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

Bill Crawford

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.
BILL CRAWFORD

Our Lives Permission Want
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
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
Regardless of what is being discussed . . . the issue is never more important than the quality of the interaction.
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Important Issues Quality
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
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
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
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
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
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
Trust is simply a set of expectations about the present and the future. The key is to ensure that these are chosen and evaluated based upon awareness versus fear.
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Awareness Expectations Keys
What we feed our mind becomes the material with which we build our life.
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Lives Material Mind
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
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
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 only time a mistake becomes a failure is when we look for someone to blame.
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Blame Looks Mistakes

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