Bill Crawford Quotes
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We can't always choose how we feel. We can, however, choose what we do about it, which ironically can change how we feel!
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When we engage people positively, we create a receptive platform for the ideas and information we wish to communicate.
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To spank or not to spank isn't the question the question is whether whether we are teaching a quality we want our kids to have as adults?
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It's not simply what we feel, but what we feed, that determines what we do and how we live.
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Realistic optimism allows us to experience the best until we have to deal with the worst ... which often, never comes.
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Courage isn't the absence of fear, but a decision that what we want is more important than what we are afraid of.
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Our success and happiness depends not on simply knowing where we stand, but in where we are wanting to go.
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Love will keep us safe when we commit to choosing the kind of qualities, characteristics, and relationships that we would recommend to someone we love.
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True 'magic' is simply the ability to transcend what seems to be and, thus, transform one's experience. Maybe we could all use a little 'Harry Potter' in our lives.
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Want to change your experience of life? Change the problem to the practice field.
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Just because we have a thought, doesn't mean it is a thought worth having.
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Never make your highest purpose, or the most important thing in your life something that is outside of your control.
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Mistakes are just 'mis-takes,' or an action that we took that missed.
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If you want to change your life, you must change your mind and change your brain? on purpose.
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You can't use anxiety to deal with your anxiety it only makes you more anxious.
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To change any aspect of our life we must be willing to change our mind... Unfortunately, that is the one thing most people are the least willing to do.
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One key to successful relationships is learning to say "no" without guilt, so that you can say "yes" without resentment.
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One barrier to being a great parent is the mistaken belief that we are raising kids.
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Sometimes our ability to accept what we can't change is tied to our willingness to change what we can.
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Living exclusively in the land of the head or the heart will always be a limiting, limited experience. The most successful among us have dual citizenship.
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We limit our success when we mistake the limits of our perception for reality.
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All connections are infused with dreams of what is possible in the future. Thus, when we lose something or someone important to us, we aren't just grieving the loss, we are grieving the shattered dream.
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To influence others, we must know what is influencing them... and they must know that we get it.
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The key to being with family is to engage with those we love in a way we would teach to those we love.