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

Bill Crawford

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
But if your work is your art, a personal reflection of who you are, the only person who can do that better than you, is a future you.
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Art Better Future Persons Reflection
When we take care of ourselves like we would take care of someone we love, the quality of our living and our giving goes up.
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Care Giving Quality
A process for discernment: God is my ultimate source of truth and wisdom, and dwells forever at the center of my being. Therefore, any thought, emotion, or action that takes me further from my center can be neither truthful, nor wise.
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Action Forever Wise
One key to successful relationships is learning to say “no” without guilt, so that you can say “yes” without resentment.
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Guilt Keys Successful
Regardless of the problem, as long as our solution requires someone else to change, we will never know the power and promise of self-determination.
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Determination Long Self
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
There’s no such thing as a ‘stressful’ situation.
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Decision Situations Stressful
Stress is an indicator of our belief in the value and validity of our worries and fears.
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Belief Stress Worry
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
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
To find the true cause of how you think and feel, find the ‘sponsoring thought’ that created the interpretation that created your experience of life.
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Causes Interpretation Thinking
People have the absolute right to be just as unhappy and miserable as they want to be.
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Miserable People Unhappy Want
There are two ways to look at most problems… ‘Oh Crap!’ or, ‘Good Information!,’ and our choice will give us good information on how to deal with problems in the future.
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Choices Giving Two
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 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

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

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