Month: June 2022

📅 Thought for today: ‘Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.’ — Stephen King #thoughtfortoday #family #table #writing #heirloom #memory #conversation I sometimes wonder if we over-celebrate “talent” when we should be celebrating the effort that goes into “making it”. Success…

📅 Thought for today:   ‘Some of the most important conversations I’ve ever had occurred at my family’s dinner table.’   — Bob Ehrlich   #thoughtfortoday #family #table #writing #heirloom #memory #conversation   I have a morning routine that includes a walk and writing. I write twice every morning, first the Morning Pages that Julia…

📅 Thought for today:   ‘When people don’t have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.’   — Irvin D Yalom   #thoughtfortoday #Yalom #HilmotMatrix #ConfluenceCircles #curisoity #inspiration   Irvin Yalom has been the single biggest source of inspiration for me as a therapist.   His book, “Love’s Executioner” has been read…

📅 Thought for today: ‘Now I am in my eighties, and I have known the joys and sorrows of a full life. Age, however, has its privileges. One is to reminisce, and another is to reminisce selectively.’ — Rose Kennedy #thoughtfortoday #reminisce #reminiscence #memory #joy #leicester #manchester #sale I had one of those moments today…

📅 Thought for today: ‘If we live our lives looking for the excitement and exhilaration that change can bring, we will be much happier than when we are eventually forced to accept it anyways.’ — Daniel Willey #thoughtfortoday #excitement #exhilaration #change #opportunity #learning #growth Change is inevitable, and once we accept that, we can embrace…

📅 Thought for today:   ‘You can get away with a lot of s**t if it looks like it`s all you know how to do.’   — Henry Rollins   #thoughtfortoday #deceive #lie #dupe #lying #reprehensible #allyoudo   If you are British you will know immediately why this quote is in my mind today.  …

📅 Thought for today:   ‘Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit cannot be severed; for the effect already blooms in the cause, the end pre-exists in the means, the fruit in the seed.’   — Ralph Waldo Emerson   #thoughtfortoday #cause #effect #means #ends #seeds #fruit #Emerson   This is a quote…

📅 Thought for today: ‘The whole of Yorkshire has been known throughout the world for various reasons, not least because of Wuthering Heights, but it was James Herriot I think that put Yorkshire on the international map and we are part of that, which is a great honour really.’ — Christopher Timothy #thoughtfortoday #Yorkshire #North…

📅 Thought for today:   ‘Never forget that the most powerful force on earth is love.’   — Nelson Rockefeller   #thoughtfortoday #love #loving #compassion #unconditional #benevolence #concern #judgement   Nelson A Rockefeller was a politician, philanthropist, and champion of public access to the arts.   His grandfather was John D Rockefeller, the oil baron…

📅 Thought for today: ‘The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you.’ — Stephanie Perkins #thoughtfortoday #know #self #happy #happiness #lettinggo #control I often have conversations with clients about happiness. Specifically, how you can be happy when so many things are “wrong”, or other people…