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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

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
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
Becoming critical in the face of criticism, only inspires more criticism.
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Becoming Criticism Faces Inspire
Change isn’t about what you are stopping… it’s about what you are starting.
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Change Starting Stopping
The only time a mistake becomes a failure is when we look for someone to blame.
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Blame Looks Mistakes
Children don’t know that they are lovable until they are loved. They need to see it in our eyes before they can accept it in their hearts.
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Children Eye Heart
You can’t ‘cope with’ change anymore than you can ‘manage’ stress.
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Change Manage Stress
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
Want to change your experience of life? Change the problem to the practice field.
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Changing Life Practice Want
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
Peace of Mind? Don’t leave home (or go home) without it.
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Happened Home Mind Peace
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
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
Mistakes are just ‘mis-takes,’ or an action that we took that missed.
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Actions MIssed Mistakes
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
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
Never define people or situations in terms of their effect on you, unless you want to give them the power to make you feel that way.
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Giving People Want
The most powerful times in our lives can be the time between times, or life’s transitions that give us the opportunity to choose.
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Giving Opportunity Powerful
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
Diversity, or the state of being different, isn’t the same as inclusion. One is a description of what is, while the other describes a style of interaction essential to effective teams and organizations.
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Diversity Organization Team
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
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
Fear of feeling bad rarely makes one feel good.
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Bad Fear Feel Feelings Good
Autonomy, Purpose, & Mastery: If you are having difficulty creating the life you want, chances are one or more of these are missing.
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Creating Missing Want
Never make your highest purpose, or the most important thing in your life something that is outside of your control.
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Highest Important Purpose Sometimes
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
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

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