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

Bill Crawford

Living exclusively in the land of the head or the heart will always be a limiting, limited experience. The most successful among us have dual citizenship.
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Heart Land Successful
Leaders should interact with everyone in their organization as if the interaction is being recorded and will be used as a training film on how to treat colleagues, coworkers, and customers.
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Leader Organization Training
You never want to tie your responsibility to another’s irresponsibility.
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Responsibility Ties 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
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
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
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
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
Problems occur when we tie our peace of mind to another’s state of mind.
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Mind Problem Ties
Peace of Mind? Don’t leave home (or go home) without it.
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Happened Home Mind Peace
People have the absolute right to be just as unhappy and miserable as they want to be.
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Miserable People Unhappy Want
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
Life is not a means to an end but a series of experiences. Are you creating your series ‘on purpose’ ?
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Creating Mean Purpose
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
When people feel criticized, they almost always defend the behavior you want them to change.
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Behavior People Want
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
To understand ourself, we must understand our “selves,” or the parts of us that motivate our thoughts, decisions, and behaviors.
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Behavior Decision Self
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
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
Diversity, or the state of being different, isn’t the same as inclusion. One is a description of what is, while the other describes a style of interaction essential to effective teams and organizations.
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Diversity Organization Team
Just because we have a thought, doesn’t mean it is a thought worth having.
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Having Mean Though Worth
Children don’t know that they are lovable until they are loved. They need to see it in our eyes before they can accept it in their hearts.
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Children Eye Heart
Want to change your experience of life? Change the problem to the practice field.
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Changing Life Practice Want
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
The problem with lethargy is that doing nothing validates the fear that nothing can be done.
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Doing Done Nothing Problem
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

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