How to Use Questions to Deal With Negative Emotions
“When feeling angry, worried or frustrated, what if we are asking ourselves the wrong questions?”
~ Bill Crawford
The Neuroscience of Stress
“Stress is what happens when your gut says ‘no way,’ but your mouth says ‘no problem’.”
~ Unknown
The Neuroscience of Self-Determination
“Regardless of the problem, as long as our solution requires someone else to change, we will never know the power and promise of self-determination.”
~ Bill Crawford
Dealing With People We Don’t Like
“The test of our humanity, is the ability to have compassion for the people we know well enough not to like.”
~ Adapted from the play After Ashley by Gina Gionfriddo
Knowing When to Stop!
“Sometimes knowing what to do is knowing when to stop.”
~ Bill Crawford
The Neuroscience of Motivation
“The thing that kills motivation is, when thinking of a goal, people want to be the person who has done it versus the person doing it.”
~ Bill Crawford
Do We Trust What We Fear or What We Know?
“When faced with conflicting thoughts and emotions, we must decide what to trust, what we fear, or what we know. What’s important is that this decision be made by the knowledgeable versus the anxious part of the brain!.”
~ Bill Crawford
Helping Students Deal with Anxiety
“Given that students are experiencing increasing anxiety today, isn’t up to us to give them the information and tools they need to succeed?”
~ Bill Crawford
The Neuroscience of Responsibility
“In order for people to take responsibility for their actions, we need to remove the fear of blame and shame from the equation.”
~ Bill Crawford