Month: January 2022

`📅 Thought for today: ‘Autonomy: the urge to direct our own lives. Mastery: the desire to get better and better at something that matters. Purpose: the yearning to do what we do in the service of something larger than ourselves. These are the building blocks of an entirely new operating system for our businesses.’ —…

`📅 Thought for today: ‘Baking is about multi-tasking. If you are organized and prepared, that’s half the battle.’ — Johnny Iuzzini #thoughtfortoday #baking #cooking #multitasking #organised #therapy #nourishment Yesterday was a baking and cooking day. When I draw up my lists of nourishing and depleting activities (wiu=th a side order of mastery), baking will be…

`📅 Thought for today: ‘Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.’ — George Orwell #thoughtfortoday #politics #society #present #pst #control A short post on a busy Saturday as the Sue Gray report on parties at No. 10 Downing Street is delayed and a spat opens up between the…

📅 Thought for today: ‘Wow, what a strange and amazing thing I am. What a bizarre living being I am. Life! I am life! I am a sea of water-bound inside this membranous pouch.’ — Jill Bolte Taylor #thoughtfortoday #life #stroke #neuroanatamist #leftbrain #rightbrain One of my two tutors on my supervision training, Robin Shohet,…

📅 Thought for today:   ‘Censorship no longer works by hiding information from you; censorship works by flooding you with immense amounts of misinformation, of irrelevant information, of funny cat videos until you’re just unable to focus.’   — Yuval Noah Harari   #thoughtfortoday #censorship #socialmedia #lessons #learning #WYSINWYG   I learned an interesting lesson…

📅 Thought for today: ‘You can close your eyes to the things you don’t want to see, but you can’t close your heart to the things you don’t want to feel.’ — Johnny Depp #thoughtfortoday #feelings #feel #resilience #grit #determination #avoidance #suppression #data There is an irony in these words, which I am sure you…

📅 Thought for today: ‘If we continue to show young girls that they are being compared to other girls, we’re doing ourselves a huge disservice as a society. I surround myself with smart, beautiful, passionate, driven, ambitious women. Other women who are killing it should motivate you, thrill you, challenge you and inspire you rather…

📅 Thought for today: ‘The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.’ — Ayn Rand #thoughtfortoday #permission #forgiveness #letme #stopme #dontstopmenow This is how I am feeling this Monday morning – how about you? Are you ready to make the week your own? I have been head-down,…

📅 Thought for today: ‘It was my most personal story. I thought that would make it harder for people to bring themselves to, but instead, people saw themselves in it, or at least, a certain type of person did.’ — Neil Gaiman #thoughtfortoday #NeilGaiman #theatre #oceans #memory #loss #holdingon This is Neil Gaiman talking about…

📅 Thought for today: ‘Many people are alive but don’t touch the miracle of being alive.’ — Thích Nhất Hạnh #thoughtfortoday #mindfulness #meditation #plumvillage #ThichNhatHanh #alive #miracle When I was being trained as a Mindfulness teacher, the primary focus was on the work of Mark Williams. This is no surprise, I was being taught at…