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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?

Bill Crawford

True ‘magic’ is simply the ability to transcend what seems to be and, thus, transform one’s experience. Maybe we could all use a little ‘Harry Potter’ in our lives.
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Magic Potters Use
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
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
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
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
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
The problem with righteous indignation is that even when you’re right, you’re still left feeling indignant.
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Feelings Problems Righteous
The most successful form of correction is when the “other” feels informed versus chastised.
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Feels Form Successful
Sometimes knowing what to do is knowing when to stop.
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Issue Knowing Matters Sometimes
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
Images of resentment and revenge only have us spending the precious moments of our lives imagining the ‘other’ as both dangerous and important!
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Important Resentment Revenge
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
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
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
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
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
The only time a mistake becomes a failure is when we look for someone to blame.
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Blame Looks Mistakes
We limit our success when we mistake the limits of our perception for reality.
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Mistake Perception Reality
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
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
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
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
Change isn’t about what you are stopping… it’s about what you are starting.
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Change Starting Stopping
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
The cooperative, creative, and flexible parts of your children reside in the joyful part of their brain.
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Brain Children Creative
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
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

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