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

Bill Crawford

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
Family is the place where acceptance and validation are most needed, but often the hardest to find.
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Acceptance Hardest Validation
How do you keep people from jerking your chain? Don’t give your chain to jerks!
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Giving Jerk People
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
To find the true cause of how you think and feel, find the ‘sponsoring thought’ that created the interpretation that created your experience of life.
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Causes Interpretation Thinking
Nothing destroys a relationship quicker than our fears of inadequacy and loss.
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Inadequacy Loss Nothing Relationship
When people feel criticized, they almost always defend the behavior you want them to change.
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Behavior People Want
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
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
When we take no responsibility for any aspect of our past, we limit our ability to respond in the present and the future.
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Aspects Future Limits Past Responsibility
Change isn’t always easy, but with purposeful practice, any old habit can be replaced with a way of being we would recommend to those we love.
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Old Habits Practice Way
The only time a mistake becomes a failure is when we look for someone to blame.
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Blame Looks Mistakes
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
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
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
Serenity is not just an escape, but a precursor to acceptance, courage, wisdom, and change.
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Acceptance Precursor Serenity
What we feed our mind becomes the material with which we build our life.
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Lives Material Mind
You can’t use anxiety to deal with your anxiety it only makes you more anxious.
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Anxiety Anxious Use
There’s no such thing as a ‘stressful’ situation.
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Decision Situations Stressful
Nothing is meaningless it’s how we assign meaning to the past that determines how we experience the present, and future.
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Determined Meaningless Past
Becoming critical in the face of criticism, only inspires more criticism.
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Becoming Criticism Faces Inspire
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
People have the absolute right to be just as unhappy and miserable as they want to be.
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Miserable People Unhappy Want
The problem with lethargy is that doing nothing validates the fear that nothing can be done.
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Doing Done Nothing Problem
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
There are only three things we ‘have to’ do in this world we have to be born, we have to die, and we have to live until we die. Everything else is a choice!
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Choices Three World
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

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