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Family is the place where acceptance and validation are most needed, but often the hardest to find.

Bill Crawford

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
Stress is an indicator of our belief in the value and validity of our worries and fears.
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Belief Stress Worry
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 problem with lethargy is that doing nothing validates the fear that nothing can be done.
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Doing Done Nothing Problem
Sometimes our ability to accept what we can’t change is tied to our willingness to change what we can.
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Accepting Change Sometimes Willingness
You can’t fight fire with fire, or fear with fear.
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Create Fighting Fire Happen
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
To influence others, we must know what is influencing them… and they must know that we get it.
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Influence Knows Others People
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
Leaders should interact with everyone in their organization as if the interaction is being recorded and will be used as a training film on how to treat colleagues, coworkers, and customers.
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Leader Organization Training
There’s no such thing as a ‘stressful’ situation.
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Decision Situations Stressful
When people feel criticized, they almost always defend the behavior you want them to change.
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Behavior People Want
Never define people or situations in terms of their effect on you, unless you want to give them the power to make you feel that way.
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Giving People 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
Serenity is not just an escape, but a precursor to acceptance, courage, wisdom, and change.
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Acceptance Precursor Serenity
Peace of Mind? Don’t leave home (or go home) without it.
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Happened Home Mind Peace

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