Category: Thought for Today

📅 Thought for today: ‘Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.’ — Tom Lehrer #thoughtfortoday #life #piano #lifeswhatyoumakeit #play #tune #pianist My mother was a Tom Lehrer fan. His personal style of satirical anecdote and song was something I heard growing up. It was funny…

📅 Thought for today: ‘Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation.’ — Richard M. Nixon #thoughtfortoday #negotiation #agreement #differences #relationship #business #tricky Another day, another workshop. Today is the second session in a series of four working on negotiation skills. These are skills we can all use in life…

📅 Thought for today:   ‘The land of burnout is not a place I ever want to go back to.’   — Arianna Huffington   #thoughtfortoday #burnout #stress #selfcare #motivation #depression   I’m running a workshop today on Burnout & Self-Care.   Remote working seems to have increased the rate of burnout amongst my clients,…

📅 Thought for today: ‘To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.’ — Quentin Tarantino #thoughtfortoday #snow #winter #wind #frost #slippy #sliding I was writing the book again this weekend, after a break of a few weeks. Part of the work I did included writing a chapter in…

📅 Thought for today:   ‘And finally Winter, with its bitin’, whinin’ wind, and all the land will be mantled with snow.’   — Roy Bean   #thoughtfortoday #snow #winter #wind #frost #slippy #sliding   A light covering of snow overnight has transformed the landscape – it is somehow cleaner and fresher.   Not heavy…

📅 Thought for today: ‘It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.’ — Eckhart Tolle #thoughtfortoday #gratitude #spiritual #spirituality #present #supervision #connected I was surprised to discover that this is the first time in nearly 600 days of quotes that I have picked one by Eckhart Tolle.…

📅 Thought for today: ‘I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.’ — Dan Quayle #thoughtfortoday #california #moffattfield #sunnyvale #californiadreaming #orion No letters please, I know what’s wrong with this quote! I first visited California in November 1985, staying for two nights in a hotel in Sunnyvale. I fell in love with the air,…

📅 Thought for today: ‘Sometimes it’s the smallest decisions that can change your life forever.’ — Keri Russell #thoughtfortoday #decisions #change #changes #life #acceptance #therapy As my Level 5 tutor (Melanie Phelps) often said, “Nothing changes if nothing changes”. Sometimes we want to change and do nothing. Then we feel stuck. Often the change that…

📅 Thought for today:   ‘I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.’   — Henry David Thoreau   #thoughtfortoday #ThanksGiving #grateful #gratitude #perpetual #thankyou   When I was 13 I nearly drowned whilst on a scouting holiday in Wales.   Fascinated by the sea on the rocks near Criccieth,…

📅 Thought for today: ‘I saw old Autumn in the misty morn stand shadowless like silence, listening to silence.’ — Thomas Hood #thoughtfortoday #autumn #misty #frosty #morning #silence #listening It was one of those mornings today. Misty, almost foggy in places, and Autumn hung in the air. The dense, misty air suppressed sound and the…