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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

If you want to change your life, you must change your mind and change your brain? on purpose.
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Brain Mind Purpose
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
There are two ways to make someone important in our lives … we can either love them or hate them.
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Hate Important Two
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
To understand ourself, we must understand our “selves,” or the parts of us that motivate our thoughts, decisions, and behaviors.
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Behavior Decision Self
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
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
The key to being with family is to engage with those we love in a way we would teach to those we love.
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Keys Teach Way
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
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
Want to change your experience of life? Change the problem to the practice field.
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Changing Life Practice Want
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
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
Never define yourself in terms of how you are negatively affected by others.
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Affected Define Term
The problem with lethargy is that doing nothing validates the fear that nothing can be done.
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Doing Done Nothing Problem
Images of resentment and revenge only have us spending the precious moments of our lives imagining the ‘other’ as both dangerous and important!
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Important Resentment Revenge

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

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