Category: Thought for Today

📅 Thought for today: ‘Having a bad boss isn’t your fault. Staying with one is.’ — Nora Denzel #thoughtfortoday #bad #boss #management #customers #employees #wellbeing Three conversations this week had been interestingly connected. One was with a client, one with another coach, and one with a friend. The threads connected on one simple point –…

📅 Thought for today: ‘Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.’ — E E Cummings #thoughtfortoday #questions #answers #coaching #psychotherapy #helping #supervision A good proportion of my work involves listening carefully to what my clients say. As well as how they say it, how they express it (non-verbal communication) and what they…

📅 Thought for today: ‘Empathy makes good people better, then, because kind people don’t like suffering, and empathy makes this suffering salient. If you made a sadist more empathic, it would just lead to a happier sadist’ — Paul Bloom #thoughtfortoday #compassion #candor #candour #rational #psychologicalsafety Paul Bloom is the author of “Against Empathy: The…

📅 Thought for today: ‘When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.’ — Mahatma Gandhi #thoughtfortoday #holiday #sunrise #sunset #mindful #moments How often do we get to sit and watch the sunset? It is a slow process and a fast…

📅 Thought for today: ‘A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.’ — Steve Martin #thoughtfortoday #holiday #sunshine #mindful #relax We have been blessed with glorious sunshine every day we have been in Wales. There was a stiff breeze for about 36 hours, but that did not affect us – sunshine is sunshine. I…

📅 Thought for today: ‘The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation, but your thoughts about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking.’ — Eckhart Tolle #thoughtfortoday #holiday #castle #sunset #photography I’m on holiday and have had a lot of opportunities for daydreaming (or mind-wandering as a cognitive scientist is more likely…

📅 Thought for today: ‘I look my best when I’m totally free, on holiday, walking on the beach.’ — Rosamund Pike #thoughtfortoday #holiday #beach #sea #sunshine #gratitude Being on holiday, sharing a photo from my phone, what a joyous feeling that is. This is my first holiday for two and half years, I’m not counting…

📅 Thought for today: ‘Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.’ — William Butler Yeats #thoughtfortoday #StPatricksDay #happiness #journey #growth #mindset I have read that W B Yeats is one of Ireland’s greatest poets, and today, St. Patrick’s Day, is a…

📅 Thought for today: ‘We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.’ — Walt Disney #thoughtfortoday #curiosity #newdoors #newpaths #hidden #exploring #confluence #blurredlines Inspired by one of my teachers, I have developed a simple chart I use with my clients. This…

📅 Thought for today: ‘You can observe a lot by just watching.’ — Yogi Berra #thoughtfortoday #watching #observing #slowdown #bepresent #quotes #inspiration #noticing I work up this morning and knew I had to find a Yogi Berra quote. I don’t know why but I listen to my instincts. My thoughts were on a recent client…