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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

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 the problem, as long as our solution requires someone else to change, we will never know the power and promise of self-determination.
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Determination Long Self
One key to creating a meaningful life, is choosing what we want to feel, and for how long.
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Creating Keys Meaningful
Change isn’t about what you are stopping… it’s about what you are starting.
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Change Starting Stopping
Sometimes knowing what to do is knowing when to stop.
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Issue Knowing Matters Sometimes
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
The act of giving is simply a behavior, and the gift merely a symbol. It is the energy behind both that will determine their impact on our lives.
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Energy Giving Impact
The problem with righteous indignation is that even when you’re right, you’re still left feeling indignant.
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Feelings Problems Righteous
When stress and anxiety have your system stuck in a brainstem loop? Reboot. It’s I.T. for life!
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Anxiety Stress Stuck
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
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
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
Nothing destroys a relationship quicker than our fears of inadequacy and loss.
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Inadequacy Loss Nothing Relationship
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
If you want to change your life, you must change your mind and change your brain? on purpose.
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Brain Mind Purpose
Family is the place where acceptance and validation are most needed, but often the hardest to find.
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Acceptance Hardest Validation
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
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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Keys Teach Way
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
Problems occur when we tie our peace of mind to another’s state of mind.
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Mind Problem Ties
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
One barrier to being a great parent is the mistaken belief that we are raising kids.
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Belief Kids Parents
There are only three things we ‘have to’ do in this world we have to be born, we have to die, and we have to live until we die. Everything else is a choice!
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Choices Three World
When our purpose becomes avoidance, our life becomes a void.
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Lives Our Purpose Void
You can’t use anxiety to deal with your anxiety it only makes you more anxious.
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Anxiety Anxious Use
We limit our success when we mistake the limits of our perception for reality.
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Mistake Perception Reality
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

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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