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In our lives, we can either be a reflection of the world around us . . . or a beam that enlightens the lives of others.

Bill Crawford

Serenity is not just an escape, but a precursor to acceptance, courage, wisdom, and change.
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Acceptance Precursor Serenity
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
What we feed our mind becomes the material with which we build our life.
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Lives Material Mind
There are two ways to make someone important in our lives … we can either love them or hate them.
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Hate Important Two
You can’t fight fire with fire, or fear with fear.
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Create Fighting Fire Happen
You can’t use anxiety to deal with your anxiety it only makes you more anxious.
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Anxiety Anxious Use
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
The cooperative, creative, and flexible parts of your children reside in the joyful part of their brain.
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Brain Children Creative
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 journey of life is both too short and too precious to be sidetracked by guilt trips.
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Guilt Journey Life
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
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
To change any aspect of our life we must be willing to change our mind… Unfortunately, that is the one thing most people are the least willing to do.
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Aspect Mind People
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
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
The most successful form of correction is when the “other” feels informed versus chastised.
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Feels Form 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
One barrier to being a great parent is the mistaken belief that we are raising kids.
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Belief Kids Parents
Realistic optimism allows us to experience the best until we have to deal with the worst … which often, never comes.
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Optimism Realistic Worst
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
Family is the place where acceptance and validation are most needed, but often the hardest to find.
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Acceptance Hardest Validation
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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Decision Faced Important
When our purpose becomes avoidance, our life becomes a void.
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Lives Our Purpose Void
When we take care of ourselves like we would take care of someone we love, the quality of our living and our giving goes up.
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Care Giving Quality
Freedom isn’t about having permission to do whatever we want… it’s about having the courage to do whatever fills our life with meaning.
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Our Lives Permission Want
Want to change your experience of life? Change the problem to the practice field.
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Changing Life Practice Want
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

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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