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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

We limit our success when we mistake the limits of our perception for reality.
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Mistake Perception Reality
Change isn’t always easy, but with purposeful practice, any old habit can be replaced with a way of being we would recommend to those we love.
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Old Habits Practice Way
Becoming critical in the face of criticism, only inspires more criticism.
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Becoming Criticism Faces Inspire
Many people would rather be certain of their worries and fears, than risk the uncertainty of hope and optimism.
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Optimism People Uncertainty Worry
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
Stress is an indicator of our belief in the value and validity of our worries and fears.
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Belief Stress Worry
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
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
The cooperative, creative, and flexible parts of your children reside in the joyful part of their brain.
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Brain Children Creative
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
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
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
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
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 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
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

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.

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