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Sometimes our ability to accept what we can’t change is tied to our willingness to change what we can.

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
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
There’s no such thing as a ‘stressful’ situation.
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Decision Situations Stressful
One barrier to being a great parent is the mistaken belief that we are raising kids.
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Belief Kids Parents
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
The problem with lethargy is that doing nothing validates the fear that nothing can be done.
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Doing Done Nothing Problem
Problems occur when we tie our peace of mind to another’s state of mind.
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Mind Problem Ties
How do you keep people from jerking your chain? Don’t give your chain to jerks!
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Giving Jerk People
You can’t fight fire with fire, or fear with fear.
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Create Fighting Fire Happen
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
Just because we have a thought, doesn’t mean it is a thought worth having.
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Having Mean Though Worth
The most successful form of correction is when the “other” feels informed versus chastised.
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Feels Form Successful
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
When we take no responsibility for any aspect of our past, we limit our ability to respond in the present and the future.
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Aspects Future Limits Past Responsibility
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.
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Influential Order Views
When our purpose becomes avoidance, our life becomes a void.
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Lives Our Purpose Void

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