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One key to creating a meaningful life, is choosing what we want to feel, and for how long.

Bill Crawford

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
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
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
One key to successful relationships is learning to say “no” without guilt, so that you can say “yes” without resentment.
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Guilt Keys Successful
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
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
Family is the place where acceptance and validation are most needed, but often the hardest to find.
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Acceptance Hardest Validation
Becoming critical in the face of criticism, only inspires more criticism.
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Becoming Criticism Faces Inspire
Meaning isn’t something we discover, it is what we bring to life, either by choice or by chance.
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Chance Choices Meaning
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 difference between self-confidence and conceit is as simple as love and fear. Jesus was self-confident … Hitler was afraid.
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Confidence Jesus Self Simple
To spank or not to spank isn’t the question the question is whether whether we are teaching a quality we want our kids to have as adults?
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Kids Quality Teaching
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
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
The journey of life is both too short and too precious to be sidetracked by guilt trips.
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Guilt Journey Life
Just because we have a thought, doesn’t mean it is a thought worth having.
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Having Mean Though Worth
In our lives, we can either be a reflection of the world around us . . . or a beam that enlightens the lives of others.
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Enlightening Reflection World
One barrier to being a great parent is the mistaken belief that we are raising kids.
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Belief Kids Parents
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
You can’t fight fire with fire, or fear with fear.
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Create Fighting Fire Happen
You never want to tie your responsibility to another’s irresponsibility.
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Responsibility Ties Want
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
You can’t ‘cope with’ change anymore than you can ‘manage’ stress.
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Change Manage Stress
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
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
When our purpose becomes avoidance, our life becomes a void.
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Lives Our Purpose Void
Regardless of what is being discussed . . . the issue is never more important than the quality of the interaction.
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Important Issues Quality

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