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

Bill Crawford

To change any aspect of our life we must be willing to change our mind… Unfortunately, that is the one thing most people are the least willing to do.
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Aspect Mind People
Family is the place where acceptance and validation are most needed, but often the hardest to find.
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Acceptance Hardest Validation
When people feel criticized, they almost always defend the behavior you want them to change.
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Behavior People Want
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
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
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
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
How do you keep people from jerking your chain? Don’t give your chain to jerks!
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Giving Jerk People
The only time a mistake becomes a failure is when we look for someone to blame.
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Blame Looks Mistakes
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
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
When faced with conflicting thoughts and emotions, we must decide what to trust, what we fear, or what we know. What’s important is that this decision be made by the knowledgeable versus the anxious part of who we are.
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Decision Faced Important
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
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
Regardless of what is being discussed . . . the issue is never more important than the quality of the interaction.
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Important Issues Quality
Never define yourself in terms of how you are negatively affected by others.
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Affected Define Term

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