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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

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
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
Want to change your experience of life? Change the problem to the practice field.
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Changing Life Practice Want
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
Many of us go from being taken care of as children to taking care of others as adults. Shouldn’t there be a time when we learn to take care of ourselves?
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Adults Children Taken
How do you keep people from jerking your chain? Don’t give your chain to jerks!
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Giving Jerk People
The problem with righteous indignation is that even when you’re right, you’re still left feeling indignant.
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Feelings Problems Righteous
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
One barrier to being a great parent is the mistaken belief that we are raising kids.
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Belief Kids Parents
You can’t ‘cope with’ change anymore than you can ‘manage’ stress.
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Change Manage Stress
When we take care of ourselves like we would take care of someone we love, the quality of our living and our giving goes up.
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Care Giving Quality
Holding on to painful images of the past in order to avoid painful experiences in the future serves only to color the present with pain.
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Order Pain Painful Past Serve
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
Problems occur when we tie our peace of mind to another’s state of mind.
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Mind Problem Ties
Serenity is not just an escape, but a precursor to acceptance, courage, wisdom, and change.
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Acceptance Precursor Serenity
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

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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