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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

What we feed our mind becomes the material with which we build our life.
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Lives Material Mind
Family is the place where acceptance and validation are most needed, but often the hardest to find.
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Acceptance Hardest Validation
Life is not a means to an end but a series of experiences. Are you creating your series ‘on purpose’ ?
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Creating Mean Purpose
You can’t fight fire with fire, or fear with fear.
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Create Fighting Fire Happen
Change isn’t about what you are stopping… it’s about what you are starting.
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Change Starting Stopping
The difference between self-confidence and conceit is as simple as love and fear. Jesus was self-confident … Hitler was afraid.
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Confidence Jesus Self Simple
Creating a meaningful life has less to do with how we feel about our past than what we do about our future.
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Creating Meaningful Past
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
The problem with lethargy is that doing nothing validates the fear that nothing can be done.
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Doing Done Nothing Problem
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
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
There are two ways to look at most problems… ‘Oh Crap!’ or, ‘Good Information!,’ and our choice will give us good information on how to deal with problems in the future.
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Choices Giving Two
The most successful form of correction is when the “other” feels informed versus chastised.
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Feels Form Successful
Diversity, or the state of being different, isn’t the same as inclusion. One is a description of what is, while the other describes a style of interaction essential to effective teams and organizations.
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Diversity Organization Team
Mistakes are just ‘mis-takes,’ or an action that we took that missed.
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Actions MIssed Mistakes
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

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

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