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There are two ways to make someone important in our lives … we can either love them or hate them.

Bill Crawford

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
Problems occur when we tie our peace of mind to another’s state of mind.
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Mind Problem Ties
Never define yourself in terms of how you are negatively affected by others.
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Affected Define Term
Sometimes our ability to accept what we can’t change is tied to our willingness to change what we can.
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Accepting Change Sometimes Willingness
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
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
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
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 a loving, meaningful experience is our goal, we must trust an energy that is congruent with that goal as our guide along the way. Bottom line, trust love over fear if love is what you’re after.
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Goal Love Meaningful
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
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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Aspect Mind People
How do you keep people from jerking your chain? Don’t give your chain to jerks!
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Giving Jerk People
In order to become more influential with those who are resistant to our point of view, we must be willing to start with what is influencing them.
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Influential Order Views
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
To understand ourself, we must understand our “selves,” or the parts of us that motivate our thoughts, decisions, and behaviors.
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Behavior Decision Self
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

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