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Never define yourself in terms of how you are negatively affected by others.

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
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
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
When a loving, meaningful experience is our goal, we must trust an energy that is congruent with that goal as our guide along the way. Bottom line, trust love over fear if love is what you’re after.
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Goal Love Meaningful
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
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
When we take no responsibility for any aspect of our past, we limit our ability to respond in the present and the future.
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Aspects Future Limits Past Responsibility
Want to change your experience of life? Change the problem to the practice field.
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Changing Life Practice Want
The most powerful times in our lives can be the time between times, or life’s transitions that give us the opportunity to choose.
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Giving Opportunity Powerful
One barrier to being a great parent is the mistaken belief that we are raising kids.
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Belief Kids Parents
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
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
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
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
There’s no such thing as a ‘stressful’ situation.
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Decision Situations Stressful
One key to success is knowing the difference between knowledge and wisdom. One is information from the past while the other is the key to the future.
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Differences Key Past

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