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Sometimes knowing what to do is knowing when to stop.

Bill Crawford

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
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal while blaming our misery on the person who started the fire.
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Coal Fire Hot
To understand ourself, we must understand our “selves,” or the parts of us that motivate our thoughts, decisions, and behaviors.
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Behavior Decision Self
One key to success is knowing the difference between knowledge and wisdom. One is information from the past while the other is the key to the future.
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Differences Key Past
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
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
The past exists not as a factual recounting of what happened, but as an experience that we are constantly recreating in our mind which means we CAN change the past!
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Constantly Mean Mind Past
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
When a loving, meaningful experience is our goal, we must trust an energy that is congruent with that goal as our guide along the way. Bottom line, trust love over fear if love is what you’re after.
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Goal Love Meaningful
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
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
You never want to tie your responsibility to another’s irresponsibility.
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Responsibility Ties Want
Nothing destroys a relationship quicker than our fears of inadequacy and loss.
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Inadequacy Loss Nothing Relationship
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
There’s no such thing as a ‘stressful’ situation.
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Decision Situations Stressful
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

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