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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.

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Fear of feeling bad rarely makes one feel good.
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Bad Fear Feel Feelings Good
Serenity is not just an escape, but a precursor to acceptance, courage, wisdom, and change.
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Acceptance Precursor Serenity
There’s no such thing as a ‘stressful’ situation.
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Decision Situations Stressful
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
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
Never define yourself in terms of how you are negatively affected by others.
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Affected Define Term
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
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
What we feed our mind becomes the material with which we build our life.
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Lives Material Mind
The cooperative, creative, and flexible parts of your children reside in the joyful part of their brain.
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Brain Children Creative
Want to change your experience of life? Change the problem to the practice field.
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Changing Life Practice Want
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
Change isn’t about what you are stopping… it’s about what you are starting.
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Change Starting Stopping
Problems occur when we tie our peace of mind to another’s state of mind.
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Mind Problem Ties
The problem with righteous indignation is that even when you’re right, you’re still left feeling indignant.
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Feelings Problems Righteous
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 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
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
Selfish is caring for ourselves at others’ expense … Self-care is taking care of ourselves so that we can be there for others.
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Care Caring Selfish
When faced with conflicting thoughts and emotions, we must decide what to trust, what we fear, or what we know. What’s important is that this decision be made by the knowledgeable versus the anxious part of who we are.
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Decision Faced Important
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
The key to being with family is to engage with those we love in a way we would teach to those we love.
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Keys Teach Way
In our lives, we can either be a reflection of the world around us . . . or a beam that enlightens the lives of others.
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Enlightening Reflection World
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
The most successful form of correction is when the “other” feels informed versus chastised.
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Feels Form Successful
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

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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