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We can’t always choose how we feel. We can, however, choose what we do about it, which ironically can change how we feel!

Bill Crawford

The journey of life is both too short and too precious to be sidetracked by guilt trips.
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Guilt Journey Life
You can’t ‘cope with’ change anymore than you can ‘manage’ stress.
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Change Manage Stress
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
Just because we have a thought, doesn’t mean it is a thought worth having.
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Having Mean Though Worth
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
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
We limit our success when we mistake the limits of our perception for reality.
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Mistake Perception Reality
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
The most successful form of correction is when the “other” feels informed versus chastised.
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Feels Form Successful
Becoming critical in the face of criticism, only inspires more criticism.
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Becoming Criticism Faces Inspire
To truly be of service to others, we must first serve the server. The ability to bring an enlightened presence to those in need is the ability to light a candle without burning ourselves out.
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Burning Light Needs
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
Fear of feeling bad rarely makes one feel good.
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Bad Fear Feel Feelings Good
What we feed our mind becomes the material with which we build our life.
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Lives Material Mind

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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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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