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Change isn’t about what you are stopping… it’s about what you are starting.

Bill Crawford

Family is the place where acceptance and validation are most needed, but often the hardest to find.
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Acceptance Hardest Validation
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
Fear of feeling bad rarely makes one feel good.
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Bad Fear Feel Feelings Good
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
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
The difference between self-confidence and conceit is as simple as love and fear. Jesus was self-confident … Hitler was afraid.
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Confidence Jesus Self Simple
Just because we have a thought, doesn’t mean it is a thought worth having.
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Having Mean Though Worth
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
One key to success is knowing the difference between knowledge and wisdom. One is information from the past while the other is the key to the future.
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Differences Key Past
Want to change your experience of life? Change the problem to the practice field.
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Changing Life Practice Want
Becoming critical in the face of criticism, only inspires more criticism.
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Becoming Criticism Faces Inspire
The cooperative, creative, and flexible parts of your children reside in the joyful part of their brain.
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Brain Children Creative
Problems occur when we tie our peace of mind to another’s state of mind.
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Mind Problem Ties
The problem with lethargy is that doing nothing validates the fear that nothing can be done.
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Doing Done Nothing Problem
Peace of Mind? Don’t leave home (or go home) without it.
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Happened Home Mind Peace
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

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