Bill Crawford Quotes
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The way to encourage people to be accountable is to engage the responsible, accountable, trustworthy part of their brain.
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Creating a meaningful life has less to do with how we feel about our past than what we do about our future.
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The cooperative, creative, and flexible parts of your children reside in the joyful part of their brain.
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To influence others to change, you must be able to frame that change in terms of the future, and in a way that has value to all concerned.
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Nothing destroys a relationship quicker than our fears of inadequacy and loss.
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People have the absolute right to be just as unhappy and miserable as they want to be.
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A relationship is like life. It isn't a process of preservation, but of change and growth. Unless you grow and change together, you will change ... and grow apart.
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Images of resentment and revenge only have us spending the precious moments of our lives imagining the 'other' as both dangerous and important!
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Problems occur when we tie our peace of mind to another's state of mind.
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Serenity is not just an escape, but a precursor to acceptance, courage, wisdom, and change.
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Family is the place where acceptance and validation are most needed, but often the hardest to find.
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The journey of life is both too short and too precious to be sidetracked by guilt trips.
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There are two ways to make someone important in our lives ... we can either love them or hate them.
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Sometimes knowing what to do is knowing when to stop.
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When we take no responsibility for any aspect of our past, we limit our ability to respond in the present and the future.
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Nothing is meaningless it's how we assign meaning to the past that determines how we experience the present, and future.
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There are two ways to respond to the trials and tribulations of our present and past . . . 'Ain't it awful?' . . . or . . . 'Good information!' Our choice of responses will determine our experience of life.
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Peace of Mind? Don't leave home or go home without it.
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The true measure of our belief in the validity of our values is our willingness to act upon them.
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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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When stress and anxiety have your system stuck in a brainstem loop? Reboot. It's I.T. for life!
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The act of giving is simply a behavior, and the gift merely a symbol. It is the energy behind both that will determine their impact on our lives.
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The most powerful times in our lives can be the time between times, or life's transitions that give us the opportunity to choose.
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Becoming critical in the face of criticism, only inspires more criticism.