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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.

Bill Crawford

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
In order to become more influential with those who are resistant to our point of view, we must be willing to start with what is influencing them.
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Influential Order Views
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
Becoming critical in the face of criticism, only inspires more criticism.
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Becoming Criticism Faces Inspire
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
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
To find the true cause of how you think and feel, find the ‘sponsoring thought’ that created the interpretation that created your experience of life.
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Causes Interpretation Thinking
The cooperative, creative, and flexible parts of your children reside in the joyful part of their brain.
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Brain Children Creative
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
Serenity is not just an escape, but a precursor to acceptance, courage, wisdom, and change.
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Acceptance Precursor Serenity
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
Creating a meaningful life has less to do with how we feel about our past than what we do about our future.
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Creating Meaningful Past
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
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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