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Rather than celebrating the painting you finished, revel in the skills you have learned.


Jim Genovese

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JIM GENOVESE Don't seek a solution, seek the best solution.
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JIM GENOVESE When you find the best solution it is often very easy, and everyone will say 'Anyone could do that.'
JIM GENOVESE Worry is a thief that steals the energy needed to solve the problem.
JIM GENOVESE Letting fear run your life leads to a short term solution and a long term problem.
JIM GENOVESE Most often the solution is not hard. The hard part is recognizing the problem.
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JIM GENOVESE The other person's reactions are their problem, but my reaction can become mine.
JIM GENOVESE Until you can see the big picture, the individual parts won't make sense.
JIM GENOVESE The past is full of of regret, the future fear, and the present joy.
JIM GENOVESE Engage life! That's the only way to fully enjoy it.
JIM GENOVESE Dive into the river of the present, but don't thrash about, go with the flow.
JIM GENOVESE Don't resist life, flow with it.
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JIM GENOVESE It is enough knowing the problem to solve the problem.
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JIM GENOVESE The simplest solution is the best.
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JIM GENOVESE If you focus on the next task, you'll never be overwhelmed.
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JIM GENOVESE Your perception is the only thing determining whether your life is good or bad.
JIM GENOVESE You're the only one who knows your world.
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JIM GENOVESE I think, therefore it is.
JIM GENOVESE Look at what a person does, not what they say.
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JIM GENOVESE Escape the prison of your thoughts into the vastness of reality.
JIM GENOVESE The more you engage life, the more you live life.
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JIM GENOVESE Any virtue taken to the extreme becomes a vice; unfortunately it doesn't work the other way.
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JIM GENOVESE Only the present is real.
JIM GENOVESE The path most walked on is the easiest one to use, but probably not the best.
JIM GENOVESE Expertise is made up of more practice and more refinement.
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JIM GENOVESE Trying to control people is like trying to heard cats. It's not a good idea.
JIM GENOVESE Do your part, and God will do the rest.
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JIM GENOVESE The time to start is now.
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JIM GENOVESE Trying to hard impedes progress.
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JIM GENOVESE Keep trying something new. You never know if you like it otherwise.
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JIM GENOVESE The result of trying to fix others is frustration; the result of trying to fix ourselves is wisdom.
JIM GENOVESE If all become one, each becomes none, but if one is all, then each becomes everything.
JIM GENOVESE Duality is like the head and tail of a coin. In reality both form only one coin.
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JIM GENOVESE You do to yourself what you do to others.
JIM GENOVESE If you're not having fun, you're not doing it right.
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