Bill Crawford famous quotes

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

#Decision #Important #Want

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

#Selfish #Caring #Care

Want to change your experience of life? Change the problem to the practice field.
-- Bill Crawford

#Life Changing #Practice #Want

Just because we have a thought, doesn't mean it is a thought worth having.
-- Bill Crawford

#Mean

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?
-- Bill Crawford

#Children #Taken #Adults

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

#Stress #Suffering #Needs

There's no such thing as a 'stressful' situation.
-- Bill Crawford

#Stressful #Situation

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

#Stress #Worry #Belief

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

#Meaningful #Past #Creating

Never define yourself in terms of how you are negatively affected by others.
-- Bill Crawford

#Define Yourself #Term

We've all heard that in life, when one door is closed, another is opened. Unfortunately, many of us are so focused on the darkness left by what has been lost, we never see the light coming through the newly opened door.
-- Bill Crawford

#Light #Doors #Darkness

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

#Jesus #Self Confidence #Simple

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.
-- Bill Crawford

#Fall #Sleep #Brain

Until we become clear about our own worth and value, we will forever be searching for it in the eyes of others.
-- Bill Crawford

#Eye #Forever #Clear

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

#Feelings #Problem #Righteous

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

#Responsibility #Past #Limits

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?
-- Bill Crawford

#Teaching #Kids #Quality

When we take care of ourselves like we would take care of someone we love, the quality of our living and our giving goes up.
-- Bill Crawford

#Giving #Quality #Care

Trust is simply a set of expectations about the present and the future. The key is to ensure that these are chosen and evaluated based upon awareness versus fear.
-- Bill Crawford

#Keys #Expectations #Awareness

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

#People #Unhappy #Want

The past exists not as a factual recounting of what happened, but as an experience that we are constantly recreating in our mind which means we CAN change the past!
-- Bill Crawford

#Mean #Past #Mind

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.
-- Bill Crawford

#Stress #Successful #Frustration

The key to changing our past, present, and future is to create our piece of the PIE (our Perceptions, Interpretations, & Expectations) on purpose.
-- Bill Crawford

#Past #Pie #Keys

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

#Inspire #Criticism #Faces

If you want to change your life, you must change your mind and change your brain? on purpose.
-- Bill Crawford

#Brain #Mind #Purpose

To be influential in our conversations, we must first be aware of two things, (1) what do we want to bring to the conversation and (2) what do we want to bring out in others.
-- Bill Crawford

#Two #Want #Firsts

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

#Successful #Keys #Guilt

One key to creating a meaningful life, is choosing what we want to feel, and for how long.
-- Bill Crawford

#Meaningful #Keys #Creating

Nothing is meaningless it's how we assign meaning to the past that determines how we experience the present, and future.
-- Bill Crawford

#Past #Determine #Meaningless

The key to being with family is to engage with those we love in a way we would teach to those we love.
-- Bill Crawford

#Keys #Way #Teach

When faced with conflicting thoughts and emotions, we must decide what to trust, what we fear, or what we know. What's important is that this decision be made by the knowledgeable versus the anxious part of who we are.
-- Bill Crawford

#Decision #Important #Who We Are

Sometimes our ability to accept what we can't change is tied to our willingness to change what we can.
-- Bill Crawford

#Sometimes #Accepting #Ability

Autonomy, Purpose, & Mastery: If you are having difficulty creating the life you want, chances are one or more of these are missing.
-- Bill Crawford

#Creating #Missing #Mastery

The most powerful times in our lives can be the time between times, or life's transitions that give us the opportunity to choose.
-- Bill Crawford

#Powerful #Opportunity #Giving

Many people would rather be certain of their worries and fears, than risk the uncertainty of hope and optimism.
-- Bill Crawford

#People #Optimism #Worry

Problems occur when we tie our peace of mind to another's state of mind.
-- Bill Crawford

#Ties #Mind #Problem

As long as we define stress as how some person or situation is making us feel, we will have to change the world around us to find peace of mind.
-- Bill Crawford

#Stress #Long #Mind

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!
-- Bill Crawford

#Choices #Three #World

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

#Children #Creative #Brain

As we interact with others, we can either be a person who is bringing out their best or pointing out their worst. Regardless, however, our choice is always more information about us than them.
-- Bill Crawford

#Choices #Information #Worst

Our success and happiness depends not on simply knowing where we stand, but in where we are wanting to go.
-- Bill Crawford

#Knowing

You can't 'cope with' change anymore than you can 'manage' stress.
-- Bill Crawford

#Stress #Manage

The only time a mistake becomes a failure is when we look for someone to blame.
-- Bill Crawford

#Mistake #Looks #Blame

When 'Being Rushed' is the problem . . . Rushing is never the solution.
-- Bill Crawford

#Rushing #Problem #Solutions

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

#Feels

You can't use anxiety to deal with your anxiety it only makes you more anxious.
-- Bill Crawford

#Anxiety #Use #Anxious

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

#Fire #Hot #Coal

The way to encourage people to be accountable is to engage the responsible, accountable, trustworthy part of their brain.
-- Bill Crawford

#People #Brain #Way

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

#Kids #Parent #Belief

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!
-- Bill Crawford

#Powerful #Negative #Three

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

#Hate #Two #Important

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.
-- Bill Crawford

#People #Giving #Want

Never make your highest purpose, or the most important thing in your life something that is outside of your control.
-- Bill Crawford

#Important #Purpose

Regardless of the problem, as long as our solution requires someone else to change, we will never know the power and promise of self-determination.
-- Bill Crawford

#Determination #Self #Long

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

#Mistake #Action

A meaningful life is composed of a series of meaningful moments. If this is what we want, then the ability to infuse each moment with meaning would seem to be a skill worth practicing.
-- Bill Crawford

#Meaningful #Skills #Want

When the question is either/or, the answer is almost alwaysboth/and.
-- Bill Crawford

#Answers

The problem with lethargy is that doing nothing validates the fear that nothing can be done.
-- Bill Crawford

#Done #Doing Nothing #Problem

Sometimes knowing what to do is knowing when to stop.
-- Bill Crawford

#Knowing #Sometimes

You never want to tie your responsibility to another's irresponsibility.
-- Bill Crawford

#Responsibility #Ties #Want

Nothing destroys a relationship quicker than our fears of inadequacy and loss.
-- Bill Crawford

#Loss #Inadequacy

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

#Happy Life

The journey of life is both too short and too precious to be sidetracked by guilt trips.
-- Bill Crawford

#Journey #Guilt #Life Is

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.
-- Bill Crawford

#Dream #Loss #Grieving

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.
-- Bill Crawford

#Impact #Giving #Energy

It's not simply what we feel, but what we feed, that determines what we do and how we live.
-- Bill Crawford

#Feels #Determine

What we feed our mind becomes the material with which we build our life.
-- Bill Crawford

#Mind #Materials

You can't fight fire with fire, or fear with fear.
-- Bill Crawford

#Fighting #Fire

Realistic optimism allows us to experience the best until we have to deal with the worst ... which often, never comes.
-- Bill Crawford

#Optimism #Realistic #Worst