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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.

Bill Crawford

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
Becoming critical in the face of criticism, only inspires more criticism.
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Becoming Criticism Faces Inspire
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
How do you keep people from jerking your chain? Don’t give your chain to jerks!
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Giving Jerk People
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
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
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
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
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
Just because we have a thought, doesn’t mean it is a thought worth having.
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Having Mean Though Worth
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
We limit our success when we mistake the limits of our perception for reality.
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Mistake Perception Reality
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
The most successful form of correction is when the “other” feels informed versus chastised.
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Feels Form Successful
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
Family is the place where acceptance and validation are most needed, but often the hardest to find.
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Acceptance Hardest Validation

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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