Craig Dial
@stopcoping.com
Trying to create and hold spaces where we can work as our whole selves. Responsibility Mentor, coach, partner, and parent.
Break the habit of starting too many things and pay down your 'starting debt'
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Starting Debt
Understand the concept of starting debt. Learn how incomplete tasks affect productivity and team dynamics.
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November 20, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Break the habit of starting too many things and pay down your 'starting debt'
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Try practicing Kerth's Prime Directive towards yourself
"Regardless of what I discover, I understand and truly believe I did the best job I could, given what I knew at the time, my skills and abilities, the resources available, and the situation at hand."
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"Regardless of what I discover, I understand and truly believe I did the best job I could, given what I knew at the time, my skills and abilities, the resources available, and the situation at hand."
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Prime Self-Directive
Discover the power of the prime directive for self-reflection and ownership of your decisions and outcomes.
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November 11, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Try practicing Kerth's Prime Directive towards yourself
"Regardless of what I discover, I understand and truly believe I did the best job I could, given what I knew at the time, my skills and abilities, the resources available, and the situation at hand."
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"Regardless of what I discover, I understand and truly believe I did the best job I could, given what I knew at the time, my skills and abilities, the resources available, and the situation at hand."
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End of Year
The end of year can be stressful and busy. Maybe you have the opportunity to work with a coach who can support you?
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The end of year can be stressful and busy. Maybe you have the opportunity to work with a coach who can support you?
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End of Year - Stop Coping
This could be the right time to improve your performance and your ability to grow by engaging a coach. Grab the opportunity!
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November 10, 2025 at 2:19 AM
End of Year
The end of year can be stressful and busy. Maybe you have the opportunity to work with a coach who can support you?
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The end of year can be stressful and busy. Maybe you have the opportunity to work with a coach who can support you?
stopcoping.com/2025/11/10/e...
What would happen if you told the critical voice inside your head to shut up?
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What would happen - Stop Coping
Can you stop listening to the voice inside your head that criticizes and invalidates you? Tell it to pipe down.
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October 3, 2025 at 6:05 PM
What would happen if you told the critical voice inside your head to shut up?
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Do you get caught up feeling like you're "supposed to be" someone different?
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Authentic - Stop Coping
“I want to meet you as you are, not as you ought to be.” — Virginia Satir
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October 2, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Do you get caught up feeling like you're "supposed to be" someone different?
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“Wait. Manhood is patience. Mastery is nine times patience.”
-- Ursula K. LeGuin, "A Wizard of Earthsea"
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-- Ursula K. LeGuin, "A Wizard of Earthsea"
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Patience - Stop Coping
“Wait. Manhood is patience. Mastery is nine times patience.” Master patience to lessen your stress, and increase freedom, choice, and power.
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October 1, 2025 at 4:27 PM
“Wait. Manhood is patience. Mastery is nine times patience.”
-- Ursula K. LeGuin, "A Wizard of Earthsea"
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-- Ursula K. LeGuin, "A Wizard of Earthsea"
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When big changes come, they often come with "marching orders" instead of context. Unlocking the context will improve the situation immensely.
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Context - Stop Coping
Big changes often come with "marching orders" and "because I said so." Get past that to unlock important context.
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September 30, 2025 at 5:24 PM
When big changes come, they often come with "marching orders" instead of context. Unlocking the context will improve the situation immensely.
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Your attachment to roadmaps and plans causes most of the stress and pain.
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Attachment - Stop Coping
Your attachment to roadmaps, plans, and milestones creates most of the stress around large projects. Break the habit.
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September 29, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Your attachment to roadmaps and plans causes most of the stress and pain.
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"Freedom of Choice is what you got,
Freedom from Choice is what you want" - Devo
When you get stuck coping, you want freedom _from_ choice.
Keep your power and your choice.
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Freedom from Choice is what you want" - Devo
When you get stuck coping, you want freedom _from_ choice.
Keep your power and your choice.
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Freedom from Choice - Stop Coping
Coping gives you freedom _from_ choice. Confront the real problem and achieve freedom and power of choice.
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September 24, 2025 at 2:54 PM
"Freedom of Choice is what you got,
Freedom from Choice is what you want" - Devo
When you get stuck coping, you want freedom _from_ choice.
Keep your power and your choice.
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Freedom from Choice is what you want" - Devo
When you get stuck coping, you want freedom _from_ choice.
Keep your power and your choice.
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You are bigger than any problem that comes your way. It's just hard to believe in it.
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Bigger than Any Problem - Stop Coping
You are bigger than any problem that occurs in your life. There are a lot of problems that don’t feel that way. Problems that feel as big as the world, sometimes. How can you really be bigger than all...
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September 23, 2025 at 11:44 PM
You are bigger than any problem that comes your way. It's just hard to believe in it.
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When your plans get changed, can you probe the new reality to find a path forward?
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Plans, Punches, Pressure, and Probes - Stop Coping
Plans changing can feel like getting punched. What kind of pressure does that create, and and how can you probe the change?
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September 22, 2025 at 7:16 PM
When your plans get changed, can you probe the new reality to find a path forward?
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You make and are impacted by decisions constantly. How can you make them better?
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Decisions - Stop Coping
You make dozens if not hundreds of decisions daily. Thousands if you count all the subconscious ones like when to hit each key, how far to move your mouse, etc. Consider just the active, conscious cho...
