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Creating a meaningful life has less to do with how we feel about our past than what we do about our future.

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
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
One barrier to being a great parent is the mistaken belief that we are raising kids.
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Belief Kids Parents
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
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
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
Fear of feeling bad rarely makes one feel good.
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Bad Fear Feel Feelings Good
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
One key to successful relationships is learning to say “no” without guilt, so that you can say “yes” without resentment.
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Guilt Keys Successful
We limit our success when we mistake the limits of our perception for reality.
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Mistake Perception Reality
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
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
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
Sometimes knowing what to do is knowing when to stop.
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Issue Knowing Matters Sometimes
There’s no such thing as a ‘stressful’ situation.
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Decision Situations Stressful

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