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

Bill Crawford

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
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
Fear of feeling bad rarely makes one feel good.
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Bad Fear Feel Feelings Good
Family is the place where acceptance and validation are most needed, but often the hardest to find.
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Acceptance Hardest Validation
There’s no such thing as a ‘stressful’ situation.
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Decision Situations Stressful
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
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
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
Holding on to painful images of the past in order to avoid painful experiences in the future serves only to color the present with pain.
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Order Pain Painful Past Serve
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
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
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
Never define people or situations in terms of their effect on you, unless you want to give them the power to make you feel that way.
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Giving People Want
The most successful form of correction is when the “other” feels informed versus chastised.
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Feels Form Successful
Change isn’t about what you are stopping… it’s about what you are starting.
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Change Starting Stopping
You can’t fight fire with fire, or fear with fear.
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Create Fighting Fire Happen

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