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

Bill Crawford

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
The act of giving is simply a behavior, and the gift merely a symbol. It is the energy behind both that will determine their impact on our lives.
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Energy Giving Impact
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
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
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
Serenity is not just an escape, but a precursor to acceptance, courage, wisdom, and change.
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Acceptance Precursor Serenity
How do you keep people from jerking your chain? Don’t give your chain to jerks!
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Giving Jerk People
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
Want to change your experience of life? Change the problem to the practice field.
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Changing Life Practice Want
You never want to tie your responsibility to another’s irresponsibility.
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Responsibility Ties 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
Problems occur when we tie our peace of mind to another’s state of mind.
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Mind Problem Ties
Just because we have a thought, doesn’t mean it is a thought worth having.
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Having Mean Though Worth
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
The cooperative, creative, and flexible parts of your children reside in the joyful part of their brain.
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Brain Children Creative
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

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

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