Month: February 2022

📅 Thought for today: ‘My grandmother lived to 104 years old, and part of her success was she woke up every morning to a brand new day. She said every morning is a new gift. Her favorite hobby was collecting birthdays.’ — George Takei #thoughtfortoday #brandnewday #morning #hobby #focus #sulu #gratitude #gifts After a few…

📅 Thought for today:   ‘The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same.’   — Marjane Satrapi   #thoughtfortoday #putin…

📅 Thought for today: ‘Sanctions and negotiations can be very ineffective, and indeed foolish unless the people you are talking with and negotiating with and trying to reach agreements with are people who can be trusted to keep their word.’ — Caspar Weinberger #thoughtfortoday #sanctions #ineffective #negotiation #foolish #trust #aggression #fear Today I am wondering…

📅 Thought for today: ‘With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose.’ — Wayne Dyer #thoughtfortoday #growth #experience #selfhelp #gift #choice Wayne…

📅 Thought for today: ‘You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.’ — Jeannette Rankin #thoughtfortoday #war #winning #earthquake #russia #ukraine I woke this morning to news of a Russian invasion of Ukraine. The more I read about this, the less I understand. In many ways, the less I want…

📅 Thought for today: ‘Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.’ — Rumi #thoughtfortoday #shouting #angry #manager #trainthem Have you ever worked with or for someone who resorted to shouting when they got frustrated, irritated or thwarted at work? Have you ever been that person? This description of workplace…

📅 Thought for today: ‘One life is all we have, and we live it as we believe in living it, and then it’s gone. But to surrender what you are, and live without belief – that’s more terrible than dying – more terrible than dying young’ — Maxwell Anderson (in the play Joan of Lorraine,…

📅 Thought for today: ‘Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.’ — E L Doctorow #thoughtfortoday #writer #writer #birdbybird #AnneLamott On a recent Zoominar with Daniel Pink, he introduced some special guests. One was…

📅 Thought for today:   ‘It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.’   — Albert Einstein   #thoughtfortoday #teacher #teaching #joy #learning #creativity #knowledge   As I sit down on a blustery and showery day to read my teaching manuals, ready for my next submissions for…

📅 Thought for today: ‘Assumptions are the termites of relationships.’ — Henry Winkler #thoughtfortoday #assumptions #knowledge #fillinginthegaps #judging #curiosity Assumptions are what we use to fill in the gaps in our knowledge. Not all assumptions are bad, but we don’t often recognise that they are fictional (even when right). When we assume that we know…