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

Bill Crawford

Autonomy, Purpose, & Mastery: If you are having difficulty creating the life you want, chances are one or more of these are missing.
BILL CRAWFORD

Creating Missing Want
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.
BILL CRAWFORD

Our Lives Permission Want
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
Mistakes are just ‘mis-takes,’ or an action that we took that missed.
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Actions MIssed Mistakes
It’s not simply what we feel, but what we feed, that determines what we do and how we live.
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Determined Feels Simply
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
Meaning isn’t something we discover, it is what we bring to life, either by choice or by chance.
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Chance Choices Meaning
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
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
To truly be of service to others, we must first serve the server. The ability to bring an enlightened presence to those in need is the ability to light a candle without burning ourselves out.
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Burning Light Needs
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
Change isn’t about what you are stopping… it’s about what you are starting.
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Change Starting Stopping
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
One key to creating a meaningful life, is choosing what we want to feel, and for how long.
BILL CRAWFORD

Creating Keys Meaningful
The true measure of our belief in the validity of our values is our willingness to act upon them.
BILL CRAWFORD

Belief Validity Willingness
How do you keep people from jerking your chain? Don’t give your chain to jerks!
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Giving Jerk People

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

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