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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 care of ourselves like we would take care of someone we love, the quality of our living and our giving goes up.
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Care Giving Quality
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
Leaders should interact with everyone in their organization as if the interaction is being recorded and will be used as a training film on how to treat colleagues, coworkers, and customers.
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Leader Organization Training
When people feel criticized, they almost always defend the behavior you want them to change.
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Behavior People Want
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
What we feed our mind becomes the material with which we build our life.
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Lives Material Mind
Life is not a means to an end but a series of experiences. Are you creating your series ‘on purpose’ ?
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Creating Mean Purpose
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
You can’t fight fire with fire, or fear with fear.
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Create Fighting Fire Happen
Family is the place where acceptance and validation are most needed, but often the hardest to find.
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Acceptance Hardest Validation
To truly be of service to others, we must first serve the server. The ability to bring an enlightened presence to those in need is the ability to light a candle without burning ourselves out.
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Burning Light Needs
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
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
Freedom isn’t about having permission to do whatever we want… it’s about having the courage to do whatever fills our life with meaning.
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Our Lives Permission 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
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
Fear of feeling bad rarely makes one feel good.
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Bad Fear Feel Feelings Good
There are only three things we ‘have to’ do in this world we have to be born, we have to die, and we have to live until we die. Everything else is a choice!
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Choices Three World
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
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
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
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 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
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
How do you keep people from jerking your chain? Don’t give your chain to jerks!
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Giving Jerk People
Serenity is not just an escape, but a precursor to acceptance, courage, wisdom, and change.
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Acceptance Precursor Serenity

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