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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

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
Worry, shame, and fear can’t be the energy with which we deal with food and weight. It only spurs us to eat more food and produce more glucose/sugar which gets stored as fat.
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Energy Shame Spurs Worry
In our lives, we can either be a reflection of the world around us . . . or a beam that enlightens the lives of others.
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Enlightening Reflection World
The problem with lethargy is that doing nothing validates the fear that nothing can be done.
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Doing Done Nothing Problem
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
You can’t use anxiety to deal with your anxiety it only makes you more anxious.
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Anxiety Anxious Use
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
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
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
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
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
There’s no such thing as a ‘stressful’ situation.
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Decision Situations Stressful
You can’t ‘cope with’ change anymore than you can ‘manage’ stress.
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Change Manage Stress
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
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
Many people would rather be certain of their worries and fears, than risk the uncertainty of hope and optimism.
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Optimism People Uncertainty Worry
Problems occur when we tie our peace of mind to another’s state of mind.
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Mind Problem Ties
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
When people feel criticized, they almost always defend the behavior you want them to change.
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Behavior People Want
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
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

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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