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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

You can’t use anxiety to deal with your anxiety it only makes you more anxious.
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Anxiety Anxious Use
One key to creating a meaningful life, is choosing what we want to feel, and for how long.
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Creating Keys 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
When people feel criticized, they almost always defend the behavior you want them to change.
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Behavior People Want
Problems occur when we tie our peace of mind to another’s state of mind.
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Mind Problem Ties
Becoming critical in the face of criticism, only inspires more criticism.
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Becoming Criticism Faces Inspire
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
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
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
One key to successful relationships is learning to say “no” without guilt, so that you can say “yes” without resentment.
BILL CRAWFORD

Guilt Keys Successful
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
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
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
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
Mistakes are just ‘mis-takes,’ or an action that we took that missed.
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Actions MIssed Mistakes
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

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