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Just because we have a thought, doesn’t mean it is a thought worth having.

Bill Crawford

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
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
Stress is an indicator of our belief in the value and validity of our worries and fears.
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Belief Stress Worry
Mistakes are just ‘mis-takes,’ or an action that we took that missed.
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Actions MIssed Mistakes
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
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
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
The past exists not as a factual recounting of what happened, but as an experience that we are constantly recreating in our mind which means we CAN change the past!
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Constantly Mean Mind Past
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
The most successful form of correction is when the “other” feels informed versus chastised.
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Feels Form Successful
When our purpose becomes avoidance, our life becomes a void.
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Lives Our Purpose Void
The journey of life is both too short and too precious to be sidetracked by guilt trips.
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Guilt Journey Life
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
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
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
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

Just because we have a thought, doesn’t mean it is a thought worth having.

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