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SELF-AWARENESS Qs
This list can be used as Inventory or as prompts for Journaling.
✦ Take ONE at a time – think bout it, before you write.
✦ You can jump around – pick the ones you want to answer first.  Some will be harder, & some won’t apply to you. MAKE it FUN.

✦ If you’re ambitious & curious to see what comes up — you can do 5 (brief) responses to any one of these Qs, from = the healthy Adult, the natural Kid, the wounded Kid, the healthy Parent & the Toxic Parent! You may be surprised what they each have to say! (Read summary of the 5 “Ego states“, then the expanded versions – 21 posts, Apr – May, in 2013. )
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Validating our RECOVERY
Growth lets us slowly uncover & appreciate our True Self (see “Positive 4th Step“) – the person we were born to be, & are responsible for developing. 
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Maya Angelou stated, “Do the best you can. Then, when you know better, do better.”
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Self-regulation is the ability to control behavior, by managing your thoughts & emotions in appropriate ways. Regulation-actions are ‘coping skills, used to influence a person or group, have a desirable or socially acceptable outcome to a goal, or get a beneficial, self-determined response to a stressful situation. (2024 includes 29 posts on this topic)
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💠  Personal Accountability : “The price of innocence is impotence”. ~from Conscious Business, by Fred Kofman

The Bystander is : a Blame-thrower, focuses energy on things beyond their control, sees Self as victim of circumstances. Uses 3rd person language
A Player is : Response-ABLE, focuses on their own area of control or influence.  When things go wrong, looks for explanations that include themself.  Uses “I” language
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