One barrier to being a great parent is the mistaken belief that we are raising kids.
BILL CRAWFORDLiving 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.
More Bill Crawford Quotes
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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.
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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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The problem with righteous indignation is that even when you’re right, you’re still left feeling indignant.
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Mistakes are just ‘mis-takes,’ or an action that we took that missed.
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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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Peace of Mind? Don’t leave home (or go home) without it.
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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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There’s no such thing as a ‘stressful’ situation.
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You can’t use anxiety to deal with your anxiety it only makes you more anxious.
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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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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 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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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.
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The most successful form of correction is when the “other” feels informed versus chastised.
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