Life from the Top of the Mind

"You can't use anxiety to deal with your anxiety… it only makes you more anxious." - Bill Crawford (www. BillCrawfordPhD.com)

"Love will keep us safe when we commit to choosing the kind of qualities, characteristics, and relationships that we would recommend to someone we love." ~ Bill Crawford, Ph. D. (www.billcrawfordphd.com)

"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." ~ 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)

"What we feed our mind becomes the material with which we build our life." ~ Bill Crawford (www.billcrawfordphd.com)

"A healthy attitude is certainly contagious, but don't wait to catch it from others. Become a carrier!" ~ Adapted from Tom Stoppard (www.billcrawfordphd.com)

"Every job is a self-portrait of the person who does it. Autograph your work with excellence, regardless of the painters around you." ~ Anonymous (www.billcrawfordphd.com)

"Just because we have a thought, doesn't mean it is a thought worth having." ~ Bill Crawford, Ph. D. (wwwBillCrawfordPhD.com)

"There is more to life than simply increasing its speed." Mahatma Gandhi | www.billcrawfordphd.com

"When creativity is under the gun... it usually ends up getting killed!" - Harvard Business Review | www. BillCrawfordPhD.com

"Many of us go from being taken care of as children to taking care of others as adults. Shouldn't there be a time when we learn to take care of ourselves?" - Bill Crawford, Ph. D. | www.billcrawfordphd.com

"We cannot discover new lands until we first have the courage to lose sight of the shore." ~ Adapted from Andre Gide - www. BillCrawfordPhD.com

"The problem with always keeping your nose to the grindstone is that pretty soon, all you smell is grind." ~ Steve Butler | www.billcrawfordphd.com

"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." ~ Bill Crawford, Ph. D. www.billcrawfordphd.com

"Mistakes are just "mis-takes," or an action that we took that missed." ~ Bill Crawford | There is another way to learn from mistakes other than feeling bad. www. BillCrawfordPhD.com

"Freedom isn't about having permission to do whatever we want ... t's about having the courage to do whatever fills our life with meaning. ~ Bill Crawford | Tired of needing to ask permission to do what you want? Watch this! www.billcrawfordphd.com

"There's no such thing as a 'stressful' situation" ~ Bill Crawford | Watch this to see why you want to drop the term "stressful" from your vocabulary. www.billcrawfordphd.com

"Never define people or situations in terms of their effect on you, unless you want to give them the power to make you feel that way." ~ Bill Crawford | Never describe others in terms of their effect on you. www.billcrawfordphd.com

"The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place." ~ George Bernard Shaw | What's the #1 problem is with communication?

"Wisdom is our reward for being willing to listen... all those times when we prefer to talk." ~ Adapted from D.J. Kaufman | What if listening actually improved our ability to be influential when disagreements arise? www.billcphd.com

"Setting healthy boundaries may require that we reclaim personal properties that we may have unwittingly deeded to others in the past." ~ Steve Butler | What if setting healthy boundaries wasn't about protecting one's self, but becoming the landlord of our "land"?

"Our success and happiness depends not on simply knowing where we stand, but in where we are wanting to go." ~ Bill Crawford, PhD, www. BillCrawfordPhd.com, In order to bring our best to life, we must be clear about what that "best" looks like regardless of the situation

"Never define yourself in terms of how you are negatively affected by others."-Bill Crawford, Ph. D. www. BillCrawfordPhD.com -When our desire for agreement (or fear of disagreement) interferes with what we feel in our gut...

"Never define yourself in terms of how you are negatively affected by others." Check out this video on minimizing the effect "annoying" people have in our lives.

Every connection creates change. The only questions are: How will they be different, and how will we be different as a result? - Adapted from Seth Godin