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Perspective is what allows us to step back and see the entire forest instead of just the same old tree we keep running into again and again.

Bill Crawford

You can’t ‘cope with’ change anymore than you can ‘manage’ stress.
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Change Manage Stress
To spank or not to spank isn’t the question the question is whether whether we are teaching a quality we want our kids to have as adults?
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Kids Quality Teaching
Family is the place where acceptance and validation are most needed, but often the hardest to find.
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Acceptance Hardest Validation
Never define yourself in terms of how you are negatively affected by others.
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Affected Define Term
Problems occur when we tie our peace of mind to another’s state of mind.
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Mind Problem Ties
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
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
People have the absolute right to be just as unhappy and miserable as they want to be.
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Miserable People Unhappy Want
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
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
Mistakes are just ‘mis-takes,’ or an action that we took that missed.
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Actions MIssed Mistakes
When we take no responsibility for any aspect of our past, we limit our ability to respond in the present and the future.
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Aspects Future Limits Past Responsibility
You can’t use anxiety to deal with your anxiety it only makes you more anxious.
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Anxiety Anxious Use
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
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
What we feed our mind becomes the material with which we build our life.
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Lives Material Mind

Perspective is what allows us to step back and see the entire forest instead of just the same old tree we keep running into again and again.

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