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Mistakes are just ‘mis-takes,’ or an action that we took that missed.

Bill Crawford

When stress and anxiety have your system stuck in a brainstem loop? Reboot. It’s I.T. for life!
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Anxiety Stress Stuck
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
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
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
Change isn’t about what you are stopping… it’s about what you are starting.
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Change Starting Stopping
You never want to tie your responsibility to another’s irresponsibility.
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Responsibility Ties Want
Becoming critical in the face of criticism, only inspires more criticism.
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Becoming Criticism Faces Inspire
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
Serenity is not just an escape, but a precursor to acceptance, courage, wisdom, and change.
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Acceptance Precursor Serenity
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
One key to success is knowing the difference between knowledge and wisdom. One is information from the past while the other is the key to the future.
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Differences Key Past
Stress is an indicator of our belief in the value and validity of our worries and fears.
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Belief Stress Worry
When our purpose becomes avoidance, our life becomes a void.
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Lives Our Purpose Void
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
Leaders should interact with everyone in their organization as if the interaction is being recorded and will be used as a training film on how to treat colleagues, coworkers, and customers.
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Leader Organization Training
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal while blaming our misery on the person who started the fire.
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Coal Fire Hot
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
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
When people feel criticized, they almost always defend the behavior you want them to change.
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Behavior People Want
Peace of Mind? Don’t leave home (or go home) without it.
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Happened Home Mind Peace
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
Change isn’t always easy, but with purposeful practice, any old habit can be replaced with a way of being we would recommend to those we love.
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Old Habits Practice Way
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
To spank or not to spank isn’t the question the question is whether whether we are teaching a quality we want our kids to have as adults?
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Kids Quality Teaching
When we take care of ourselves like we would take care of someone we love, the quality of our living and our giving goes up.
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Care Giving Quality
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
In our lives, we can either be a reflection of the world around us . . . or a beam that enlightens the lives of others.
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Enlightening Reflection World

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