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It’s not simply what we feel, but what we feed, that determines what we do and how we live.

Bill Crawford

We limit our success when we mistake the limits of our perception for reality.
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Mistake Perception Reality
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
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
One key to success is knowing the difference between knowledge and wisdom. One is information from the past while the other is the key to the future.
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Differences Key Past
The cooperative, creative, and flexible parts of your children reside in the joyful part of their brain.
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Brain Children Creative
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
There are two ways to make someone important in our lives … we can either love them or hate them.
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Hate Important Two
Becoming critical in the face of criticism, only inspires more criticism.
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Becoming Criticism Faces Inspire
There are two ways to look at most problems… ‘Oh Crap!’ or, ‘Good Information!,’ and our choice will give us good information on how to deal with problems in the future.
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Choices Giving Two
The act of giving is simply a behavior, and the gift merely a symbol. It is the energy behind both that will determine their impact on our lives.
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Energy Giving Impact
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
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
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
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
You can’t ‘cope with’ change anymore than you can ‘manage’ stress.
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Change Manage Stress
How do you keep people from jerking your chain? Don’t give your chain to jerks!
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Giving Jerk People
Serenity is not just an escape, but a precursor to acceptance, courage, wisdom, and change.
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Acceptance Precursor Serenity
The problem with righteous indignation is that even when you’re right, you’re still left feeling indignant.
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Feelings Problems Righteous
Family is the place where acceptance and validation are most needed, but often the hardest to find.
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Acceptance Hardest Validation
Never make your highest purpose, or the most important thing in your life something that is outside of your control.
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Highest Important Purpose Sometimes
There’s no such thing as a ‘stressful’ situation.
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Decision Situations Stressful
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
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
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
When faced with conflicting thoughts and emotions, we must decide what to trust, what we fear, or what we know. What’s important is that this decision be made by the knowledgeable versus the anxious part of who we are.
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Decision Faced Important
The most powerful times in our lives can be the time between times, or life’s transitions that give us the opportunity to choose.
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Giving Opportunity Powerful
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

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