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What we feed our mind becomes the material with which we build our life.

Bill Crawford

When we take care of ourselves like we would take care of someone we love, the quality of our living and our giving goes up.
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Care Giving Quality
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
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
The most successful form of correction is when the “other” feels informed versus chastised.
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Feels Form Successful
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 faced with conflicting thoughts and emotions, we must decide what to trust, what we fear, or what we know. What’s important is that this decision be made by the knowledgeable versus the anxious part of who we are.
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Decision Faced Important
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
It’s not simply what we feel, but what we feed, that determines what we do and how we live.
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Determined Feels Simply
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
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
Change isn’t about what you are stopping… it’s about what you are starting.
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Change Starting Stopping
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
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
You never want to tie your responsibility to another’s irresponsibility.
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Responsibility Ties Want
You can’t ‘cope with’ change anymore than you can ‘manage’ stress.
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Change Manage Stress
How do you keep people from jerking your chain? Don’t give your chain to jerks!
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Giving Jerk People

What we feed our mind becomes the material with which we build our life.

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