One More Way to Affect Others
“Our ’emotional wake’ is how we affect others after we have left the room. Let’s make sure we are creating this effect on purpose.”
~ Bill Crawford
Dealing with Disappointment
“There are too many people in the world today who decide to live disappointed rather than risk feeling disappointment.”
~ Brené Brown
Justifiable Anger!
“Physiologically, it simply doesn’t matter whether our anger or resentment is justified. The body doesn’t make moral judgments about feelings… it just reacts.”
~ Adapted from Doc Lew Childre, Jr.
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