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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

How do you keep people from jerking your chain? Don’t give your chain to jerks!
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Giving Jerk 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
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
To find the true cause of how you think and feel, find the ‘sponsoring thought’ that created the interpretation that created your experience of life.
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Causes Interpretation Thinking
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
You can’t ‘cope with’ change anymore than you can ‘manage’ stress.
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Change Manage Stress
Perspective is what allows us to step back and see the entire forest instead of just the same old tree we keep running into again and again.
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Perspective Running Tree
The problem with lethargy is that doing nothing validates the fear that nothing can be done.
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Doing Done Nothing Problem
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
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
Family is the place where acceptance and validation are most needed, but often the hardest to find.
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Acceptance Hardest Validation
Children don’t know that they are lovable until they are loved. They need to see it in our eyes before they can accept it in their hearts.
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Children Eye Heart
You can’t use anxiety to deal with your anxiety it only makes you more anxious.
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Anxiety Anxious Use
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
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
One key to success is knowing the difference between knowledge and wisdom. One is information from the past while the other is the key to the future.
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Differences Key Past

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