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The true measure of our belief in the validity of our values is our willingness to act upon them.

Bill Crawford

One barrier to being a great parent is the mistaken belief that we are raising kids.
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Belief Kids Parents
When dealing with problems, seek not to “change” some aspect of your life but instead, choose who you want to become as a path to what you want. Transformation and healing then take place as a process of becoming versus avoiding.
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Healing Path Want
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
Nothing is meaningless it’s how we assign meaning to the past that determines how we experience the present, and future.
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Determined Meaningless Past
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
Life is not a means to an end but a series of experiences. Are you creating your series ‘on purpose’ ?
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Creating Mean Purpose
How do you keep people from jerking your chain? Don’t give your chain to jerks!
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Giving Jerk People
Creating a meaningful life has less to do with how we feel about our past than what we do about our future.
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Creating Meaningful Past
In our lives, we can either be a reflection of the world around us . . . or a beam that enlightens the lives of others.
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Enlightening Reflection World
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
Never define yourself in terms of how you are negatively affected by others.
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Affected Define Term
Worry, shame, and fear can’t be the energy with which we deal with food and weight. It only spurs us to eat more food and produce more glucose/sugar which gets stored as fat.
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Energy Shame Spurs Worry
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
Problems occur when we tie our peace of mind to another’s state of mind.
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Mind Problem Ties
Just because we have a thought, doesn’t mean it is a thought worth having.
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Having Mean Though Worth

The true measure of our belief in the validity of our values is our willingness to act upon them.

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