Month: May 2022

📅 Thought for today: ‘Money probably doesn’t make you happy, but all I ask is the chance to prove it.’ — Spike Milligan #thoughtfortoday #money #happy #proof #hope #hopeless #inflation #mindset There is so much financial pressure on families in the UK at the moment. Food prices are rising, and energy prices are rising even…

📅 Thought for today: ‘Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, harness your power to your passion. Honor your calling. Everybody has one. Trust your heart, and success will come to you.’ — Oprah Winfrey #thoughtfortoday #power #passion #calling #heart #success I have really liked this quote since I first heard…

📅 Thought for today: ‘Keep your face to the sun and you will never see the shadows.’ — Helen Keller #thoughtfortoday #sun #sunshine #sunwards #shadows #HelenKeller #activist #disability #hope When I was a boy my mother and I watched The Miracle Worker – the 1962 film about the life of Helen Keller. It had a…

📅 Thought for today:   ‘Never lose hope. Storms make people stronger and never last forever.’   — Roy T Bennett   #thoughtfortoday #hope #storms #stronger #finite #plans #change   I am weathering my own storm today, after some bad news yesterday.   The net result will be some upheaval and change over the coming…

📅 Thought for today: ‘Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.’ — Elie Wiesel #thoughtfortoday #despair #human #hope #therapy #counselling #gratitude I am grateful that in my short working life as a therapist I have been able to…

📅 Thought for today: ‘I need to celebrate life because I’m in a good spot, I work hard, and I am happy with who I am and happy with what I do for a living, and sometimes I just focus and overwhelm myself so much with the fights and getting better, that I just need…

📅 Thought for today: ‘What I say is that, if a man really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.’ — A A Milne #thoughtfortoday #potato #decent #fellow #Sunday #exhausted A short post today, to acknowledge Kevin Fitzgibbon, and Andrew Wilkin. Kevin and I have been friends for a while. We…

📅 Thought for today: ‘’Zen. . . does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.’’ — Alan W Watts #thoughtfortoday #zen #peace #peeling #potatoes #mindfulness #zoneout It has been a long and challenging week in so many ways. When I finally closed…

📅 Thought for today: ‘Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.’ — George Carlin #thoughtfortoday #working #passion #growth #entrepreneur #leader #goals There comes a point in every entrepreneurial startup when you realise you have hired someone who doesn’t actually care about the business.…

📅 Thought for today: ‘Living in the midst of a world where there was a plethora of the new I attached myself to the old.’ — Henry Miller #thoughtfortoday #wfh #workfromhome #flexible #working #dinosaur #badmanagement #loudmouth Lord Alan Sugar has described people who want to work from home and have flexible working arrangements as “lazy…