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Realistic optimism allows us to experience the best until we have to deal with the worst … which often, never comes.

Bill Crawford

The cooperative, creative, and flexible parts of your children reside in the joyful part of their brain.
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Brain Children Creative
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
Fear of feeling bad rarely makes one feel good.
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Bad Fear Feel Feelings Good
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 dealing with problems, seek not to “change” some aspect of your life but instead, choose who you want to become as a path to what you want. Transformation and healing then take place as a process of becoming versus avoiding.
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Healing Path Want
There are only three things we ‘have to’ do in this world we have to be born, we have to die, and we have to live until we die. Everything else is a choice!
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Choices Three World
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
Nothing destroys a relationship quicker than our fears of inadequacy and loss.
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Inadequacy Loss Nothing Relationship
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
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
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
How do you keep people from jerking your chain? Don’t give your chain to jerks!
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Giving Jerk People
Serenity is not just an escape, but a precursor to acceptance, courage, wisdom, and change.
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Acceptance Precursor Serenity
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
Family is the place where acceptance and validation are most needed, but often the hardest to find.
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Acceptance Hardest Validation
Problems occur when we tie our peace of mind to another’s state of mind.
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Mind Problem Ties

Realistic optimism allows us to experience the best until we have to deal with the worst … which often, never comes.

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