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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

Many of us go from being taken care of as children to taking care of others as adults. Shouldn’t there be a time when we learn to take care of ourselves?
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Adults Children Taken
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
The most successful form of correction is when the “other” feels informed versus chastised.
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Feels Form Successful
When a loving, meaningful experience is our goal, we must trust an energy that is congruent with that goal as our guide along the way. Bottom line, trust love over fear if love is what you’re after.
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Goal Love Meaningful
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
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 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
We can’t always choose how we feel. We can, however, choose what we do about it, which ironically can change how we feel!
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Choose Feels Ironically
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
You can’t fight fire with fire, or fear with fear.
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Create Fighting Fire Happen
Problems occur when we tie our peace of mind to another’s state of mind.
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Mind Problem Ties
When we engage people positively, we create a receptive platform for the ideas and information we wish to communicate.
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Ideas People Wish
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
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
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
Trust is simply a set of expectations about the present and the future. The key is to ensure that these are chosen and evaluated based upon awareness versus fear.
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Awareness Expectations Keys

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

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