Life from the Top of the Mind

"True confidence is the willingness to have our answers questioned." ~ Unknown (www.billcrawfordphd.com)

"If we carry old bricks from our past to our future, we will end up being weighed down by situations and people we really want to forget." ~ Bill Crawford (www.billcrawfordphd.com)

"Ships don't sink because of the water around them; ships sink because of the water that gets in them. Don't let what's happening around you get inside you and weigh you down." ~ Unknown (www.billcrawfordphd.com)

"The Mind is a Powerful Force. It Can Enslave us or Empower Us. It Can Plunge us into the Depths of Misery or Take Us To the Heights of Ecstasy. Learn to Use the Power Wisely." ~ David Cuschieri (www.billcrawfordphd.com)

"True confidence is the ability to listen to almost anyone or anything without losing your temper or your perspective.” ~ Bill Crawford (www.billcrawfordphd.com)

"Bitterness does more harm to the vessel in which it is stored... than the vessel on which it is poured." ~ Unknown (www.billcrawfordphd.com)

"Life gets better when we choose the desire to influence over the need to control." ~ Bill Crawford (www.billcrawfordphd.com)

"I wonder how much of what is weighing us down is truly ours to carry?" ~ Adapted from Aditi (www.billcrawfordphd.com)

"'Peeves' make lousy pets. They bite, eat too much, crap all over the place, and don't clean up after themselves." ~ Adapted from Seth Godin (www.billcrawfordphd.com)

"Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by a lack of meaning and purpose." ~ Victor Frankl (www.billcrawfordphd.com)

"Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by a lack of meaning and purpose." ~ Victor Frankl (www.billcrawfordphd.com)

"Money is like energy, it should be conserved with purpose to serve with purpose." ~ Bill Crawford (www.billcrawfordphd.com)

"Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit (even failure)." ~ Adapted from E.E. Cummings (www.billcrawfordphd.com)

"Worry doesn’t empty tomorrow of its troubles… it empties today of its strength!” ~ Corrie Ten Boom (www.billcrawfordphd.com)

"We can't have constructive conversations with others while having destructive conversations with ourselves." ~ Bill Crawford (www.billcrawfordphd.com)

"Remembering the best of the past can provide a foundation for a wonderful future… it's all about appreciation and application." ~ Bill Crawford (www.billcrawfordphd.com)

"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now." ~ Chinese Proverb (www.billcrawfordphd.com)

"That the birds of worry and anxiety fly over our heads, this you cannot change, but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent." ~ Chinese Proverb (www.billcrawfordphd.com)

"If I lived everyday the way I lived today... what kind of future would I create?" ~ Entrepreneur Magazine (www.billcrawfordphd.com)

“Never let the 'issue du jour' obscure what is really important.” ~ Bill Crawford (www.billcrawfordphd.com)

"Superiority Has An Inferiority Complex" ~ Duke Rohe (www.billcrawfordphd.com)

"Worrying about things going wrong isn't the way to make them go right." True, & not true. ~ Unknown (www.billcrawfordphd.com)

"You can't change what's going on around you until you change what's going on within you." ~ Zig Ziglar (www.billcrawfordphd.com)

"Under all anger is fear, and under all fear is fear of loss." ~ Unknown (www.billcrawfordphd.com)

"True confidence is the ability to own and learn from our mistakes, without the prospect of shame or blame." ~ Bill Crawford (www.billcrawfordphd.com)