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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

Nothing destroys a relationship quicker than our fears of inadequacy and loss.
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Inadequacy Loss Nothing Relationship
Serenity is not just an escape, but a precursor to acceptance, courage, wisdom, and change.
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Acceptance Precursor Serenity
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
Life is not a means to an end but a series of experiences. Are you creating your series ‘on purpose’ ?
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Creating Mean Purpose
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
You can’t use anxiety to deal with your anxiety it only makes you more anxious.
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Anxiety Anxious Use
Change isn’t about what you are stopping… it’s about what you are starting.
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Change Starting Stopping
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
When faced with conflicting thoughts and emotions, we must decide what to trust, what we fear, or what we know. What’s important is that this decision be made by the knowledgeable versus the anxious part of who we are.
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Decision Faced Important
Fear of feeling bad rarely makes one feel good.
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Bad Fear Feel Feelings Good
The cooperative, creative, and flexible parts of your children reside in the joyful part of their brain.
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Brain Children Creative
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
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
The problem with lethargy is that doing nothing validates the fear that nothing can be done.
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Doing Done Nothing Problem
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
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

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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