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The cooperative, creative, and flexible parts of your children reside in the joyful part of their brain.

Bill Crawford

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
Change isn’t always easy, but with purposeful practice, any old habit can be replaced with a way of being we would recommend to those we love.
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Old Habits Practice Way
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
The most powerful times in our lives can be the time between times, or life’s transitions that give us the opportunity to choose.
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Giving Opportunity Powerful
Sleep is simply a chemical change in our brain and body (melatonin) – It?s not a place we go, it is a state of being that we fall into.
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Brain Change Chemical Fall Sleep
There are two ways to look at most problems… ‘Oh Crap!’ or, ‘Good Information!,’ and our choice will give us good information on how to deal with problems in the future.
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Choices Giving Two
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
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
Diversity, or the state of being different, isn’t the same as inclusion. One is a description of what is, while the other describes a style of interaction essential to effective teams and organizations.
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Diversity Organization Team
Images of resentment and revenge only have us spending the precious moments of our lives imagining the ‘other’ as both dangerous and important!
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Important Resentment Revenge
One barrier to being a great parent is the mistaken belief that we are raising kids.
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Belief Kids Parents
True ‘magic’ is simply the ability to transcend what seems to be and, thus, transform one’s experience. Maybe we could all use a little ‘Harry Potter’ in our lives.
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Magic Potters Use
When a loving, meaningful experience is our goal, we must trust an energy that is congruent with that goal as our guide along the way. Bottom line, trust love over fear if love is what you’re after.
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Goal Love Meaningful
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
When our purpose becomes avoidance, our life becomes a void.
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Lives Our Purpose Void
But if your work is your art, a personal reflection of who you are, the only person who can do that better than you, is a future you.
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Art Better Future Persons Reflection
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
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
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
Selfish is caring for ourselves at others’ expense … Self-care is taking care of ourselves so that we can be there for others.
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Care Caring Selfish
The key to being with family is to engage with those we love in a way we would teach to those we love.
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Keys Teach Way
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
The only time a mistake becomes a failure is when we look for someone to blame.
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Blame Looks Mistakes
The cooperative, creative, and flexible parts of your children reside in the joyful part of their brain.
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Brain Children Creative
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
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
How do you keep people from jerking your chain? Don’t give your chain to jerks!
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Giving Jerk People

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