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When we engage people positively, we create a receptive platform for the ideas and information we wish to communicate.

Bill Crawford

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
Creating a meaningful life has less to do with how we feel about our past than what we do about our future.
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Creating Meaningful Past
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
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
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
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
How do you keep people from jerking your chain? Don’t give your chain to jerks!
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Giving Jerk People
Stress is an indicator of our belief in the value and validity of our worries and fears.
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Belief Stress Worry
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
Holding on to painful images of the past in order to avoid painful experiences in the future serves only to color the present with pain.
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Order Pain Painful Past Serve
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
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
Nothing destroys a relationship quicker than our fears of inadequacy and loss.
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Inadequacy Loss Nothing Relationship
Change isn’t about what you are stopping… it’s about what you are starting.
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Change Starting Stopping
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
You never want to tie your responsibility to another’s irresponsibility.
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Responsibility Ties Want

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