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

Bill Crawford

Realistic optimism allows us to experience the best until we have to deal with the worst … which often, never comes.
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Optimism Realistic Worst
You can’t ‘cope with’ change anymore than you can ‘manage’ stress.
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Change Manage Stress
Autonomy, Purpose, & Mastery: If you are having difficulty creating the life you want, chances are one or more of these are missing.
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Creating Missing Want
One barrier to being a great parent is the mistaken belief that we are raising kids.
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Belief Kids Parents
Living exclusively in the land of the head or the heart will always be a limiting, limited experience. The most successful among us have dual citizenship.
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Heart Land Successful
People have the absolute right to be just as unhappy and miserable as they want to be.
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Miserable People Unhappy Want
The journey of life is both too short and too precious to be sidetracked by guilt trips.
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Guilt Journey Life
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
Serenity is not just an escape, but a precursor to acceptance, courage, wisdom, and change.
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Acceptance Precursor Serenity
Never make your highest purpose, or the most important thing in your life something that is outside of your control.
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Highest Important Purpose Sometimes
Want to change your experience of life? Change the problem to the practice field.
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Changing Life Practice Want
How do you keep people from jerking your chain? Don’t give your chain to jerks!
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Giving Jerk People
Sometimes knowing what to do is knowing when to stop.
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Issue Knowing Matters Sometimes
You can’t use anxiety to deal with your anxiety it only makes you more anxious.
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Anxiety Anxious Use
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
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

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

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