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One key to successful relationships is learning to say “no” without guilt, so that you can say “yes” without resentment.

Bill Crawford

Just because we have a thought, doesn’t mean it is a thought worth having.
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Having Mean Though Worth
What we feed our mind becomes the material with which we build our life.
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Lives Material Mind
One barrier to being a great parent is the mistaken belief that we are raising kids.
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Belief Kids Parents
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
Family is the place where acceptance and validation are most needed, but often the hardest to find.
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Acceptance Hardest Validation
Mistakes are just ‘mis-takes,’ or an action that we took that missed.
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Actions MIssed Mistakes
Nothing destroys a relationship quicker than our fears of inadequacy and loss.
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Inadequacy Loss Nothing Relationship
Regardless of the problem, as long as our solution requires someone else to change, we will never know the power and promise of self-determination.
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Determination Long Self
Perspective is what allows us to step back and see the entire forest instead of just the same old tree we keep running into again and again.
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Perspective Running Tree
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
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
You can’t ‘cope with’ change anymore than you can ‘manage’ stress.
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Change Manage Stress
The true measure of our belief in the validity of our values is our willingness to act upon them.
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Belief Validity Willingness
When stress and anxiety have your system stuck in a brainstem loop? Reboot. It’s I.T. for life!
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Anxiety Stress Stuck
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
When people feel criticized, they almost always defend the behavior you want them to change.
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Behavior People Want

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