Bill Crawford

Bill Crawford
able way influence
To influence others to change, you must be able to frame that change in terms of the future, and in a way that has value to all concerned.
revenge important resentment
Images of resentment and revenge only have us spending the precious moments of our lives imagining the 'other' as both dangerous and important!
organization leader training
Leaders should interact with everyone in their organization as if the interaction is being recorded and will be used as a training film on how to treat colleagues, coworkers, and customers.
influence knows
To influence others, we must know what is influencing them... and they must know that we get it.
happiness-and-success enough sabotage
Nothing will sabotage our happiness and success more thoroughly than the fear that we are not enough.
dementia
Let's not let our fear of dementia deepen our fear of dementia.
want permission our-lives
Freedom isn't about having permission to do whatever we want... it's about having the courage to do whatever fills our life with meaning.
wise forever action
A process for discernment: God is my ultimate source of truth and wisdom, and dwells forever at the center of my being. Therefore, any thought, emotion, or action that takes me further from my center can be neither truthful, nor wise.
team organization diversity
Diversity, or the state of being different, isn't the same as inclusion. One is a description of what is, while the other describes a style of interaction essential to effective teams and organizations.
quality safe kind
Love will keep us safe when we commit to choosing the kind of qualities, characteristics, and relationships that we would recommend to someone we love.
heart successful land
Living exclusively in the land of the head or the heart will always be a limiting, limited experience. The most successful among us have dual citizenship.
people want behavior
When people feel criticized, they almost always defend the behavior you want them to change.
worry glucose weight
Worry, shame, and fear can't be the energy with which we deal with food and weight. It only spurs us to eat more food and produce more glucose/sugar which gets stored as fat.
issues quality important
Regardless of what is being discussed . . . the issue is never more important than the quality of the interaction.