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Selfish is caring for ourselves at others’ expense … Self-care is taking care of ourselves so that we can be there for others.

Bill Crawford

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
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
Problems occur when we tie our peace of mind to another’s state of mind.
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Mind Problem Ties
Family is the place where acceptance and validation are most needed, but often the hardest to find.
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Acceptance Hardest Validation
There are two ways to look at most problems… ‘Oh Crap!’ or, ‘Good Information!,’ and our choice will give us good information on how to deal with problems in the future.
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Choices Giving Two
Peace of Mind? Don’t leave home (or go home) without it.
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Happened Home Mind Peace
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
Fear of feeling bad rarely makes one feel good.
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Bad Fear Feel Feelings Good
The most powerful times in our lives can be the time between times, or life’s transitions that give us the opportunity to choose.
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Giving Opportunity Powerful
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
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
Stress is an indicator of our belief in the value and validity of our worries and fears.
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Belief Stress Worry
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
Holding on to painful images of the past in order to avoid painful experiences in the future serves only to color the present with pain.
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Order Pain Painful Past Serve
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
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

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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