Bill Crawford Quotes
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Making changes isn't about stopping the problem, it's about starting the solution.
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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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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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Realistic optimism allows us to experience the best until we have to deal with the worst ... which often, never comes.
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To influence others to change, you must be able to frame that change in terms of the future, and in a way that has value to all concerned.
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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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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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All of life presents itself as a cycle of cause and effect. When this cycle is negative, there are three ways to change. You can change the cause, change the effect, or choose the most powerful option become the cause!
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Serenity is not just an escape, but a precursor to acceptance, courage, wisdom, and change.
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As long as we define stress as how some person or situation is making us feel, we will have to change the world around us to find peace of mind.
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Our success and happiness depends not on simply knowing where we stand, but in where we are wanting to go.
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Sometimes our ability to accept what we can't change is tied to our willingness to change what we can.
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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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You can't use anxiety to deal with your anxiety it only makes you more anxious.
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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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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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The key to self-confidence is knowing that you would choose you... and why. In this way the chosen becomes the chooser, and love versus fear becomes the energy of choice.
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All connections are infused with dreams of what is possible in the future. Thus, when we lose something or someone important to us, we aren't just grieving the loss, we are grieving the shattered dream.
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Fear of feeling bad rarely makes one feel good.
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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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Mistakes are just 'mis-takes,' or an action that we took that missed.
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When our worries and fears just don't make sense, it's possible we are trusting the part of the brain that doesn't make sense... it just reacts.
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Change isn't about what you are stopping... it's about what you are starting.
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Perspective 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.
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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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The problem with righteous indignation is that even when you're right, you're still left feeling indignant.
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Want to change your experience of life? Change the problem to the practice field.
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Let's not let our fear of dementia deepen our fear of dementia.
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When 'Being Rushed' is the problem . . . Rushing is never the solution.
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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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