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You never want to tie your responsibility to another’s irresponsibility.

Bill Crawford

The most successful form of correction is when the “other” feels informed versus chastised.
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Feels Form Successful
One barrier to being a great parent is the mistaken belief that we are raising kids.
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Belief Kids Parents
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 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
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
Change isn’t about what you are stopping… it’s about what you are starting.
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Change Starting Stopping
How do you keep people from jerking your chain? Don’t give your chain to jerks!
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Giving Jerk People
Never define yourself in terms of how you are negatively affected by others.
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Affected Define Term
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
The difference between self-confidence and conceit is as simple as love and fear. Jesus was self-confident … Hitler was afraid.
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Confidence Jesus Self Simple
There’s no such thing as a ‘stressful’ situation.
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Decision Situations Stressful
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
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
We can’t always choose how we feel. We can, however, choose what we do about it, which ironically can change how we feel!
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Choose Feels Ironically
When our purpose becomes avoidance, our life becomes a void.
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Lives Our Purpose Void
To influence others, we must know what is influencing them… and they must know that we get it.
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Influence Knows Others People
Want to change your experience of life? Change the problem to the practice field.
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Changing Life Practice Want
When people feel criticized, they almost always defend the behavior you want them to change.
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Behavior People Want
When dealing with problems, seek not to “change” some aspect of your life but instead, choose who you want to become as a path to what you want. Transformation and healing then take place as a process of becoming versus avoiding.
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Healing Path 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
Sometimes our ability to accept what we can’t change is tied to our willingness to change what we can.
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Accepting Change Sometimes Willingness
What we feed our mind becomes the material with which we build our life.
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Lives Material Mind
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
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
Diversity, or the state of being different, isn’t the same as inclusion. One is a description of what is, while the other describes a style of interaction essential to effective teams and organizations.
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Diversity Organization Team
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
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

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