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We can’t always choose how we feel. We can, however, choose what we do about it, which ironically can change how we feel!

Bill Crawford

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
To understand ourself, we must understand our “selves,” or the parts of us that motivate our thoughts, decisions, and behaviors.
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Behavior Decision Self
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
One key to creating a meaningful life, is choosing what we want to feel, and for how long.
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Creating Keys Meaningful
Change isn’t about what you are stopping… it’s about what you are starting.
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Change Starting Stopping
Worry, shame, and fear can’t be the energy with which we deal with food and weight. It only spurs us to eat more food and produce more glucose/sugar which gets stored as fat.
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Energy Shame Spurs Worry
When people feel criticized, they almost always defend the behavior you want them to change.
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Behavior People Want
You can’t ‘cope with’ change anymore than you can ‘manage’ stress.
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Change Manage Stress
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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Perspective Running Tree
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 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
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
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
A meaningful life is composed of a series of meaningful moments. If this is what we want, then the ability to infuse each moment with meaning would seem to be a skill worth practicing.
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Meaningful Skills Want
Autonomy, Purpose, & Mastery: If you are having difficulty creating the life you want, chances are one or more of these are missing.
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Creating Missing Want
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

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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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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