Bill Crawford Quotes

All of life presents itself as a cycle of cause and effect. When this cycle is negative, there are three ways to change. You can change the cause, change the effect, or choose the most powerful option become the cause!

There's no such thing as a 'stressful' situation.

When our worries and fears just don't make sense, it's possible we are trusting the part of the brain that doesn't make sense... it just reacts.

People have the absolute right to be just as unhappy and miserable as they want to be.

One key to successful relationships is learning to say "no" without guilt, so that you can say "yes" without resentment.

Becoming critical in the face of criticism, only inspires more criticism.

Trusting fear, while fearing trust and happiness often creates a less than happy life.

There are only three things we 'have to' do in this world we have to be born, we have to die, and we have to live until we die. Everything else is a choice!

In order to become more influential with those who are resistant to our point of view, we must be willing to start with what is influencing them.

Meaning isn't something we discover, it is what we bring to life, either by choice or by chance.

To truly be of service to others, we must first serve the server. The ability to bring an enlightened presence to those in need is the ability to light a candle without burning ourselves out.

Stress is an indicator of our belief in the value and validity of our worries and fears.

When stress and anxiety have your system stuck in a brainstem loop? Reboot. It's I.T. for life!

Many of us go from being taken care of as children to taking care of others as adults. Shouldn't there be a time when we learn to take care of ourselves?

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal while blaming our misery on the person who started the fire.

When we engage people positively, we create a receptive platform for the ideas and information we wish to communicate.

Images of resentment and revenge only have us spending the precious moments of our lives imagining the 'other' as both dangerous and important!

The problem with righteous indignation is that even when you're right, you're still left feeling indignant.

When we take no responsibility for any aspect of our past, we limit our ability to respond in the present and the future.

Perspective is what allows us to step back and see the entire forest instead of just the same old tree we keep running into again and again.

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.

The difference between self-confidence and conceit is as simple as love and fear. Jesus was self-confident ... Hitler was afraid.

Freedom isn't about having permission to do whatever we want... it's about having the courage to do whatever fills our life with meaning.

Stress is a signal that something needs to change. Suffering, is when we don't make the change!

The cooperative, creative, and flexible parts of your children reside in the joyful part of their brain.

Diversity, or the state of being different, isn't the same as inclusion. One is a description of what is, while the other describes a style of interaction essential to effective teams and organizations.

Never define people or situations in terms of their effect on you, unless you want to give them the power to make you feel that way.

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.

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.

Family is the place where acceptance and validation are most needed, but often the hardest to find.

Holding on to painful images of the past in order to avoid painful experiences in the future serves only to color the present with pain.

There are two ways to make someone important in our lives ... we can either love them or hate them.

Remembering the past should help you create a purposeful future, not cause you to be afraid of it.

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.

Leaders should interact with everyone in their organization as if the interaction is being recorded and will be used as a training film on how to treat colleagues, coworkers, and customers.

Selfish is caring for ourselves at others' expense ... Self-care is taking care of ourselves so that we can be there for others.

Sleep is simply a chemical change in our brain and body (melatonin) - It?s not a place we go, it is a state of being that we fall into.

Life is not a means to an end but a series of experiences. Are you creating your series 'on purpose' ?

Courage isn't the absence of fear, but a decision that what we want is more important than what we are afraid of.

You can't use stress, anxiety, frustration, and worry to deal with your stress, anxiety, frustration, and worry. It's like pulling up to a burning building with a flame thrower. The energy of the problem can't be the energy behind a successful solution.

Our past is not, as some fear, a series of events carved in stone that we must carry around for the rest of our lives... but a kaleidoscope of experiences that, when viewed through different lenses, can 'color' (change) how we see our present and future.

Creating a meaningful life has less to do with how we feel about our past than what we do about our future.

Sometimes knowing what to do is knowing when to stop.

We can't always choose how we feel. We can, however, choose what we do about it, which ironically can change how we feel!

To influence others, we must know what is influencing them... and they must know that we get it.

One barrier to being a great parent is the mistaken belief that we are raising kids.

When a loving, meaningful experience is our goal, we must trust an energy that is congruent with that goal as our guide along the way. Bottom line, trust love over fear if love is what you're after.

Mistakes are just 'mis-takes,' or an action that we took that missed.