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To understand ourself, we must understand our “selves,” or the parts of us that motivate our thoughts, decisions, and behaviors.

Bill Crawford

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
The key to being with family is to engage with those we love in a way we would teach to those we love.
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Keys Teach Way
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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Kids Quality Teaching
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
You never want to tie your responsibility to another’s irresponsibility.
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Responsibility Ties Want
Just because we have a thought, doesn’t mean it is a thought worth having.
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Having Mean Though Worth
There’s no such thing as a ‘stressful’ situation.
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Decision Situations Stressful
Mistakes are just ‘mis-takes,’ or an action that we took that missed.
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Actions MIssed Mistakes
Never define yourself in terms of how you are negatively affected by others.
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Affected Define Term
You can’t use anxiety to deal with your anxiety it only makes you more anxious.
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Anxiety Anxious Use
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal while blaming our misery on the person who started the fire.
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Coal Fire Hot
How do you keep people from jerking your chain? Don’t give your chain to jerks!
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Giving Jerk People
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
The past exists not as a factual recounting of what happened, but as an experience that we are constantly recreating in our mind which means we CAN change the past!
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Constantly Mean Mind Past
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
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

To understand ourself, we must understand our “selves,” or the parts of us that motivate our thoughts, decisions, and behaviors.

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