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When people feel criticized, they almost always defend the behavior you want them to change.

Bill Crawford

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
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
You can’t fight fire with fire, or fear with fear.
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Create Fighting Fire Happen
When we engage people positively, we create a receptive platform for the ideas and information we wish to communicate.
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Ideas People Wish
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
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
Peace of Mind? Don’t leave home (or go home) without it.
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Happened Home Mind Peace
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
Leaders should interact with everyone in their organization as if the interaction is being recorded and will be used as a training film on how to treat colleagues, coworkers, and customers.
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Leader Organization Training
You never want to tie your responsibility to another’s irresponsibility.
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Responsibility Ties Want
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
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
It’s not simply what we feel, but what we feed, that determines what we do and how we live.
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Determined Feels Simply
The problem with lethargy is that doing nothing validates the fear that nothing can be done.
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Doing Done Nothing Problem
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

When people feel criticized, they almost always defend the behavior you want them to change.

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