Month: April 2022

📅 Thought for today:   ‘I think on some level, you do your best things when you’re a little off-balance, a little scared. You’ve got to work from mystery, from wonder, from not knowing.’   — Willem Dafoe   #thoughtfortoday #offbalance #tipping #scared #fear #insight #creativity   Here is a quote I wish I had…

📅 Thought for today: ‘No one has ever become poor by giving.’ — Anne Frank #thoughtfortoday #gift #giving #poor #gifts #gifted #bookcrossing Today I am giving away twenty books. For the most part, they are books I picked up along my training path. These days it is hard to sell used books unless they are…

📅 Thought for today: ‘I’d rather have friends who care than friends who agree with me.’ — Arlo Guthrie #thoughtfortoday #friends #friendship #training #arloguthrie #agree #disagree I am sure there will be plenty of people who have no idea who Arlo Guthrie is. Or who his father was. You can have a gold star from…

📅 Thought for today: ‘Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.’ — Pablo Picasso #thoughtfortoday #ocean #waves #copper #colour #color #mystery On Monday, at our Confluence Circle in Bicester, we explored the Colour Mirrors system. I found it interesting the way a specific bottle of colour “called” to me. As Elaine was setting…

📅 Thought for today: ‘Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization.’ — Harold S Geneen #thoughtfortoday #organisation #orgchart #hierarchy #written #real #relationships A CEO client consults on organisation charts. During our discussion, I reflect…

📅 Thought for today: ‘When life gives you Monday, dip it in glitter and sparkle all day.’ — Ella Woodward #thoughtfortoday #Monday #bigweek #glitter #sparkle This is a very big week for me. I am out on a training course for three days from Wednesday. It is group supervision and I know it will be…

📅 Thought for today: ‘A person who is deliberate with their causes can be expectant with their effects… like a gardener who knows the seeds she plants and plans for a harvest accordingly.’ — Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr #thoughtfortoday #deliberate #cause #effect #lifegardener #unexpected #planahead Life and gardening, an intertwining metaphor. It is Sunday morning,…

📅 Thought for today:   ‘I knew I’d made it when I was sitting on the bus into Rochdale and there was an old man listening to one of my songs. It was fantastic.’   — Lisa Stansfield   #thoughtfortoday #bus #change #noticing #getup #gethelp #wrongdirection #Rochdale   Any excuse for a Lisa Stansfield quote.…

📅 Thought for today:   ‘Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.’   — Diana, Princess of Wales   #thoughtfortoday #kindness #giving #gift #expectation #reward   Have you ever done a kindness and it has gone…

📅 Thought for today: ‘I didn’t want to have to deal with having any moniker or separation between the self that I see and know myself as.’ — Mos Def #thoughtfortoday #selfawareness #emotionalintelligence #growth #change #discomfort #JohariWindow It has been a week of exploring self-awareness. Lots of Johari Window conversations and exercises. I am at…