The Mindful Entrepreneur

Category: These are not my bags

  • 1st February 2022

    1st February 2022

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    `📅 Thought for today: ‘The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide.’ — Hannah Arendt #thoughtfortoday #liars #lying #cheats #badboss #culture #toxic I am thinking about liars and cheats today. Strangely these thoughts arise from some…

  • 14th May 2021

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    Thought for today: ‘Either a writer doesn’t want to talk about his work, or he talks about it more than you want.’ — Anatole Broyard #thoughtfortoday #writing #writer #author #talking #coach #psychology #therapy I am going from the former to the latter. I have in front of my five book projects. One is my passion…

  • 16th February 2021

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    Thought for today: ‘Mistakes are the portals of discovery.’ — James Joyce #thoughtfortoday #mistakes #discovery #management #coach #coaching #entrepreneurship #psychotherapy We make decisions every day. Managers are relied upon to make good decisions most of the time. And I made some decisions a few months ago that haven’t panned out. So it goes. Accepting that…

  • 24th October 2020

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    Thought for today: ‘I write to discover what I know.’ — Flannery O’Connor #thoughtfortoday #writer #writing #discover #know #TheseAreNotMyBags This is the seventh and final day of quotes about writing. If you’ve been reading these musings this week, you’ll know I’ve been writing all week. I’ve reached 12,500 words, and now have a habit. I…

  • 23rd October 2020

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    Thought for today: ‘Words are a lens to focus one’s mind.’ — Ayn Rand #thoughtfortoday #writer #writing #focus #words #TheseAreNotMyBags Ayn Rand was an interesting woman. Her philosophy (Objectivism) and her writing seem to provoke strong feelings one way or the other. I have no such ambitions in writing, I think I can write something…

  • 22nd October 2020

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    Thought for today: ‘If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster.’ — Isaac Asimov #thoughtfortoday #writer #writing #faster #words #TheseAreNotMyBags Isaac Asimov was one of my favourites, especially as a teenager. I’m delighted to see that the Foundation trilogy is coming to the…

  • 21st October 2020

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    Thought for today: ‘I went for years not finishing anything. Because, of course, when you finish something you can be judged.’ — Erica Jong #thoughtfortoday #writer #writing #finishing #judgement #TheseAreNotMyBags This quote is a reminder that the book I started 5 years ago, writing in a cottage in the Highlands, remains unfinished. If I had…

  • 20th October 2020

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    Thought for today: ‘Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.’ — John Steinbeck #thoughtfortoday #writer #writing #ideas #rabbits #TheseAreNotMyBags Day two of seven days of writing, yesterday went well and ended on 3,200 words. To put this in context, the word…

  • 19th October 2020

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    Thought for today:  ‘A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.’ — Thomas Mann #thoughtfortoday #writer #writing #difficulty Day one of seven days of writing, I am at my desk with allocated times for writing. And allocated times for not writing. That’s how I work, time on,…

  • 18th October 2020

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    Thought for today: ‘If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.’ — Stephen King #thoughtfortoday #read #write #simple #stephenking As I embark on seven days of writing, I realise it is also seven days of reading. I also realise that despite planning for…