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Images of resentment and revenge only have us spending the precious moments of our lives imagining the ‘other’ as both dangerous and important!

Bill Crawford

Never define people or situations in terms of their effect on you, unless you want to give them the power to make you feel that way.
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Giving People Want
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
What we feed our mind becomes the material with which we build our life.
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Lives Material Mind
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
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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Meaningful Skills Want
Just because we have a thought, doesn’t mean it is a thought worth having.
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Having Mean Though Worth
You can’t use anxiety to deal with your anxiety it only makes you more anxious.
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Anxiety Anxious Use
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
When stress and anxiety have your system stuck in a brainstem loop? Reboot. It’s I.T. for life!
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Anxiety Stress Stuck
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
Stress is an indicator of our belief in the value and validity of our worries and fears.
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Belief Stress Worry
Becoming critical in the face of criticism, only inspires more criticism.
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Becoming Criticism Faces Inspire
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
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 never want to tie your responsibility to another’s irresponsibility.
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Responsibility Ties Want
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
We can’t always choose how we feel. We can, however, choose what we do about it, which ironically can change how we feel!
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Choose Feels Ironically
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
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 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
Worry, shame, and fear can’t be the energy with which we deal with food and weight. It only spurs us to eat more food and produce more glucose/sugar which gets stored as fat.
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Energy Shame Spurs Worry
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
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
A process for discernment: God is my ultimate source of truth and wisdom, and dwells forever at the center of my being. Therefore, any thought, emotion, or action that takes me further from my center can be neither truthful, nor wise.
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Action Forever Wise
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
Fear of feeling bad rarely makes one feel good.
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Bad Fear Feel Feelings Good

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