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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.

Bill Crawford

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
Selfish is caring for ourselves at others’ expense … Self-care is taking care of ourselves so that we can be there for others.
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Care Caring Selfish
The journey of life is both too short and too precious to be sidetracked by guilt trips.
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Guilt Journey Life
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
You can’t ‘cope with’ change anymore than you can ‘manage’ stress.
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Change Manage Stress
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
Mistakes are just ‘mis-takes,’ or an action that we took that missed.
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Actions MIssed Mistakes
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
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
True ‘magic’ is simply the ability to transcend what seems to be and, thus, transform one’s experience. Maybe we could all use a little ‘Harry Potter’ in our lives.
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Magic Potters Use
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
Images of resentment and revenge only have us spending the precious moments of our lives imagining the ‘other’ as both dangerous and important!
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Important Resentment Revenge
When people feel criticized, they almost always defend the behavior you want them to change.
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Behavior People Want
Diversity, or the state of being different, isn’t the same as inclusion. One is a description of what is, while the other describes a style of interaction essential to effective teams and organizations.
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Diversity Organization Team
The true measure of our belief in the validity of our values is our willingness to act upon them.
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Belief Validity Willingness
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
We limit our success when we mistake the limits of our perception for reality.
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Mistake Perception Reality
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
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
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
There are only three things we ‘have to’ do in this world we have to be born, we have to die, and we have to live until we die. Everything else is a choice!
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Choices Three World
Worry, shame, and fear can’t be the energy with which we deal with food and weight. It only spurs us to eat more food and produce more glucose/sugar which gets stored as fat.
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Energy Shame Spurs Worry
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 problem with lethargy is that doing nothing validates the fear that nothing can be done.
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Doing Done Nothing Problem
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

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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