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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.

Bill Crawford

Freedom isn’t about having permission to do whatever we want… it’s about having the courage to do whatever fills our life with meaning.
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Our Lives Permission Want
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
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
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
How do you keep people from jerking your chain? Don’t give your chain to jerks!
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Giving Jerk People
Serenity is not just an escape, but a precursor to acceptance, courage, wisdom, and change.
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Acceptance Precursor Serenity
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
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
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
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 people feel criticized, they almost always defend the behavior you want them to change.
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Behavior People Want
There are two ways to make someone important in our lives … we can either love them or hate them.
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Hate Important Two
The only time a mistake becomes a failure is when we look for someone to blame.
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Blame Looks Mistakes
You never want to tie your responsibility to another’s irresponsibility.
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Responsibility Ties Want
There’s no such thing as a ‘stressful’ situation.
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Decision Situations Stressful
Our past is not, as some fear, a series of events carved in stone that we must carry around for the rest of our lives… but a kaleidoscope of experiences that, when viewed through different lenses, can ‘color’ (change) how we see our present and future.
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Color Events Past
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 our purpose becomes avoidance, our life becomes a void.
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Lives Our Purpose Void
You can’t use anxiety to deal with your anxiety it only makes you more anxious.
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Anxiety Anxious Use
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
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
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
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
It’s not simply what we feel, but what we feed, that determines what we do and how we live.
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Determined Feels Simply
When dealing with problems, seek not to “change” some aspect of your life but instead, choose who you want to become as a path to what you want. Transformation and healing then take place as a process of becoming versus avoiding.
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Healing Path Want
We limit our success when we mistake the limits of our perception for reality.
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Mistake Perception Reality
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

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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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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