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Shape your perspective

Shape your perspective

Instead of focussing on the negatives in the situation, deliberately discover what is still going right. 

In choosing your perspective you are keeping the problem from consuming you.

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Sometimes the most important life lessons are the ones we end up learning the hard way.

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