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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.

Bill Crawford

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
Realistic optimism allows us to experience the best until we have to deal with the worst … which often, never comes.
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Optimism Realistic Worst
Life is not a means to an end but a series of experiences. Are you creating your series ‘on purpose’ ?
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Creating Mean Purpose
You can’t use anxiety to deal with your anxiety it only makes you more anxious.
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Anxiety Anxious Use
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
You can’t ‘cope with’ change anymore than you can ‘manage’ stress.
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Change Manage Stress
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
When people feel criticized, they almost always defend the behavior you want them to change.
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Behavior People Want
There’s no such thing as a ‘stressful’ situation.
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Decision Situations Stressful
The problem with righteous indignation is that even when you’re right, you’re still left feeling indignant.
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Feelings Problems Righteous
Never define yourself in terms of how you are negatively affected by others.
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Affected Define Term
In order to become more influential with those who are resistant to our point of view, we must be willing to start with what is influencing them.
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Influential Order Views
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
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
The only time a mistake becomes a failure is when we look for someone to blame.
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Blame Looks Mistakes
Becoming critical in the face of criticism, only inspires more criticism.
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Becoming Criticism Faces Inspire

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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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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