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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?

Bill Crawford

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
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
To change any aspect of our life we must be willing to change our mind… Unfortunately, that is the one thing most people are the least willing to do.
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Aspect Mind People
There’s no such thing as a ‘stressful’ situation.
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Decision Situations Stressful
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
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
To find the true cause of how you think and feel, find the ‘sponsoring thought’ that created the interpretation that created your experience of life.
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Causes Interpretation Thinking
The past exists not as a factual recounting of what happened, but as an experience that we are constantly recreating in our mind which means we CAN change the past!
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Constantly Mean Mind 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
Mistakes are just ‘mis-takes,’ or an action that we took that missed.
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Actions MIssed Mistakes
What we feed our mind becomes the material with which we build our life.
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Lives Material Mind
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
When we engage people positively, we create a receptive platform for the ideas and information we wish to communicate.
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Ideas People Wish
Serenity is not just an escape, but a precursor to acceptance, courage, wisdom, and change.
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Acceptance Precursor Serenity
People have the absolute right to be just as unhappy and miserable as they want to be.
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Miserable People Unhappy Want
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

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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