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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

You can’t ‘cope with’ change anymore than you can ‘manage’ stress.
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Change Manage Stress
The act of giving is simply a behavior, and the gift merely a symbol. It is the energy behind both that will determine their impact on our lives.
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Energy Giving Impact
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 influence others, we must know what is influencing them… and they must know that we get it.
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Influence Knows Others People
Becoming critical in the face of criticism, only inspires more criticism.
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Becoming Criticism Faces Inspire
There’s no such thing as a ‘stressful’ situation.
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Decision Situations Stressful
There are only three things we ‘have to’ do in this world we have to be born, we have to die, and we have to live until we die. Everything else is a choice!
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Choices Three World
When people feel criticized, they almost always defend the behavior you want them to change.
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Behavior People Want
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
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 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
The most successful form of correction is when the “other” feels informed versus chastised.
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Feels Form Successful
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
To find the true cause of how you think and feel, find the ‘sponsoring thought’ that created the interpretation that created your experience of life.
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Causes Interpretation Thinking
The problem with lethargy is that doing nothing validates the fear that nothing can be done.
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Doing Done Nothing Problem
One key to successful relationships is learning to say “no” without guilt, so that you can say “yes” without resentment.
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Guilt Keys Successful

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

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