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Craig Dial

@stopcoping.com
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Trying to create and hold spaces where we can work as our whole selves. Responsibility Mentor, coach, partner, and parent.

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Craig Dial @stopcoping.com · 24/04/2026
I mean, all he needs is a drinking problem and he’ll qualify for a position in the Liquor Cabinet.
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Craig Dial @stopcoping.com · 31/03/2026
Find yourself catastrophizing when things go wrong? Looking at the worst possible outcomes, no matter how unlikely? That's a coping mechanism. You can let that go. stopcoping.com/2026/03/31/c...
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Catastrophizing Is Coping
Do you catastrophize when things go wrong? Look for the worst possible outcomes? That's a coping strategy that keeps you stuck.
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Craig Dial @stopcoping.com · 09/12/2025
The Illusion of Control blocks your Agency and your ability to take ownership of your life. stopcoping.com/2025/12/08/a...
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Agency and the Illusion of Control
Don't fall for the illusion of control. Agency in your life is the key to power. Take ownership, not control.
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Craig Dial @stopcoping.com · 20/11/2025
Break the habit of starting too many things and pay down your 'starting debt' stopcoping.com/2025/11/20/s...
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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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Craig Dial @stopcoping.com · 11/11/2025
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." stopcoping.com/2025/11/11/p...
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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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Craig Dial @stopcoping.com · 10/11/2025
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? stopcoping.com/2025/11/10/e...
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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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Craig Dial @stopcoping.com · 30/10/2025
Flip your approach to analyzing risk! stopcoping.com/2025/10/30/r...
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Risk - Stop Coping
Ask questions about what enables useful and beneficial things to happen, rather than putting the “bad” stuff under the microscope.
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Craig Dial @stopcoping.com · 03/10/2025
What would happen if you told the critical voice inside your head to shut up? stopcoping.com/2025/10/03/w...
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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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Craig Dial @stopcoping.com · 02/10/2025
Do you get caught up feeling like you're "supposed to be" someone different? stopcoping.com/2025/10/02/a...
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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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Craig Dial @stopcoping.com · 01/10/2025
“Wait. Manhood is patience. Mastery is nine times patience.” -- Ursula K. LeGuin, "A Wizard of Earthsea" stopcoping.com/2025/10/01/p...
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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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Craig Dial @stopcoping.com · 30/09/2025
When big changes come, they often come with "marching orders" instead of context. Unlocking the context will improve the situation immensely. stopcoping.com/2025/09/30/c...
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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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Craig Dial @stopcoping.com · 29/09/2025
Your attachment to roadmaps and plans causes most of the stress and pain. stopcoping.com/2025/09/29/a...
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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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Craig Dial @stopcoping.com · 26/09/2025
Wrap up your week, celebrate your wins, and go enjoy your weekend. stopcoping.com/2025/09/26/w...
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Wrap Up - Stop Coping
It's Friday. Wrap up work, celebrate your wins, and honor the boundary between work time and the rest of your life.
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Craig Dial @stopcoping.com · 25/09/2025
Do you treat yourself as well as those you love? stopcoping.com/2025/09/25/s...
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Self - Stop Coping
Do you treat others in your life better than yourself? Treat yourself the way you treat those you love, turn off the inner critic.
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Craig Dial @stopcoping.com · 24/09/2025
"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. stopcoping.com/2025/09/24/f...
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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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Craig Dial @stopcoping.com · 24/09/2025
You are bigger than any problem that comes your way. It's just hard to believe in it. stopcoping.com/2025/09/23/b...
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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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Craig Dial @stopcoping.com · 22/09/2025
When your plans get changed, can you probe the new reality to find a path forward? stopcoping.com/2025/09/22/p...
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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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Craig Dial @stopcoping.com · 30/08/2025
You make and are impacted by decisions constantly. How can you make them better? stopcoping.com/2025/08/25/d...
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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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Craig Dial @stopcoping.com · 28/08/2025
Your work is more than a slot machine that you hope pays off with raises and promotions stopcoping.com/2025/08/28/s...
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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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Craig Dial @stopcoping.com · 19/08/2025
Feeling needs creates stress in our bodies. Turning those needs into wants frees us from the stress. stopcoping.com/2025/08/19/n...
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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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Craig Dial @stopcoping.com · 18/08/2025
Thinking about leaving a job? Hearing "Should I Stay or Should I Go" by the Clash in your head? Maybe this can help stopcoping.com/2025/08/18/s...
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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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Craig Dial @stopcoping.com · 13/08/2025
Do you get caught up wearing "correcting" lenses? Where everything you see is either right or wrong? Take off your correcting lenses. stopcoping.com/2025/08/13/c...
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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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Craig Dial @stopcoping.com · 12/08/2025
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. stopcoping.com/2025/08/12/t...
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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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Craig Dial @stopcoping.com · 12/08/2025
Feel like everything goes by so fast, and remembering last week is like a blur? Stop sprinting past your life. stopcoping.com/2025/08/11/s...
