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

Bill Crawford

There’s no such thing as a ‘stressful’ situation.
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Decision Situations Stressful
The journey of life is both too short and too precious to be sidetracked by guilt trips.
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Guilt Journey Life
When people feel criticized, they almost always defend the behavior you want them to change.
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Behavior People Want
Family is the place where acceptance and validation are most needed, but often the hardest to find.
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Acceptance Hardest Validation
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
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
Want to change your experience of life? Change the problem to the practice field.
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Changing Life Practice Want
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
Never define yourself in terms of how you are negatively affected by others.
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Affected Define Term
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
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
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
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
Nothing destroys a relationship quicker than our fears of inadequacy and loss.
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Inadequacy Loss Nothing Relationship
Nothing is meaningless it’s how we assign meaning to the past that determines how we experience the present, and future.
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Determined Meaningless Past
Sometimes knowing what to do is knowing when to stop.
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Issue Knowing Matters Sometimes

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