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In order to become more influential with those who are resistant to our point of view, we must be willing to start with what is influencing them.

Bill Crawford

There’s no such thing as a ‘stressful’ situation.
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Decision Situations Stressful
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
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
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
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
How do you keep people from jerking your chain? Don’t give your chain to jerks!
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Giving Jerk People
Selfish is caring for ourselves at others’ expense … Self-care is taking care of ourselves so that we can be there for others.
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Care Caring Selfish
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
You can’t ‘cope with’ change anymore than you can ‘manage’ stress.
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Change Manage Stress
Problems occur when we tie our peace of mind to another’s state of mind.
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Mind Problem Ties
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
Family is the place where acceptance and validation are most needed, but often the hardest to find.
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Acceptance Hardest Validation
Nothing destroys a relationship quicker than our fears of inadequacy and loss.
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Inadequacy Loss Nothing Relationship
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
Sometimes knowing what to do is knowing when to stop.
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Issue Knowing Matters Sometimes
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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Our Lives Permission Want

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