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There’s no such thing as a ‘stressful’ situation.

Bill Crawford

You never want to tie your responsibility to another’s irresponsibility.
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Responsibility Ties Want
Never define yourself in terms of how you are negatively affected by others.
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Affected Define Term
Trust is simply a set of expectations about the present and the future. The key is to ensure that these are chosen and evaluated based upon awareness versus fear.
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Awareness Expectations Keys
The most successful form of correction is when the “other” feels informed versus chastised.
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Feels Form Successful
Fear of feeling bad rarely makes one feel good.
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Bad Fear Feel Feelings Good
Never define people or situations in terms of their effect on you, unless you want to give them the power to make you feel that way.
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Giving People Want
Realistic optimism allows us to experience the best until we have to deal with the worst … which often, never comes.
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Optimism Realistic Worst
How do you keep people from jerking your chain? Don’t give your chain to jerks!
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Giving Jerk People
One key to creating a meaningful life, is choosing what we want to feel, and for how long.
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Creating Keys Meaningful
To understand ourself, we must understand our “selves,” or the parts of us that motivate our thoughts, decisions, and behaviors.
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Behavior Decision Self
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
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
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 problem with righteous indignation is that even when you’re right, you’re still left feeling indignant.
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Feelings Problems Righteous
The cooperative, creative, and flexible parts of your children reside in the joyful part of their brain.
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Brain Children Creative
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

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