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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
The key to being with family is to engage with those we love in a way we would teach to those we love.
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Keys Teach Way
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
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 change any aspect of our life we must be willing to change our mind… Unfortunately, that is the one thing most people are the least willing to do.
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Aspect Mind People
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
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
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
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
Sleep is simply a chemical change in our brain and body (melatonin) – It?s not a place we go, it is a state of being that we fall into.
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Brain Change Chemical Fall Sleep
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 journey of life is both too short and too precious to be sidetracked by guilt trips.
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Guilt Journey Life
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 true measure of our belief in the validity of our values is our willingness to act upon them.
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Belief Validity Willingness
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
Regardless of the problem, as long as our solution requires someone else to change, we will never know the power and promise of self-determination.
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Determination Long Self

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

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