
When people feel criticized, they almost always defend the behavior you want them to change.
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Behavior People Want
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
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
You can’t ‘cope with’ change anymore than you can ‘manage’ stress.
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Change Manage Stress
In our lives, we can either be a reflection of the world around us . . . or a beam that enlightens the lives of others.
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Enlightening Reflection World
Life is not a means to an end but a series of experiences. Are you creating your series ‘on purpose’ ?
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Creating Mean Purpose
We can’t always choose how we feel. We can, however, choose what we do about it, which ironically can change how we feel!
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Choose Feels Ironically

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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