Dealing with Past Mistakes “Golden Repair”
“Nothing is meaningless… it’s how we assign meaning to the past that determines how we experience the present, and future.”
~ Bill Crawford
What to Do When You Feel Stressed or Anxious
“All of life is a cycle of cause and effect. In order to break the cycle of stress and frustration we must do more than just change the cause or change the effect… we must become the cause.”
~ Bill Crawford
Avoid This At All Costs!
“If our goal is to be influential, we must first ensure that those we wish to influence can’t put ‘You Stupid Idiot’ on the end of anything we say.”
~ Bill Crawford
Using the Brain to Strengthen Our Immune System and Get to Sleep!
“Neuroscience tells us that our state of mind affects our body’s ability to fight off illness and get the sleep we need. Therefore, we must be purposeful about the former to be effective in the latter.”
~ Bill Crawford
Interpersonal Neurobiology – The Key to Being Heard and Understood
“While we are not responsible for other people’s reactions, we do play a role in how their brain interprets what we do and say, and this will determine our influence.”
~ Bill Crawford
Creating A Resistance To Shame
“As long as we use shame as a driver for self-improvement, or to learn from the past, we will forever be trying to do good by feeling bad… not a very effective strategy.”
~ Bill Crawford
How to Deal with Problematic Triggers
“In order to have as much influence as possible in our life and the lives of others, we must be careful (full of care) not to mistake the “what” (or the triggers in our life) for the “why” (the cause, or reason we react the way we do).”
~ Bill Crawford
The Problem with Getting Triggered by Unimportant People
“When we give unimportant people the power to trigger us, we make them the most important person in our life!”
~ Bill Crawford
Why Are People So Hard Headed?
“When attempting to convince or influence others, unless what we are saying resonates with how they see the world, what they care about, and how they see themselves, the only thing we are convincing them of is that we don’t get it.”
~ Adapted from Lisa Cron