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When stress and anxiety have your system stuck in a brainstem loop? Reboot. It’s I.T. for life!

Bill Crawford

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
Fear of feeling bad rarely makes one feel good.
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Bad Fear Feel Feelings Good
It’s not simply what we feel, but what we feed, that determines what we do and how we live.
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Determined Feels Simply
Becoming critical in the face of criticism, only inspires more criticism.
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Becoming Criticism Faces Inspire
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
The true measure of our belief in the validity of our values is our willingness to act upon them.
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Belief Validity Willingness
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
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
One key to success is knowing the difference between knowledge and wisdom. One is information from the past while the other is the key to the future.
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Differences Key Past
Our past is not, as some fear, a series of events carved in stone that we must carry around for the rest of our lives… but a kaleidoscope of experiences that, when viewed through different lenses, can ‘color’ (change) how we see our present and future.
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Color Events Past
The only time a mistake becomes a failure is when we look for someone to blame.
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Blame Looks 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
True ‘magic’ is simply the ability to transcend what seems to be and, thus, transform one’s experience. Maybe we could all use a little ‘Harry Potter’ in our lives.
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Magic Potters Use
Change isn’t about what you are stopping… it’s about what you are starting.
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Change Starting Stopping
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 stress and anxiety have your system stuck in a brainstem loop? Reboot. It’s I.T. for life!

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