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Sometimes our ability to accept what we can’t change is tied to our willingness to change what we can.

Bill Crawford

Freedom isn’t about having permission to do whatever we want… it’s about having the courage to do whatever fills our life with meaning.
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Our Lives Permission Want
Problems occur when we tie our peace of mind to another’s state of mind.
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Mind Problem Ties
Mistakes are just ‘mis-takes,’ or an action that we took that missed.
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Actions MIssed Mistakes
The journey of life is both too short and too precious to be sidetracked by guilt trips.
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Guilt Journey Life
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
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
Never define yourself in terms of how you are negatively affected by others.
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Affected Define Term
Family is the place where acceptance and validation are most needed, but often the hardest to find.
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Acceptance Hardest Validation
One barrier to being a great parent is the mistaken belief that we are raising kids.
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Belief Kids Parents
Our past is not, as some fear, a series of events carved in stone that we must carry around for the rest of our lives… but a kaleidoscope of experiences that, when viewed through different lenses, can ‘color’ (change) how we see our present and future.
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Color Events Past
Fear of feeling bad rarely makes one feel good.
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Bad Fear Feel Feelings Good
The problem with lethargy is that doing nothing validates the fear that nothing can be done.
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Doing Done Nothing Problem
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
When stress and anxiety have your system stuck in a brainstem loop? Reboot. It’s I.T. for life!
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Anxiety Stress Stuck
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
When people feel criticized, they almost always defend the behavior you want them to change.
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Behavior People Want

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