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Sometimes our ability to accept what we can’t change is tied to our willingness to change what we can.

Bill Crawford

Living exclusively in the land of the head or the heart will always be a limiting, limited experience. The most successful among us have dual citizenship.
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Heart Land Successful
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
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
You never want to tie your responsibility to another’s irresponsibility.
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Responsibility Ties Want
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
Many of us go from being taken care of as children to taking care of others as adults. Shouldn’t there be a time when we learn to take care of ourselves?
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Adults Children Taken
The cooperative, creative, and flexible parts of your children reside in the joyful part of their brain.
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Brain Children Creative
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
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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Energy Giving Impact
We limit our success when we mistake the limits of our perception for reality.
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Mistake Perception Reality
You can’t fight fire with fire, or fear with fear.
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Create Fighting Fire Happen
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
Stress is an indicator of our belief in the value and validity of our worries and fears.
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Belief Stress Worry
Change isn’t about what you are stopping… it’s about what you are starting.
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Change Starting Stopping
Becoming critical in the face of criticism, only inspires more criticism.
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Becoming Criticism Faces Inspire
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

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