Bill Crawford Quotes

Regardless of what is being discussed . . . the issue is never more important than the quality of the interaction.
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Important Issues Quality
When we engage people positively, we create a receptive platform for the ideas and information we wish to communicate.
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Ideas People Wish
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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Energy Shame Spurs Worry
Living 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.
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Heart Land Successful
Problems occur when we tie our peace of mind to another’s state of mind.
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Mind Problem Ties
When stress and anxiety have your system stuck in a brainstem loop? Reboot. It’s I.T. for life!
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Anxiety Stress Stuck
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.
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Goal Love Meaningful
The problem with lethargy is that doing nothing validates the fear that nothing can be done.
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Doing Done Nothing Problem
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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Order Pain Painful Past Serve
There’s no such thing as a ‘stressful’ situation.
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Decision Situations Stressful
Family is the place where acceptance and validation are most needed, but often the hardest to find.
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Acceptance Hardest Validation
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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Determination Long Self
There are two ways to make someone important in our lives … we can either love them or hate them.
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Hate Important Two
You can’t ‘cope with’ change anymore than you can ‘manage’ stress.
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Change Manage Stress
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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Color Events Past
Meaning isn’t something we discover, it is what we bring to life, either by choice or by chance.
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Chance Choices Meaning
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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Aspect Mind People
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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Awareness Expectations Keys
Nothing destroys a relationship quicker than our fears of inadequacy and loss.
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Inadequacy Loss Nothing Relationship
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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Magic Potters Use
Creating a meaningful life has less to do with how we feel about our past than what we do about our future.
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Creating Meaningful Past
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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Influential Order Views
It’s not simply what we feel, but what we feed, that determines what we do and how we live.
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Determined Feels Simply
We limit our success when we mistake the limits of our perception for reality.
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Mistake Perception Reality
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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Care Giving Quality
The problem with righteous indignation is that even when you’re right, you’re still left feeling indignant.
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Feelings Problems Righteous
Never make your highest purpose, or the most important thing in your life something that is outside of your control.
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Highest Important Purpose Sometimes

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