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How do you keep people from jerking your chain? Don’t give your chain to jerks!

Bill Crawford

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
Becoming critical in the face of criticism, only inspires more criticism.
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Becoming Criticism Faces Inspire
Meaning isn’t something we discover, it is what we bring to life, either by choice or by chance.
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Chance Choices Meaning
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
Family is the place where acceptance and validation are most needed, but often the hardest to find.
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Acceptance Hardest Validation
What we feed our mind becomes the material with which we build our life.
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Lives Material Mind
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
The cooperative, creative, and flexible parts of your children reside in the joyful part of their brain.
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Brain Children Creative
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
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
A meaningful life is composed of a series of meaningful moments. If this is what we want, then the ability to infuse each moment with meaning would seem to be a skill worth practicing.
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Meaningful Skills Want
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 care of ourselves like we would take care of someone we love, the quality of our living and our giving goes up.
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Care Giving Quality
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
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
You never want to tie your responsibility to another’s irresponsibility.
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Responsibility Ties Want

How do you keep people from jerking your chain? Don’t give your chain to jerks!

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