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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.

Bill Crawford

How do you keep people from jerking your chain? Don’t give your chain to jerks!
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Giving Jerk People
Never define yourself in terms of how you are negatively affected by others.
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Affected Define Term
When a loving, meaningful experience is our goal, we must trust an energy that is congruent with that goal as our guide along the way. Bottom line, trust love over fear if love is what you’re after.
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Goal Love Meaningful
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
When we engage people positively, we create a receptive platform for the ideas and information we wish to communicate.
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Ideas People Wish
Family is the place where acceptance and validation are most needed, but often the hardest to find.
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Acceptance Hardest Validation
The cooperative, creative, and flexible parts of your children reside in the joyful part of their brain.
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Brain Children Creative
Stress is an indicator of our belief in the value and validity of our worries and fears.
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Belief Stress Worry
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
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
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
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
Children don’t know that they are lovable until they are loved. They need to see it in our eyes before they can accept it in their hearts.
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Children Eye Heart
True ‘magic’ is simply the ability to transcend what seems to be and, thus, transform one’s experience. Maybe we could all use a little ‘Harry Potter’ in our lives.
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Magic Potters Use
Sometimes knowing what to do is knowing when to stop.
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Issue Knowing Matters Sometimes
You can’t ‘cope with’ change anymore than you can ‘manage’ stress.
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Change Manage Stress

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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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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