You can’t ‘cope with’ change anymore than you can ‘manage’ stress.
BILL CRAWFORDCreating a meaningful life has less to do with how we feel about our past than what we do about our future.
More Bill Crawford Quotes
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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.
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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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If you want to change your life, you must change your mind and change your brain? on purpose.
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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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When people feel criticized, they almost always defend the behavior you want them to change.
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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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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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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.
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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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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.
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The journey of life is both too short and too precious to be sidetracked by guilt trips.
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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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Becoming critical in the face of criticism, only inspires more criticism.
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The most powerful times in our lives can be the time between times, or life’s transitions that give us the opportunity to choose.
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There are two ways to make someone important in our lives … we can either love them or hate them.
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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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You never want to tie your responsibility to another’s irresponsibility.
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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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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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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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One barrier to being a great parent is the mistaken belief that we are raising kids.
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To find the true cause of how you think and feel, find the ‘sponsoring thought’ that created the interpretation that created your experience of life.
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When dealing with problems, seek not to “change” some aspect of your life but instead, choose who you want to become as a path to what you want. Transformation and healing then take place as a process of becoming versus avoiding.
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Serenity is not just an escape, but a precursor to acceptance, courage, wisdom, and change.
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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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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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