When we take no responsibility for any aspect of our past, we limit our ability to respond in the present and the future.
BILL CRAWFORDPerspective 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.
More Bill Crawford Quotes
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You can’t use anxiety to deal with your anxiety it only makes you more anxious.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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You can’t ‘cope with’ change anymore than you can ‘manage’ stress.
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But if your work is your art, a personal reflection of who you are, the only person who can do that better than you, is a future you.
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Peace of Mind? Don’t leave home (or go home) without it.
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Just because we have a thought, doesn’t mean it is a thought worth having.
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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.
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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!
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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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Change isn’t always easy, but with purposeful practice, any old habit can be replaced with a way of being we would recommend to those we love.
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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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The key to being with family is to engage with those we love in a way we would teach to those we love.
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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?
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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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One key to success is knowing the difference between knowledge and wisdom. One is information from the past while the other is the key to the future.
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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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How do you keep people from jerking your chain? Don’t give your chain to jerks!
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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.
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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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You never want to tie your responsibility to another’s irresponsibility.
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Problems occur when we tie our peace of mind to another’s state of mind.
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Mistakes are just ‘mis-takes,’ or an action that we took that missed.
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