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To understand ourself, we must understand our “selves,” or the parts of us that motivate our thoughts, decisions, and behaviors.

Bill Crawford

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
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
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
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
The key to being with family is to engage with those we love in a way we would teach to those we love.
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Keys Teach Way
Problems occur when we tie our peace of mind to another’s state of mind.
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Mind Problem Ties
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
Peace of Mind? Don’t leave home (or go home) without it.
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Happened Home Mind Peace
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
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
One key to creating a meaningful life, is choosing what we want to feel, and for how long.
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Creating Keys Meaningful
The only time a mistake becomes a failure is when we look for someone to blame.
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Blame Looks Mistakes
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
Many of us go from being taken care of as children to taking care of others as adults. Shouldn’t there be a time when we learn to take care of ourselves?
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Adults Children Taken
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
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
The past exists not as a factual recounting of what happened, but as an experience that we are constantly recreating in our mind which means we CAN change the past!
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Constantly Mean Mind Past
We limit our success when we mistake the limits of our perception for reality.
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Mistake Perception Reality
Holding on to painful images of the past in order to avoid painful experiences in the future serves only to color the present with pain.
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Order Pain Painful Past Serve
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
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 journey of life is both too short and too precious to be sidetracked by guilt trips.
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Guilt Journey Life
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
How do you keep people from jerking your chain? Don’t give your chain to jerks!
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Giving Jerk People
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
Serenity is not just an escape, but a precursor to acceptance, courage, wisdom, and change.
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Acceptance Precursor Serenity
The most successful form of correction is when the “other” feels informed versus chastised.
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Feels Form Successful

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