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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.

Bill Crawford

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
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
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
You can’t fight fire with fire, or fear with fear.
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Create Fighting Fire Happen
One barrier to being a great parent is the mistaken belief that we are raising kids.
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Belief Kids Parents
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 most successful form of correction is when the “other” feels informed versus chastised.
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Feels Form Successful
Becoming critical in the face of criticism, only inspires more criticism.
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Becoming Criticism Faces Inspire
Worry, shame, and fear can’t be the energy with which we deal with food and weight. It only spurs us to eat more food and produce more glucose/sugar which gets stored as fat.
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Energy Shame Spurs Worry
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
Problems occur when we tie our peace of mind to another’s state of mind.
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Mind Problem Ties
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
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
We limit our success when we mistake the limits of our perception for reality.
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Mistake Perception Reality
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
Mistakes are just ‘mis-takes,’ or an action that we took that missed.
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Actions MIssed Mistakes

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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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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