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Problems occur when we tie our peace of mind to another’s state of mind.

Bill Crawford

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
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
When faced with conflicting thoughts and emotions, we must decide what to trust, what we fear, or what we know. What’s important is that this decision be made by the knowledgeable versus the anxious part of who we are.
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Decision Faced Important
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
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
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
Worry, shame, and fear can’t be the energy with which we deal with food and weight. It only spurs us to eat more food and produce more glucose/sugar which gets stored as fat.
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Energy Shame Spurs Worry
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
Sleep is simply a chemical change in our brain and body (melatonin) – It?s not a place we go, it is a state of being that we fall into.
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Brain Change Chemical Fall Sleep
We can’t always choose how we feel. We can, however, choose what we do about it, which ironically can change how we feel!
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Choose Feels Ironically
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
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
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
You never want to tie your responsibility to another’s irresponsibility.
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Responsibility Ties Want
In order to become more influential with those who are resistant to our point of view, we must be willing to start with what is influencing them.
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Influential Order Views
How do you keep people from jerking your chain? Don’t give your chain to jerks!
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Giving Jerk People
Mistakes are just ‘mis-takes,’ or an action that we took that missed.
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Actions MIssed Mistakes
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 stress and anxiety have your system stuck in a brainstem loop? Reboot. It’s I.T. for life!
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Anxiety Stress Stuck
The most successful form of correction is when the “other” feels informed versus chastised.
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Feels Form Successful
Change isn’t about what you are stopping… it’s about what you are starting.
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Change Starting Stopping
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
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
You can’t use anxiety to deal with your anxiety it only makes you more anxious.
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Anxiety Anxious Use
Want to change your experience of life? Change the problem to the practice field.
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Changing Life Practice Want
Never define yourself in terms of how you are negatively affected by others.
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Affected Define Term
Living exclusively in the land of the head or the heart will always be a limiting, limited experience. The most successful among us have dual citizenship.
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Heart Land Successful

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