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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.

Bill Crawford

There’s no such thing as a ‘stressful’ situation.
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Decision Situations Stressful
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
Stress is an indicator of our belief in the value and validity of our worries and fears.
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Belief Stress Worry
Holding on to painful images of the past in order to avoid painful experiences in the future serves only to color the present with pain.
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Order Pain Painful Past Serve
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
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal while blaming our misery on the person who started the fire.
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Coal Fire Hot
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
The problem with lethargy is that doing nothing validates the fear that nothing can be done.
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Doing Done Nothing Problem
When our purpose becomes avoidance, our life becomes a void.
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Lives Our Purpose Void
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
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
You can’t use anxiety to deal with your anxiety it only makes you more anxious.
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Anxiety Anxious Use
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
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
Peace of Mind? Don’t leave home (or go home) without it.
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Happened Home Mind Peace
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

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 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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