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The true measure of our belief in the validity of our values is our willingness to act upon them.

Bill Crawford

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
We limit our success when we mistake the limits of our perception for reality.
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Mistake Perception Reality
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
Creating a meaningful life has less to do with how we feel about our past than what we do about our future.
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Creating Meaningful Past
Meaning isn’t something we discover, it is what we bring to life, either by choice or by chance.
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Chance Choices Meaning
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
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
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
Mistakes are just ‘mis-takes,’ or an action that we took that missed.
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Actions MIssed Mistakes
How do you keep people from jerking your chain? Don’t give your chain to jerks!
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Giving Jerk People
Autonomy, Purpose, & Mastery: If you are having difficulty creating the life you want, chances are one or more of these are missing.
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Creating Missing Want
What we feed our mind becomes the material with which we build our life.
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Lives Material Mind
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
Becoming critical in the face of criticism, only inspires more criticism.
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Becoming Criticism Faces Inspire
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 problem with lethargy is that doing nothing validates the fear that nothing can be done.
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Doing Done Nothing Problem

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