The Neuroscience of Control!
“Never make your highest purpose, or the most important thing in your life something that is outside of your control.”
~ Bill Crawford, PhD
The Real Problem With Change
“Change isn’t the problem. People can deal with change, they just can’t deal with being changed.”
~ Adapted from Peter Senge
The Key to Great Solutions – That Most Never Understand
“Great solutions include serenity and acceptance as the precursors to courage and change.”
~ Bill Crawford, PhD
Facing Our Fears
“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
What It Means to “Age”
“How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you were?”
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~ Satchel Paige
Words to Avoid!
“Avoid the words “have to” it says we have no choice. The truth is that 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!”
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~ Bill Crawford
Perspective… Will Created by Choice or by Chance
“Our perspective, or the meaning that we attach to our stories we tell ourselves makes us either bitter or better. I suggest we do this by choice, and not by chance.”
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~ Bill Crawford, PhD
The Neuroscience of Unhappiness
“The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.”
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~ Marcel Pagnol
The Neuroscience of Responding Vs. Reacting
“We don’t have to learn to react…it happens automatically. We do, however, want to learn to respond in a way that we would recommend to someone we love.”
~ Bill Crawford, PhD