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You can’t ‘cope with’ change anymore than you can ‘manage’ stress.

Bill Crawford

We limit our success when we mistake the limits of our perception for reality.
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Mistake Perception Reality
The act of giving is simply a behavior, and the gift merely a symbol. It is the energy behind both that will determine their impact on our lives.
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Energy Giving Impact
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
Autonomy, Purpose, & Mastery: If you are having difficulty creating the life you want, chances are one or more of these are missing.
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Creating Missing Want
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
Fear of feeling bad rarely makes one feel good.
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Bad Fear Feel Feelings Good
Becoming critical in the face of criticism, only inspires more criticism.
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Becoming Criticism Faces Inspire
You never want to tie your responsibility to another’s irresponsibility.
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Responsibility Ties Want
Peace of Mind? Don’t leave home (or go home) without it.
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Happened Home Mind Peace
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 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
Living exclusively in the land of the head or the heart will always be a limiting, limited experience. The most successful among us have dual citizenship.
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Heart Land Successful
Never define yourself in terms of how you are negatively affected by others.
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Affected Define Term
The journey of life is both too short and too precious to be sidetracked by guilt trips.
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Guilt Journey Life
The only time a mistake becomes a failure is when we look for someone to blame.
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Blame Looks Mistakes
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
When stress and anxiety have your system stuck in a brainstem loop? Reboot. It’s I.T. for life!
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Anxiety Stress Stuck
There are two ways to make someone important in our lives … we can either love them or hate them.
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Hate Important Two
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
There’s no such thing as a ‘stressful’ situation.
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Decision Situations Stressful
Many people would rather be certain of their worries and fears, than risk the uncertainty of hope and optimism.
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Optimism People Uncertainty Worry
A process for discernment: God is my ultimate source of truth and wisdom, and dwells forever at the center of my being. Therefore, any thought, emotion, or action that takes me further from my center can be neither truthful, nor wise.
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Action Forever Wise
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
Sleep is simply a chemical change in our brain and body (melatonin) – It?s not a place we go, it is a state of being that we fall into.
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Brain Change Chemical Fall Sleep
The problem with righteous indignation is that even when you’re right, you’re still left feeling indignant.
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Feelings Problems Righteous
The difference between self-confidence and conceit is as simple as love and fear. Jesus was self-confident … Hitler was afraid.
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Confidence Jesus Self Simple

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