Month: October 2021

📅 Thought for today: ‘Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky.’ — Kahlil Gibran #thoughtfortoday #COP26 #climatechange #parisagreement #extinction #actnow #actionnotwords COP26 – the 26th Conference of the Parties – is taking place in Glasgow. It is pretty difficult for anyone to make the case for there being nothing to be concerned…

📅 Thought for today: ‘I do not know whether it is obvious to other people which is their own or other’s right or left. In my case I had to think which was my right; no organic feeling told me.’ — Sigmund Freud #thoughtfortoday #creativity #leftbrain #rightbrain #SigmundFreud #leftrightconfusion #sensing #psychotherapy #neuroscience Often in my…

📅 Thought for today: ‘Social acceptance, “being liked,” has so much power because it holds the feelings of loneliness at bay.’ — Rollo May #thoughtfortoday #socialanxiety #acceptance #empathy #compassion #loneliness #psychotherapy Rollo May was an inspirational psychologist, and his name is often found alongside other major figures such as Abraham Maslow, Carl Rogers and Irvin…

📅 Thought for today: ‘Woodland in full colour is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.’ — Hal Borland #thoughtfortoday #autumn #colour #color #trees #seasons #change #fire It is warm here today, at least for the tail end…

📅 Thought for today:   ‘Wise to resolve, and patient to perform.’   — Homer   #thoughtfortoday #Homer #wise #resolve #patient #patience #perform #coaching   It has already been a day to be patient.   I freely admit that patience was not my strong suit. It might be a virtue but I didn’t possess it.…

📅 Thought for today: ‘The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveller returns.’ — William Shakespeare #thoughtfortoday #Hamlet #death #undiscovered #noreturn #mortality #passing #psychotherapy Two people I know, not exactly friends, but more than an acquaintance, have died in recent days. Both unexpected and sudden. Mortality is a topic I am familiar with in my…

📅 Thought for today: ‘The hustler knew that all that people ever wanted in the world was what they could not have, and what they had already lost.’ — Stuart Stromin #thoughtfortoday #hustle #scam #scammer #getrichquick #gullible #desire #greed Another one of those adverts pops into my feed on a social media platform. You’ll have…

📅 Thought for today: ‘I’m more encouraged by the saplings: new music groups, tiny new venues, entrepreneurial musician-composers who aren’t waiting to be discovered but are instead building their own Establishment.’ — David Edelstein #thoughtfortoday #music #livemusic #gigs #eivor #musicians #UnionChapel Live music has been a key component of a fulfilling life for me for…

📅 Thought for today: ‘Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good. Lower the bar. Actually spending ten minutes clearing off one shelf is better than fantasizing about spending a weekend cleaning out the basement.’ — Gretchen Rubin #thoughtfortoday #weekend #perfection #completion #completer #perfecter #relax #recharge #happyweekend As I was writing my morning…