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The cooperative, creative, and flexible parts of your children reside in the joyful part of their brain.

Bill Crawford

A meaningful life is composed of a series of meaningful moments. If this is what we want, then the ability to infuse each moment with meaning would seem to be a skill worth practicing.
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Meaningful Skills Want
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
The problem with lethargy is that doing nothing validates the fear that nothing can be done.
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Doing Done Nothing Problem
You can’t fight fire with fire, or fear with fear.
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Create Fighting Fire Happen
Want to change your experience of life? Change the problem to the practice field.
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Changing Life Practice Want
True ‘magic’ is simply the ability to transcend what seems to be and, thus, transform one’s experience. Maybe we could all use a little ‘Harry Potter’ in our lives.
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Magic Potters Use
Fear of feeling bad rarely makes one feel good.
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Bad Fear Feel Feelings Good
You can’t use anxiety to deal with your anxiety it only makes you more anxious.
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Anxiety Anxious Use
What we feed our mind becomes the material with which we build our life.
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Lives Material Mind
You can’t ‘cope with’ change anymore than you can ‘manage’ stress.
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Change Manage Stress
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 a loving, meaningful experience is our goal, we must trust an energy that is congruent with that goal as our guide along the way. Bottom line, trust love over fear if love is what you’re after.
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Goal Love Meaningful
How do you keep people from jerking your chain? Don’t give your chain to jerks!
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Giving Jerk People
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
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
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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