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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

To understand ourself, we must understand our “selves,” or the parts of us that motivate our thoughts, decisions, and behaviors.
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Behavior Decision Self
One barrier to being a great parent is the mistaken belief that we are raising kids.
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Belief Kids Parents
When people feel criticized, they almost always defend the behavior you want them to change.
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Behavior People Want
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
The difference between self-confidence and conceit is as simple as love and fear. Jesus was self-confident … Hitler was afraid.
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Confidence Jesus Self Simple
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 only three things we ‘have to’ do in this world we have to be born, we have to die, and we have to live until we die. Everything else is a choice!
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Choices Three World
The true measure of our belief in the validity of our values is our willingness to act upon them.
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Belief Validity Willingness
Creating a meaningful life has less to do with how we feel about our past than what we do about our future.
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Creating Meaningful Past
But if your work is your art, a personal reflection of who you are, the only person who can do that better than you, is a future you.
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Art Better Future Persons Reflection
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
When our purpose becomes avoidance, our life becomes a void.
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Lives Our Purpose Void
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
What we feed our mind becomes the material with which we build our life.
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Lives Material Mind
You never want to tie your responsibility to another’s irresponsibility.
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Responsibility Ties Want
When we take no responsibility for any aspect of our past, we limit our ability to respond in the present and the future.
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Aspects Future Limits Past Responsibility

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