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One barrier to being a great parent is the mistaken belief that we are raising kids.

Bill Crawford

When we engage people positively, we create a receptive platform for the ideas and information we wish to communicate.
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Ideas People Wish
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
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 past exists not as a factual recounting of what happened, but as an experience that we are constantly recreating in our mind which means we CAN change the past!
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Constantly Mean Mind Past
Serenity is not just an escape, but a precursor to acceptance, courage, wisdom, and change.
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Acceptance Precursor Serenity
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
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
There are two ways to make someone important in our lives … we can either love them or hate them.
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Hate Important Two
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
A process for discernment: God is my ultimate source of truth and wisdom, and dwells forever at the center of my being. Therefore, any thought, emotion, or action that takes me further from my center can be neither truthful, nor wise.
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Action Forever Wise
When our purpose becomes avoidance, our life becomes a void.
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Lives Our Purpose Void
Nothing is meaningless it’s how we assign meaning to the past that determines how we experience the present, and future.
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Determined Meaningless Past
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
Nothing destroys a relationship quicker than our fears of inadequacy and loss.
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Inadequacy Loss Nothing Relationship
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
There’s no such thing as a ‘stressful’ situation.
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Decision Situations Stressful

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