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

Bill Crawford

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
Family is the place where acceptance and validation are most needed, but often the hardest to find.
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Acceptance Hardest Validation
To find the true cause of how you think and feel, find the ‘sponsoring thought’ that created the interpretation that created your experience of life.
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Causes Interpretation Thinking
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Children don’t know that they are lovable until they are loved. They need to see it in our eyes before they can accept it in their hearts.
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Children Eye Heart
You can’t fight fire with fire, or fear with fear.
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Create Fighting Fire Happen
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
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
In our lives, we can either be a reflection of the world around us . . . or a beam that enlightens the lives of others.
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Enlightening Reflection World
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
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
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
Never define yourself in terms of how you are negatively affected by others.
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Affected Define Term
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
Peace of Mind? Don’t leave home (or go home) without it.
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Happened Home Mind Peace
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
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
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
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
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
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

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