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One key to successful relationships is learning to say “no” without guilt, so that you can say “yes” without resentment.

Bill Crawford

Sometimes knowing what to do is knowing when to stop.
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Issue Knowing Matters Sometimes
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
Becoming critical in the face of criticism, only inspires more criticism.
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Becoming Criticism Faces Inspire
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
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
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
Want to change your experience of life? Change the problem to the practice field.
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Changing Life Practice Want
How do you keep people from jerking your chain? Don’t give your chain to jerks!
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Giving Jerk People
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
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
Peace of Mind? Don’t leave home (or go home) without it.
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Happened Home Mind Peace
Selfish is caring for ourselves at others’ expense … Self-care is taking care of ourselves so that we can be there for others.
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Care Caring Selfish
When people feel criticized, they almost always defend the behavior you want them to change.
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Behavior People Want
Change isn’t about what you are stopping… it’s about what you are starting.
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Change Starting Stopping
When a loving, meaningful experience is our goal, we must trust an energy that is congruent with that goal as our guide along the way. Bottom line, trust love over fear if love is what you’re after.
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Goal Love Meaningful
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

One key to successful relationships is learning to say “no” without guilt, so that you can say “yes” without resentment.

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