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August 30, 2025 at 8:44 PM
You make and are impacted by decisions constantly. How can you make them better?
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Your work is more than a slot machine that you hope pays off with raises and promotions
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Slots - Stop Coping
Have you ever played games that feel like you’re just “so close” to winning, and then the wrong thing happens? You get the wrong shaped blocks, or the wrong multiplier pops up, or some other ‘unlucky’...
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August 28, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Your work is more than a slot machine that you hope pays off with raises and promotions
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Feeling needs creates stress in our bodies.
Turning those needs into wants frees us from the stress.
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Turning those needs into wants frees us from the stress.
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Needs and Wants - Stop Coping
Feeling needs adds stress to your life about things that are not essential to your existence. Turn that stress into power and peace by focusing on wants.
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August 19, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Feeling needs creates stress in our bodies.
Turning those needs into wants frees us from the stress.
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Turning those needs into wants frees us from the stress.
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Thinking about leaving a job?
Hearing "Should I Stay or Should I Go" by the Clash in your head?
Maybe this can help
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Hearing "Should I Stay or Should I Go" by the Clash in your head?
Maybe this can help
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Should I Stay or Should I Go - Stop Coping
Stay or Go Ever think about leaving the place you’ve been working? End up singing The Clash in your head? “Should I stay or should I go now?” Sometimes you’ve left. Others, you’ve stayed. It can be ha...
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August 18, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Thinking about leaving a job?
Hearing "Should I Stay or Should I Go" by the Clash in your head?
Maybe this can help
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Hearing "Should I Stay or Should I Go" by the Clash in your head?
Maybe this can help
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Do you get caught up wearing "correcting" lenses?
Where everything you see is either right or wrong?
Take off your correcting lenses.
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Where everything you see is either right or wrong?
Take off your correcting lenses.
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Correcting Lenses - Stop Coping
your correcting lenses invalidate others, and make them “incorrect.” That’s a terrible place to put another human being.
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August 13, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Do you get caught up wearing "correcting" lenses?
Where everything you see is either right or wrong?
Take off your correcting lenses.
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Where everything you see is either right or wrong?
Take off your correcting lenses.
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How much time do you spend thinking about what's "wrong" with your performance? Or with yourself?
That's waste.
Learn to correct without "wronging" yourself.
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That's waste.
Learn to correct without "wronging" yourself.
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The Waste of "Wrong" - Stop Coping
“That was wrong” What percentage of your time do you spend thinking about what’s wrong with your performance? With you? Any number greater than zero is waste. This feels counterintuitive. Maybe even “...
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August 12, 2025 at 2:49 PM
How much time do you spend thinking about what's "wrong" with your performance? Or with yourself?
That's waste.
Learn to correct without "wronging" yourself.
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That's waste.
Learn to correct without "wronging" yourself.
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Feel like everything goes by so fast, and remembering last week is like a blur?
Stop sprinting past your life.
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Stop sprinting past your life.
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Sprinting Past Your Life - Stop Coping
Stop sprinting past your life, use segment intention to be fully present, to escape the hamster wheel, and to enjoy life.
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August 12, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Feel like everything goes by so fast, and remembering last week is like a blur?
Stop sprinting past your life.
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Stop sprinting past your life.
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Ever get caught in arguments that feel like the Monty Python sketch? Putting curiosity first can help you escape.
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Escaping Room 12A - Stop Coping
Stuck arguing? You can learn to be curious, and escape the arguments. A Coach can help you learn and practice.
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August 7, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Ever get caught in arguments that feel like the Monty Python sketch? Putting curiosity first can help you escape.
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Want to ditch old habits that keep you coping, and play a bigger game? Consider me as your coach. stopcoping.com/2025/08/06/p...
Put Me In, Coach - Stop Coping
Coaching can help you grow when everyone else is shrinking. It can help you get in the game you want to be playing. Stop coping, start growing.
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August 6, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Want to ditch old habits that keep you coping, and play a bigger game? Consider me as your coach. stopcoping.com/2025/08/06/p...
Your unchallenged beliefs are limiting you. Learn more about how that happens and how to let them go here - stopcoping.com/2025/07/29/e...
Escaping Limiting Beliefs - Stop Coping
You deal with beliefs that limit your potential and your future all the time. By looking at one possible set of limiting beliefs, you can see how to escape that trap.
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July 29, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Your unchallenged beliefs are limiting you. Learn more about how that happens and how to let them go here - stopcoping.com/2025/07/29/e...
7 DAYS
Want to create positive change in your life?
Handle upsets and problems with confidence, clarity, and success?
Stop coping and start growing?
Responsibility Immersion begins on March 5th.
Choose, create, and attract more of what you want.
Find out more at responsibility.com/yhzh
Want to create positive change in your life?
Handle upsets and problems with confidence, clarity, and success?
Stop coping and start growing?
Responsibility Immersion begins on March 5th.
Choose, create, and attract more of what you want.
Find out more at responsibility.com/yhzh
February 26, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Want to create positive change in your life?
Handle upsets and problems with confidence, clarity, and success?
Stop coping and start growing?
Responsibility Immersion begins on March 5th.
Choose, create, and attract more of what you want.
Find out more at responsibility.com/yhzh
Want to create positive change in your life?
Handle upsets and problems with confidence, clarity, and success?
Stop coping and start growing?
Responsibility Immersion begins on March 5th.
Choose, create, and attract more of what you want.
Find out more at responsibility.com/yhzh