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.
BILL CRAWFORDBecoming critical in the face of criticism, only inspires more criticism.
More Bill Crawford Quotes
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The only time a mistake becomes a failure is when we look for someone to blame.
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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.
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The most successful form of correction is when the “other” feels informed versus chastised.
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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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You can’t fight fire with fire, or fear with fear.
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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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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.
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Want to change your experience of life? Change the problem to the practice field.
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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 stress and anxiety have your system stuck in a brainstem loop? Reboot. It’s I.T. for life!
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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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Sometimes knowing what to do is knowing when to stop.
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When people feel criticized, they almost always defend the behavior you want them to change.
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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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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.
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What we feed our mind becomes the material with which we build our life.
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When our purpose becomes avoidance, our life becomes a void.
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One barrier to being a great parent is the mistaken belief that we are raising kids.
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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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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!
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Children don’t know that they are lovable until they are loved. They need to see it in our eyes before they can accept it in their hearts.
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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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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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Selfish is caring for ourselves at others’ expense … Self-care is taking care of ourselves so that we can be there for others.
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Fear of feeling bad rarely makes one feel good.
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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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