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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

The only time a mistake becomes a failure is when we look for someone to blame.
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Blame Looks Mistakes
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
But if your work is your art, a personal reflection of who you are, the only person who can do that better than you, is a future you.
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Art Better Future Persons Reflection
One key to successful relationships is learning to say “no” without guilt, so that you can say “yes” without resentment.
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Guilt Keys Successful
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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Color Events Past
We limit our success when we mistake the limits of our perception for reality.
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Mistake Perception Reality
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
You can’t use anxiety to deal with your anxiety it only makes you more anxious.
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Anxiety Anxious Use
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
There are two ways to look at most problems… ‘Oh Crap!’ or, ‘Good Information!,’ and our choice will give us good information on how to deal with problems in the future.
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Choices Giving Two
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
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
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
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
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
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
How do you keep people from jerking your chain? Don’t give your chain to jerks!
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Giving Jerk People
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
The problem with lethargy is that doing nothing validates the fear that nothing can be done.
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Doing Done Nothing Problem
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
When we engage people positively, we create a receptive platform for the ideas and information we wish to communicate.
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Ideas People Wish
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
The most powerful times in our lives can be the time between times, or life’s transitions that give us the opportunity to choose.
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Giving Opportunity Powerful
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
What we feed our mind becomes the material with which we build our life.
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Lives Material Mind
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

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