Life from the Top of the Mind

"Let's be sure to taste our words before we spit them out." ~ Unknown (www.billcrawfordphd.com)

“Looking for the internal 'how' versus the external 'why' is one key to creating the life we want. We will have more success in influencing the world around us if we start with the world within.” ~ Bill Crawford (www.billcrawfordphd.com)

"One key to creating a life worth living is to practice responding to challenging situations on purpose until these responses become reactions." ~ Bill Crawford (www.billcrawfordphd.com)

"Confidence is the ability to understand another's perspective without needing to accept or reject it in order to move from conflict to consensus." ~ Bill Crawford (www.billcrawfordphd.com)

"To understand ourself, we must understand our "selves," or the parts of us that motivate our thoughts, decisions, and behaviors." ~ Bill Crawford (www.billcrawfordphd.com)

"The way to encourage people to be accountable is to engage the responsible, accountable, trustworthy part of their brain." ~ Bill Crawford (www.billcrawfordphd.com)

"What if we tweeted everyone the way we like to be tweeted?" ~ Adapted from Miri Rodriquez (www.billcrawfordphd.com)

"A belief is not merely an idea that the mind possesses, it is an idea that possesses the mind." ~ Robert Oxton Bolt (www.billcrawfordphd.com)

"When the storms of life hit, the resilient simply adjust their sails." ~ Bill Crawford (www.billcrawfordphd.com)

"Sometimes, the best way to solve a problem is to stop participating in the problem.” ~ Jonathan Meed (www.billcrawfordphd.com)

"Deciding who and what to trust is an essential step in claiming and creating our lives as adults." ~ Bill Crawford (www.billcrawfordphd.com)

“We are what we repeatedly do. Good habits, once established, are just as hard to break as bad habits.” ~ Aristotle & Robert Puller (www.billcrawfordphd.com)

"Simply striving for achievement can create a life of strife, punctuated by momentary victories, while a life of fulfillment imbues each moment with joy and meaning. Quite an achievement, don't you think?" ~ Bill Crawford (www.billcrawfordphd.com)

“Here is to that part of all of us that is not meant to be caged… the part that dreams, strives, bucks the system, dares to imagine what is possible, and relishes the process of bringing those dreams to fruition.” ~Bill Crawford (www.billcrawfordphd.com)

"What’s The Most Important Thing In Your Life?" ~Bill Crawford (www.billcrawfordphd.com)

To worry or not to worry… What if the answer is neither?” ~ Bill Crawford (www.billcrawfordphd.com)

"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." ~ Bill Crawford (www.billcrawfordphd.com)

"When truth is what we are looking for, let's make sure we are not trusting the "fake news" part of the brain." ~ Bill Crawford (www.billcrawfordphd.com)

"You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with." ~ Wayne Dyer (www.billcrawfordphd.com)

"Patience isn't simply the ability to wait, but the ability to keep a good attitude while waiting." ~ Joyce Meyer (www.billcrawfordphd.com)

"Every successful person begins with two beliefs… that the future can be better than the present, and that I have the power to make it so." ~ David Brooks (www.billcrawfordphd.com)

"Serenity is the precursor to acceptance, courage, wisdom & change." ~ Bill Crawford (www.billcrawfordphd.com)

"Leadership is always more caught than taught." ~ Unknown (www.billcrawfordphd.com)

"The secret to happiness is a high tolerance for ambiguity." ~ Sam Buser, Ph. D. (www.billcrawfordphd.com)

Four Questions That Can Change Your Life! Or, The Four Criteria 1. Am I doing/feeling/thinking this on purpose? 2. How's it working for me? 3. Is this the way I want to be defined? 4. Would I teach this way of being to someone that I love?