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To influence others, we must know what is influencing them… and they must know that we get it.

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
Never define yourself in terms of how you are negatively affected by others.
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Affected Define Term
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
Just because we have a thought, doesn’t mean it is a thought worth having.
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Having Mean Though Worth
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
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
How do you keep people from jerking your chain? Don’t give your chain to jerks!
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Giving Jerk People
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
True ‘magic’ is simply the ability to transcend what seems to be and, thus, transform one’s experience. Maybe we could all use a little ‘Harry Potter’ in our lives.
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Magic Potters Use
Nothing is meaningless it’s how we assign meaning to the past that determines how we experience the present, and future.
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Determined Meaningless Past
The problem with righteous indignation is that even when you’re right, you’re still left feeling indignant.
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Feelings Problems Righteous
Change isn’t always easy, but with purposeful practice, any old habit can be replaced with a way of being we would recommend to those we love.
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Old Habits Practice Way
There are two ways to make someone important in our lives … we can either love them or hate them.
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Hate Important Two
The only time a mistake becomes a failure is when we look for someone to blame.
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Blame Looks Mistakes
Mistakes are just ‘mis-takes,’ or an action that we took that missed.
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Actions MIssed Mistakes
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

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