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The problem with lethargy is that doing nothing validates the fear that nothing can be done.

Bill Crawford

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
Many of us go from being taken care of as children to taking care of others as adults. Shouldn’t there be a time when we learn to take care of ourselves?
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Adults Children Taken
The problem with lethargy is that doing nothing validates the fear that nothing can be done.
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Doing Done Nothing Problem
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
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
Fear of feeling bad rarely makes one feel good.
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Bad Fear Feel Feelings Good
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
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
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
Mistakes are just ‘mis-takes,’ or an action that we took that missed.
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Actions MIssed Mistakes
When dealing with problems, seek not to “change” some aspect of your life but instead, choose who you want to become as a path to what you want. Transformation and healing then take place as a process of becoming versus avoiding.
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Healing Path Want
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
How do you keep people from jerking your chain? Don’t give your chain to jerks!
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Giving Jerk People
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
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 use anxiety to deal with your anxiety it only makes you more anxious.
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Anxiety Anxious Use

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