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Family is the place where acceptance and validation are most needed, but often the hardest to find.

Bill Crawford

We limit our success when we mistake the limits of our perception for reality.
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Mistake Perception Reality
One key to successful relationships is learning to say “no” without guilt, so that you can say “yes” without resentment.
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Guilt Keys Successful
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
Sometimes knowing what to do is knowing when to stop.
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Issue Knowing Matters Sometimes
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
Living exclusively in the land of the head or the heart will always be a limiting, limited experience. The most successful among us have dual citizenship.
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Heart Land Successful
The most powerful times in our lives can be the time between times, or life’s transitions that give us the opportunity to choose.
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Giving Opportunity Powerful
You can’t ‘cope with’ change anymore than you can ‘manage’ stress.
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Change Manage Stress
You can’t fight fire with fire, or fear with fear.
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Create Fighting Fire Happen
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
You can’t use anxiety to deal with your anxiety it only makes you more anxious.
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Anxiety Anxious Use
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
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
Worry, shame, and fear can’t be the energy with which we deal with food and weight. It only spurs us to eat more food and produce more glucose/sugar which gets stored as fat.
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Energy Shame Spurs Worry
When dealing with problems, seek not to “change” some aspect of your life but instead, choose who you want to become as a path to what you want. Transformation and healing then take place as a process of becoming versus avoiding.
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Healing Path Want
The most successful form of correction is when the “other” feels informed versus chastised.
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Feels Form Successful

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