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

Bill Crawford

Trust is simply a set of expectations about the present and the future. The key is to ensure that these are chosen and evaluated based upon awareness versus fear.
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Awareness Expectations Keys
Peace of Mind? Don’t leave home (or go home) without it.
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Happened Home Mind Peace
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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Enlightening Reflection World
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
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
A meaningful life is composed of a series of meaningful moments. If this is what we want, then the ability to infuse each moment with meaning would seem to be a skill worth practicing.
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Meaningful Skills Want
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
What we feed our mind becomes the material with which we build our life.
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Lives Material Mind
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
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
Sometimes knowing what to do is knowing when to stop.
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Issue Knowing Matters Sometimes
Meaning isn’t something we discover, it is what we bring to life, either by choice or by chance.
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Chance Choices Meaning
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
It’s not simply what we feel, but what we feed, that determines what we do and how we live.
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Determined Feels Simply
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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Color Events Past
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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Perspective Running Tree

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

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