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The key to being with family is to engage with those we love in a way we would teach to those we love.

Bill Crawford

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
There are two ways to make someone important in our lives … we can either love them or hate them.
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Hate Important Two
Family is the place where acceptance and validation are most needed, but often the hardest to find.
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Acceptance Hardest Validation
When people feel criticized, they almost always defend the behavior you want them to change.
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Behavior People Want
One key to success is knowing the difference between knowledge and wisdom. One is information from the past while the other is the key to the future.
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Differences Key Past
Serenity is not just an escape, but a precursor to acceptance, courage, wisdom, and change.
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Acceptance Precursor Serenity
The difference between self-confidence and conceit is as simple as love and fear. Jesus was self-confident … Hitler was afraid.
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Confidence Jesus Self Simple
Selfish is caring for ourselves at others’ expense … Self-care is taking care of ourselves so that we can be there for others.
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Care Caring Selfish
When our purpose becomes avoidance, our life becomes a void.
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Lives Our Purpose Void
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
Stress is an indicator of our belief in the value and validity of our worries and fears.
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Belief Stress Worry
You can’t fight fire with fire, or fear with fear.
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Create Fighting Fire Happen
Many people would rather be certain of their worries and fears, than risk the uncertainty of hope and optimism.
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Optimism People Uncertainty Worry
But if your work is your art, a personal reflection of who you are, the only person who can do that better than you, is a future you.
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Art Better Future Persons Reflection
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
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

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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