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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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Craig Dial @stopcoping.com · 07/08/2025
Ever get caught in arguments that feel like the Monty Python sketch? Putting curiosity first can help you escape. stopcoping.com/2025/08/07/e...
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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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Craig Dial @stopcoping.com · 06/08/2025
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...
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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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Craig Dial @stopcoping.com · 29/07/2025
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...
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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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Craig Dial @stopcoping.com · 26/02/2025
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
A calendar for March, with the number 5 standing out
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Craig Dial @stopcoping.com · 14/02/2025
The cost of citizenship is neither free nor cheap. It is not a passive marker that our forebears paid in the past, it is a choice the majority will never fully understand or embrace, an uncomfortable place where we must push against entropy and meanness and indifference.
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Craig Dial @stopcoping.com · 14/02/2025
Is taking ownership of what you do only for your professional life? Find yourself laying blame on family members, justifying, feeling ashamed, or doing things out of obligation? What upsets could you eliminate if you own every moment, professional and personal?  Learn more responsibility.com/8bxv
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Immersion - The Responsibility Company
Immerse yourself in a Responsibility culture to counteract the coping culture you live in now. Just like learning any new practice, it is invaluable to have the structure and support of a guide and fe...
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Craig Dial @stopcoping.com · 27/01/2025
WANT TO, NOT HAVE TO “I just have to figure out a way to get this done” You’ve probably “done what you _have_ to” for years. Your biggest wins come when you’re 100% committed. Turn “have to” into “want to” more and more often. Check out responsibility.com/zmgg But only because you want to.
Leather reins tied around a post, showing temporary loss of freedom.
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Craig Dial @stopcoping.com · 24/01/2025
CHANGE IS HARD If you never go to the gym, it's hard to go the first time. Taking ownership of your life is hard. Having someone invested in your change makes it 70% more likely you’ll succeed. Responsibility Immersion could be support you need to take change your life. responsibility.com/pqo7
Orange neon sign that spells out the word "Change"
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Craig Dial @stopcoping.com · 23/01/2025
RSG right on the nose with the importance of knowing what your team’s “ick” means, and how it guides your choices
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Johnathan Nightingale @johnathan.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
We wrote about, you know, the ~~~everything~~~. And what you should be doing if you’re in a management position right now. (Which is, to be fair, what @shappy.bsky.social and I always write about. But nevertheless!)
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Apropos of everything - Raw Signal Group
If we’re honest about it, Mark Zuckerberg has been icky for a long time.
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Craig Dial @stopcoping.com · 22/01/2025
DITCH THE PROGRAM Ever have a boss who yelled at you? Now you don’t want to make your boss yell. You end up stuck with an unconscious program that blocks you from what you really want. How do you ditch the program? Awareness gives you a different choice. Learn more at responsibility.com/4zjp
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Immersion - The Responsibility Company
Immerse yourself in a Responsibility culture to counteract the coping culture you live in now. Just like learning any new practice, it is invaluable to have the structure and support of a guide and fe...
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Craig Dial @stopcoping.com · 20/01/2025
Figure out what you wish you'd said much later than when you wish you'd said it? We get caught in the energy our conversation partner brings and get stuck there. Feel their energy, and yours. Ask yourself, “What energy do I want to Respond with?” Learn more responsibility.com/4zjp
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Immersion - The Responsibility Company
Immerse yourself in a Responsibility culture to counteract the coping culture you live in now. Just like learning any new practice, it is invaluable to have the structure and support of a guide and fe...
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Craig Dial @stopcoping.com · 14/01/2025
LEAD YOURSELF FIRST All leadership starts with self-leadership. Leadership happens when you: • Take ownership of something, like a project, or a problem you see. Attract others to help produce meaningful results. That’s it. Learn more about how to lead yourself first at responsibility.com/avd0
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Immersion - The Responsibility Company
Immerse yourself in a Responsibility culture to counteract the coping culture you live in now. Just like learning any new practice, it is invaluable to have the structure and support of a guide and fe...
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Craig Dial @stopcoping.com · 09/01/2025
THIS YEAR WILL BE DIFFERENT Resolutions are aboutchange, and they often fail. Why? Resolutions express "ought to do", not "want to do" - that's Obligation. Transforming “ought to” into “want to” taps into your full power change. Responsibility Immersion teaches you how. responsibility.com/54x8
A two-lane paved road flanked by green fields, leading towards distant mountains. The word "START" is painted on the road at the bottom.
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Craig Dial @stopcoping.com · 02/01/2025
Happy New Year! Are you making resolutions - commitments to change and grow? Build powerful ownership of your choices, attract more of what you want, and handle problems with ease in Responsibility Immersion. The next 20-week course begins 26 February 2025. Details at responsibility.com/kzvi
Fireworks at night over a river - three primary large bursts with orange centers and yellow/green rays, with a number of smaller golden traces arcing from ground level
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Craig Dial @stopcoping.com · 25/12/2024
Christmas is almost here, and many folks are already spending time with family for the holidays. If it feels stressed, or tense, or not so joyful, take a moment to get away, even to the bathroom. Breathe a moment, and ask yourself what you truly want at that time, and what you can do to make it so.
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