Month: December 2020

Thought for today: ‘The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good people (men) to do what they want to be (he wants) done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it. ‘ — Theodore Roosevelt #thoughtfortoday #executives #leadership #entrepreneurs #investors #stopmeddling Another one of those…

Thought for today: ‘Sometimes the hardest thing and the right thing are the same.’ — The Fray #thoughtfortoday #hardest #right #decisions #present Despite my love of music, it is not often I credit a band with a quote. As all the band members own the copyright to these lyrics, to the song All At Once,…

Thought for today: ‘We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.’ — Francois Rabelais #thoughtfortoday  #therapist #desire #forbidden #denied #temptation No, not me. I’m not thinking about forbidden things today, except in the context of clients. This came up with a client recently. The sentence that starts with, “I know…

Thought for today:  ‘Life hardly ever lives up to our anxieties.’ — Paul Monash Oh, how true. I recently ran some Mental Health in the Workplace workshops. We explored the most common Mental Health issues that can arise at work. In my experience, Stress and Anxiety are the most common, although I see the full…

Thought for today: ‘I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.’ — Ralph Nader Ralph Nader has been a consumer advocate, environmentalist and four times candidate to be US President. It was his choice to not marry, to live frugally and to dedicate himself to…

Thought for today: ‘I still get very high and very low in life. Daily. But I’ve finally accepted the fact that sensitive is just how I was made, that I don’t have to hide it and I don’t have to fix it. I’m not broken.’ — Glennon Doyle (as Glennon Melton) I think this quote…

Thought for today: ‘Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It has no mother.’ — Germaine Greer #thoughtfortoday #freud #psychoanalysis #father #mother #SigmundFreud I used to use a funny quote on Fridays, and I let that slip. Here I can celebrate the end of a long, hard week with a lighter quote. Which just happens to…

Thought for today: ‘When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.’ — Haruki Murakami #thoughtfortoday #storm #change #purpose #HarukiMurakami This week seemed like a storm to me. Because I am on a training course next week, and off over Christmas, all…

Thought for today: ‘You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.’ — R. Buckminster Fuller #thoughtfortoday #change #existingreality #obsolete #BuckminsterFuller A man I admire greatly and not as well known as he should be in my opinion. A man so influential…

Thought for today: ‘As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.’ — Bill Gates #thoughtfortoday #leaders #leadership #empower #BillGates I hesitated before using a Bill gates quote. Not because I have anything but admiration for the man. There will be someone who says, “how can you quote him,…