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The journey of life is both too short and too precious to be sidetracked by guilt trips.

Bill Crawford

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
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
Family is the place where acceptance and validation are most needed, but often the hardest to find.
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Acceptance Hardest Validation
The true measure of our belief in the validity of our values is our willingness to act upon them.
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Belief Validity Willingness
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
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
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
Change isn’t always easy, but with purposeful practice, any old habit can be replaced with a way of being we would recommend to those we love.
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Old Habits Practice Way
There’s no such thing as a ‘stressful’ situation.
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Decision Situations Stressful
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
Mistakes are just ‘mis-takes,’ or an action that we took that missed.
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Actions MIssed Mistakes
Peace of Mind? Don’t leave home (or go home) without it.
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Happened Home Mind Peace
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
Sometimes knowing what to do is knowing when to stop.
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Issue Knowing Matters Sometimes
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 what is being discussed . . . the issue is never more important than the quality of the interaction.
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Important Issues Quality

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