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When you are a tough girl with a soft heart, you will have a public you and a private you.

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You continue to take every circumstance (and every emotion paired with it) and use them as bricks for that mental wall you’ve built yourself without realizing it. But the problem isn’t that wall. It’s your mindset that seems to be continuing to build that wall taller and taller.

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But somewhere along the dad path I made a strategic shift – and if it were a bumper sticker that shift would read: “Shit Happens. Deal With It.”

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We can choose if we want to lay down and ask the world for pitty or if we are going to pick ourselves back up and keep moving forward.

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What would happen if you turned that obstacle into your way? What would happen if you accepted that you’re worried about failing, and started understanding it rather than judging it, and decided that it was more important to let go of it than to hold onto it?

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People are often surprised by your random acts of kindness.

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1. Being honest about your feelings.

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It’s kind of nice down here, where the haters hate — quiet, too. But mostly calming, with the knowledge that there’s nowhere else to go but up.