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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

Peace of Mind? Don’t leave home (or go home) without it.
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Happened Home Mind Peace
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
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
When dealing with problems, seek not to “change” some aspect of your life but instead, choose who you want to become as a path to what you want. Transformation and healing then take place as a process of becoming versus avoiding.
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Healing Path Want
There’s no such thing as a ‘stressful’ situation.
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Decision Situations Stressful
Stress is an indicator of our belief in the value and validity of our worries and fears.
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Belief Stress Worry
But if your work is your art, a personal reflection of who you are, the only person who can do that better than you, is a future you.
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Art Better Future Persons Reflection
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
Images of resentment and revenge only have us spending the precious moments of our lives imagining the ‘other’ as both dangerous and important!
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Important Resentment Revenge
Serenity is not just an escape, but a precursor to acceptance, courage, wisdom, and change.
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Acceptance Precursor Serenity
There are two ways to make someone important in our lives … we can either love them or hate them.
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Hate Important Two
Just because we have a thought, doesn’t mean it is a thought worth having.
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Having Mean Though Worth
Realistic optimism allows us to experience the best until we have to deal with the worst … which often, never comes.
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Optimism Realistic Worst
Regardless of what is being discussed . . . the issue is never more important than the quality of the interaction.
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Important Issues Quality
The past exists not as a factual recounting of what happened, but as an experience that we are constantly recreating in our mind which means we CAN change the past!
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Constantly Mean Mind 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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