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https://backyardlifeblog.com/2011/12/optimistic-realism-an-oxymoron-or-the-answer/ Because the little things in life ARE the big things! Mon, 11 Mar 2019 16:08:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.38 https://backyardlifeblog.com/2011/12/optimistic-realism-an-oxymoron-or-the-answer/#comment-235 Fri, 30 Dec 2011 13:51:00 +0000 http://backyardlifeblog.com/?p=940#comment-235 Thanks for the comment, Rob. I think it’s valuable to know that we are all influencers and we each have the choice to be a positive influence or a negative influence.

]]> https://backyardlifeblog.com/2011/12/optimistic-realism-an-oxymoron-or-the-answer/#comment-233 Thu, 29 Dec 2011 22:25:00 +0000 http://backyardlifeblog.com/?p=940#comment-233 Raun, 
Great post, I didn’t see this earlier when I wrote about changing your paradigm but I’m glad you directed me back to it. I see the victim mentality on a daily basis with my clients and what is worse yet is when they spread it and try to infect others. Many of them figure that if they can’t have it no one else should either. I regularly hear “you just don’t understand” and I think they are right, I don’t understand how a person can continue to sit around in their own misery and self pity. I try to help them see that what they feed their mind and their soul (all the bad, negative news around us) grows more negativity in them. 

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