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

Bill Crawford

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
The journey of life is both too short and too precious to be sidetracked by guilt trips.
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Guilt Journey Life
How do you keep people from jerking your chain? Don’t give your chain to jerks!
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Giving Jerk People
You can’t ‘cope with’ change anymore than you can ‘manage’ stress.
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Change Manage Stress
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
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
Fear of feeling bad rarely makes one feel good.
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Bad Fear Feel Feelings Good
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
One barrier to being a great parent is the mistaken belief that we are raising kids.
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Belief Kids Parents
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
Want to change your experience of life? Change the problem to the practice field.
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Changing Life Practice Want
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
The problem with lethargy is that doing nothing validates the fear that nothing can be done.
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Doing Done Nothing Problem
The difference between self-confidence and conceit is as simple as love and fear. Jesus was self-confident … Hitler was afraid.
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Confidence Jesus Self Simple
Perspective is what allows us to step back and see the entire forest instead of just the same old tree we keep running into again and again.
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Perspective Running Tree
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

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

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