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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

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
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
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
Problems occur when we tie our peace of mind to another’s state of mind.
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Mind Problem Ties
Want to change your experience of life? Change the problem to the practice field.
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Changing Life Practice Want
Just because we have a thought, doesn’t mean it is a thought worth having.
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Having Mean Though Worth
There’s no such thing as a ‘stressful’ situation.
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Decision Situations Stressful
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
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
Nothing destroys a relationship quicker than our fears of inadequacy and loss.
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Inadequacy Loss Nothing Relationship
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
Change isn’t about what you are stopping… it’s about what you are starting.
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Change Starting Stopping
When stress and anxiety have your system stuck in a brainstem loop? Reboot. It’s I.T. for life!
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Anxiety Stress Stuck
When we take care of ourselves like we would take care of someone we love, the quality of our living and our giving goes up.
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Care Giving Quality
Meaning isn’t something we discover, it is what we bring to life, either by choice or by chance.
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Chance Choices Meaning
Nothing is meaningless it’s how we assign meaning to the past that determines how we experience the present, and future.
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Determined Meaningless Past

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

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