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The journey of life is both too short and too precious to be sidetracked by guilt trips.

Bill Crawford

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
Family is the place where acceptance and validation are most needed, but often the hardest to find.
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Acceptance Hardest Validation
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
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
The journey of life is both too short and too precious to be sidetracked by guilt trips.
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Guilt Journey Life
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
Images of resentment and revenge only have us spending the precious moments of our lives imagining the ‘other’ as both dangerous and important!
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Important Resentment Revenge
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
Serenity is not just an escape, but a precursor to acceptance, courage, wisdom, and change.
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Acceptance Precursor Serenity
The true measure of our belief in the validity of our values is our willingness to act upon them.
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Belief Validity Willingness
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
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
Sleep is simply a chemical change in our brain and body (melatonin) – It?s not a place we go, it is a state of being that we fall into.
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Brain Change Chemical Fall Sleep
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
Peace of Mind? Don’t leave home (or go home) without it.
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Happened Home Mind Peace
One barrier to being a great parent is the mistaken belief that we are raising kids.
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Belief Kids Parents

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