There’s no such thing as a ‘stressful’ situation.
BILL CRAWFORDYou can’t fight fire with fire, or fear with fear.
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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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The cooperative, creative, and flexible parts of your children reside in the joyful part of their brain.
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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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You can’t fight fire with fire, or fear with fear.
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Mistakes are just ‘mis-takes,’ or an action that we took that missed.
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Our past is not, as some fear, a series of events carved in stone that we must carry around for the rest of our lives… but a kaleidoscope of experiences that, when viewed through different lenses, can ‘color’ (change) how we see our present and future.
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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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If you want to change your life, you must change your mind and change your brain? on purpose.
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People have the absolute right to be just as unhappy and miserable as they want to be.
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Serenity is not just an escape, but a precursor to acceptance, courage, wisdom, and change.
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When faced with conflicting thoughts and emotions, we must decide what to trust, what we fear, or what we know. What’s important is that this decision be made by the knowledgeable versus the anxious part of who we are.
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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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There are two ways to make someone important in our lives … we can either love them or hate them.
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Never define yourself in terms of how you are negatively affected by others.
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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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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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Sometimes our ability to accept what we can’t change is tied to our willingness to change what we can.
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Want to change your experience of life? Change the problem to the practice field.
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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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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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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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Perspective is what allows us to step back and see the entire forest instead of just the same old tree we keep running into again and again.
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What we feed our mind becomes the material with which we build our life.
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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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You can’t use anxiety to deal with your anxiety it only makes you more anxious.
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The only time a mistake becomes a failure is when we look for someone to blame.
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