Month: July 2021

📅 Thought for today: ‘It matters, it always matters, to name rubbish as rubbish … to do otherwise is to legitimize it.’ — Salman Rushdie #thoughtfortoday #rubbish #recycling #paper #notpaper #Biffa #obscene #takeoutthetrash My Saturday should not be spoiled by rubbish. And it won’t be spoiled, but it will start with a rant. Biffa Waste…

📅 Thought for today: ‘There is no such thing as a pure “extrovert” or a pure “introvert”. Such a man would be in the lunatic asylum.’ — Carl Jung #thoughtfortoday #introvert #extrovert #CarlJung #coaching #therapy #teaching I survived! Yesterday I travelled in to London for the first time in over sixteen months. The train, in…

📅 Thought for today: ‘The only journey is the one within.’ — Rainer Maria Rilke #thoughtfortoday #travel #journey #train #London #speaking #teaching #qualms The day arrives. There was a time when I travelled into London two or three times a week to meet clients. I last did this on March 6th 2020, and I last…

📅 Thought for today:   ‘Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.’   — George F Will   #thoughtfortoday #excellence #mentalhealth #selfpreservation #olympics202 #tokyo #coaching   I was looking for a sports quote today because I’ve been watching some of the Olympics 2020.   As always happens (to me at least), I want…

📅 Thought for today: ‘I think you need to love giving compliments as much as you love receiving them.’ — Yami Gautam #thoughtfortoday #giving #receiving #compliments #sharing #affirmation #love #life #coaching What is the nicest compliment you ever received? What made it memorable? What is the nicest compliment you ever gave? Whilst I am posing…

📅 Thought for today: ‘Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.’ — George Bernard Shaw #thoughtfortoday #progress #change #opinions #growth #curiosity #therapist #coach It has been a week of changing my mind about things – big and small. From opinions about people to ways to do things,…

📅 Thought for today: ‘Take half, leave half.’ — Hatidze Muratova #thoughtfortoday #honeyland #takehalf #leavehalf #life #ecology #beekeeping #respectnature #coach Alone with my thoughts for a while on a Sunday morning, I realise I am still thinking about a film I watched two weeks ago. The film is “Honeyland” directed by Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir…

📅 Thought for today: ‘It’s a relief to hear the rain. It’s the sound of billions of drops, all equal, all equally committed to falling, like a sudden outbreak of democracy. Water, when it hits the ground, instantly becomes a puddle or rivulet or flood.’ — Alice Oswald #thoughtfortoday #relief #rain #summer #rollercoaster #destiny #normal…

📅 Thought for today: ‘It really boils down to this: that all life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied into a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.’ — Dr Martin Luther King Jr #thoughtfortoday #MLK #interconnected #interrelated #mutuality #destiny #teacher #therapist #author #coach…

📅 Thought for today: ‘And I rose In rainy autumn And walked abroad in a shower of all my days…’ — Dylan Thomas #thoughtfortoday #DylanThomas #poetry #birthday #teacher #therapist #author #coach A short post today. I am celebrating a birthday, and when the work is done will be enjoying time with my family and friends.…