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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!

Bill Crawford

The most successful form of correction is when the “other” feels informed versus chastised.
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Feels Form Successful
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
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
Many people would rather be certain of their worries and fears, than risk the uncertainty of hope and optimism.
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Optimism People Uncertainty Worry
When we engage people positively, we create a receptive platform for the ideas and information we wish to communicate.
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Ideas People Wish
Change isn’t about what you are stopping… it’s about what you are starting.
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Change Starting Stopping
There are only three things we ‘have to’ do in this world we have to be born, we have to die, and we have to live until we die. Everything else is a choice!
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Choices Three World
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
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
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
Mistakes are just ‘mis-takes,’ or an action that we took that missed.
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Actions MIssed Mistakes
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
Becoming critical in the face of criticism, only inspires more criticism.
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Becoming Criticism Faces Inspire
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
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

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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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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