Life from the Top of the Mind

Becoming "Resolute" - The Power of "I Am" As We Go Into The New Year & Beyond - “ I will" is a statement that merely speaks to some intention in the future... to influence your life in the most powerful way now, begin with the words "I am." ~ Bill Crawford

"When" To Deal With Problems Can Be Just As Important As "How" - "When we put problems on the back burner, often they just sit there and burn." Georgia Crawford

How To Influence The Most Influential Aspect Of Our Lives - "Just because we have a thought, doesn't mean it is a thought worth having." Bill Crawford, Ph. D.

"Want to change your experience of life? Change the problem to the practice field." - Bill Crawford Ph. D. www. BillCrawfordPhD.com

Never Tie Your Responsibility To Another's Irresponsibility - "You never want to tie your responsibility to another's irresponsibility."

Becoming "More Serious" Often Results in Our Kids Becoming Less Cooperative. “The cooperative, creative, and flexible parts of your children reside in the joyful part of their brain." ~ Bill Crawford & "Do not train children to learn by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of...

"Trusting fear, while fearing trust and happiness often creates a less than happy life."

"Change isn't always easy, but with purposeful practice, any old habit can be replaced with a way of being we would recommend to those we love." Bill Crawford, Ph. D. www. BillCrawfordPhD.com

The key to a child's self-esteem - Know this - Children don't know that they are lovable until they are loved. They need to see it in our eyes before they can accept it in their hearts.

Dr. Bill talks about how to shift from being effected by life, to becoming the cause! "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!"

"When the question is either/or, the answer is almost always?both/and." - Dr. Bill Explains How Masculine & Feminine Energy Can Create Misunderstandings In Relationships, & What We Can Do About It

"The most powerful times in our lives can be the time between times, or life's transitions that give us the opportunity to choose." Dr. Bill identifies yet another opportunity to become more influential in our experience of life.

"All of life is an announcement of who we are. The only question is whether this proclamation will be made by choice or by chance." Check out this video from Dr. Bill on how we can be more influential in our lives and the lives of others.

Dr. Crawford gives us THE secret to acing an interview. It all has to do with knowing our self worth.

"There are only three things we 'have to' do in this world... we have to be born, we have to die, and we have to live until we die. Everything else is a choice!" Check out this video to see how we can become more influential in the choices we make.

Psychologist, Dr. Bill Crawford, looks at our tendency to see our worries as certainties, and hope and optimism as risky. He suggests that, not only is this belief inaccurate, it can be keeping us from achieving our goals and leaves us trapped in the reactive part of the brain.

In this video Dr. Bill looks at change and dealing with problems, not in terms what to stop, but what to start.

Dr. Crawford gives us some tips on how to deal with negative people, or as his weekly quote says, "Problems Occur When We Tie our Peace of Mind to Another's State of Mind." - Bill Crawford, Ph. D. Read more about his unique philosophy at www. BillCrawfordPhD.com.

Dr. Bill Crawford gives us his take on what we need to be successful in this new economy.

Most of us have experienced disapproving of another's behavior and letting them know of our disapproval, only to have them begin to defend the very behavior we want them to change. Unfortunately, this often sparks more disapproval on our part (which the other person interprets as criticism,) and the cycle of conflict is created and exacerbated.

If you have ever been frustrated by bad customer service, check out this video by Psychologist, Bill Crawford, Ph. D. on how to improve your chances of getting great customer service in the future.

This quote came to me as I became increasingly aware of how problematic it can be to create the life we want when we don't know our own value. In other words, when we are unclear about why someone would want us as a part of their organization and/or want us as a relationship partner, friend, husband, wife, etc., we will always be looking to others to "fill in the blanks," so to speak.

As the father of two boys and an author of a book on parenting ("How to Get Kids to do What You Want!"), I found this quote on the difference between procreation and parenting to be especially meaningful. Unfortunately, in my humble opinion, this distinction isn't shared by most people. In other words, the conventional wisdom is that once someone has a baby, they are by definition "a parent," and...

Hello loyal viewers:-) This week's video is on knowing when to stop, or how to listen to our body's signals so that we don't over work, over eat, and/or "over talk" when we are wanting to convince someone of something - Leave a comment and tell your friends if you find this valuable:-) Bill - www. BillCrawfordPhD.com

Psychologist, Dr. Bill Crawford looks at the effect practice, or doing something over and over has on our lives. Given this effect, and the fact that we are always practicing something, Dr. Crawford suggests that we become more purposeful with our practice, and learn to enjoy the process.