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One barrier to being a great parent is the mistaken belief that we are raising kids.

Bill Crawford

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
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 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 people feel criticized, they almost always defend the behavior you want them to change.
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Behavior People Want
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
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
Never make your highest purpose, or the most important thing in your life something that is outside of your control.
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Highest Important Purpose Sometimes
When dealing with problems, seek not to “change” some aspect of your life but instead, choose who you want to become as a path to what you want. Transformation and healing then take place as a process of becoming versus avoiding.
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Healing Path Want
You can’t ‘cope with’ change anymore than you can ‘manage’ stress.
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Change Manage Stress
The cooperative, creative, and flexible parts of your children reside in the joyful part of their brain.
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Brain Children Creative
Never define yourself in terms of how you are negatively affected by others.
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Affected Define Term
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
The act of giving is simply a behavior, and the gift merely a symbol. It is the energy behind both that will determine their impact on our lives.
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Energy Giving Impact
How do you keep people from jerking your chain? Don’t give your chain to jerks!
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Giving Jerk People
We limit our success when we mistake the limits of our perception for reality.
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Mistake Perception Reality
Sometimes knowing what to do is knowing when to stop.
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Issue Knowing Matters Sometimes

One barrier to being a great parent is the mistaken belief that we are raising kids.

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