Life from the Top of the Mind

"How do you keep people from jerking your chain? Don't give your chain to jerks!" ~ Bill Crawford (www.billcrawfordphd.com)

"Anxiety is experiencing failure in advance. Worry is not preparation. We can't access our best by fearing the worst." and, "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." ~ Seth Godin/Bill Crawford and Chinese Proverb (respectively) (www.billcrawfordphd.com)

"Worry doesn't empty tomorrow of its troubles… it empties today of its strength!" ~ Unknown (www.billcrawfordphd.com)

“That’s just common sense” is used by many to justify their perspective. However, how we “sense” or understand life varies greatly from individual to individual. Therefore, rather than needing to justify our “sense” as “common,” how about we just ensure that our perceptions are purposeful, and congruent with what we would recommend to someone we love? ~ Bill Crawford (www.billcrawfordphd.com)

“The problem with doing nothing is that it validates the fear that nothing can be done.” ~ Bill Crawford (www.billcrawfordphd.com)

"The question to ask each night before you go to bed: If I live every day the same way I did today, what kind of future would that create?" ~ Entrepreneur Magazine (www.billcrawfordphd.com)

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

When stress and anxiety have your system stuck in a brainstem loop… reboot. It’s I.T. for life! ~ Bill Crawford (www.billcrawfordphd.com)

"Each day befriend a single fear, and the miscellaneous terrors of being human will never join together to form such a morass of vague anxiety that it rules your life from the shadows of the unconscious. We learn to fly not by being fearless, but by the daily practice of courage." ~ Sam Keen (www.billcrawfordphd.com)

“Let’s not let our fear of dementia deepen our fear of dementia.” - Bill Crawford (www.billcrawfordphd.com)

"Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them." ~ Albert Einstein (www.billcrawfordphd.com)

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

"How old would you be if you didn't know how old you were?" ~ Satchel Paige (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)

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

"Nothing is meaningless… it's how we assign meaning to the past that determines how we experience the present, and future." ~ Bill Crawford (www.billcrawfordphd.com)

"The past is experience, the present experiment, and the future expectations. Use your experience in your experiments to achieve your expectations." ~ Unknown (www.billcrawfordphd.com)

"Becoming critical in the face of criticism, only inspires more criticism." ~ Bill Crawford (www.billcrawfordphd.com)

"Autonomy, Purpose, & Mastery: If you are having difficulty creating the life you want, chances are one or more of these are missing." ~ Bill Crawford (www.billcrawfordphd.com)

If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign? ~ Albert Einstein (www.billcrawfordphd.com)

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

"To influence others, we must first know what is influencing them… and they must know that we get it." ~ Bill Crawford (www.billcrawfordphd.com)

"To be influential in our conversations, we must first be aware of two things, (1) what do we want to bring to the conversation and (2) what do we want to bring out in others." ~ Bill Crawford (www.billcrawfordphd.com)