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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

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
Peace of Mind? Don’t leave home (or go home) without it.
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Happened Home Mind Peace
Just because we have a thought, doesn’t mean it is a thought worth having.
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Having Mean Though Worth
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
Want to change your experience of life? Change the problem to the practice field.
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Changing Life Practice Want
Nothing destroys a relationship quicker than our fears of inadequacy and loss.
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Inadequacy Loss Nothing Relationship
When people feel criticized, they almost always defend the behavior you want them to change.
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Behavior People Want
Leaders should interact with everyone in their organization as if the interaction is being recorded and will be used as a training film on how to treat colleagues, coworkers, and customers.
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Leader Organization Training
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
Problems occur when we tie our peace of mind to another’s state of mind.
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Mind Problem Ties
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
Children don’t know that they are lovable until they are loved. They need to see it in our eyes before they can accept it in their hearts.
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Children Eye Heart
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
Never define yourself in terms of how you are negatively affected by others.
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Affected Define Term
A process for discernment: God is my ultimate source of truth and wisdom, and dwells forever at the center of my being. Therefore, any thought, emotion, or action that takes me further from my center can be neither truthful, nor wise.
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Action Forever Wise
Never make your highest purpose, or the most important thing in your life something that is outside of your control.
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Highest Important Purpose Sometimes

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