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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.

Bill Crawford

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
To influence others, we must know what is influencing them… and they must know that we get it.
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Influence Knows Others People
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
Perspective is what allows us to step back and see the entire forest instead of just the same old tree we keep running into again and again.
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Perspective Running Tree
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
Just because we have a thought, doesn’t mean it is a thought worth having.
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Having Mean Though Worth
Problems occur when we tie our peace of mind to another’s state of mind.
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Mind Problem Ties
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 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
Stress is an indicator of our belief in the value and validity of our worries and fears.
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Belief Stress Worry
Trust is simply a set of expectations about the present and the future. The key is to ensure that these are chosen and evaluated based upon awareness versus fear.
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Awareness Expectations Keys
When our purpose becomes avoidance, our life becomes a void.
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Lives Our Purpose Void
Creating a meaningful life has less to do with how we feel about our past than what we do about our future.
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Creating Meaningful Past
We limit our success when we mistake the limits of our perception for reality.
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Mistake Perception Reality
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
Sometimes our ability to accept what we can’t change is tied to our willingness to change what we can.
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Accepting Change Sometimes Willingness
You can’t use anxiety to deal with your anxiety it only makes you more anxious.
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Anxiety Anxious Use
Peace of Mind? Don’t leave home (or go home) without it.
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Happened Home Mind Peace
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
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 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 truly be of service to others, we must first serve the server. The ability to bring an enlightened presence to those in need is the ability to light a candle without burning ourselves out.
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Burning Light Needs
The journey of life is both too short and too precious to be sidetracked by guilt trips.
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Guilt Journey Life
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
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
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
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

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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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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