Category: Thought for Today

Thought for today: ‘Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.’ — Dorothy Parker #thoughtfortoday #friends #friendship #meeting #hugging #psychotherapy #coaching #entrepreneur My thoughts have turned to seeing friends again. There are many friends I have not seen in person since early 2020, and more still I haven’t seen since 2019. How…

Thought for today: ‘Sometimes doing nothing makes way for everything.’ — Hiral Nagda #thoughtfortoday #nothing #something #psychotherapy #coaching #entrepreneur It is time for me to take a break. I try and take a few days off every month. Now I have a longer break from client work and training. In fact two weeks (almost –…

Thought for today: ‘Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.’ — James Baldwin #thoughtfortoday #faced #change #bebrave #psychotherapy #coaching #entrepreneur Coaching and counselling both involve clients who want to change in some way. I often hear coaches saying “counsellors fix things, coaches help people achieve…

Thought for today: ‘I think it’s very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person.’ — Olivia Wilde #thoughtfortoday #healthy #alone #selfevaluation #psychotherapy #coaching #entrepreneur We have had a lockdown on and off for a year in the UK. Most of us have…

Thought for today: ‘Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.’ — Samuel Smiles #thoughtfortoday #ahope #sun #shadow #burden #psychotherapy #coaching #entrepreneur I have mentioned the power of hope in a previous post. To achieve a sense of hope when things have seemed hopeless…

Thought for today: ‘No amount of anxiety can change the future. No amount of regret can change the past.’ — Karen Salmansohn #thoughtfortoday #anxiety #future #regret #past #psychotherapy #coaching #entrepreneur It is remarkable how often we have regrets for things that we have done. Or how much we worry about things that might (or might…

Thought for today: ‘I will not be a common man because it is my right to be an uncommon man. I will stir the smooth sands of monotony.’ — Peter O’Toole #thoughtfortoday #common #uncommon #monotony #ambition #psychotherapy #coaching #entrepreneur “Stirring the smooth sands of monotony…” has a very lyrical feel to it. In fact, this…

Thought for today: ‘When you go to change a lightbulb, it offers no resistance. This is not the case with people or the world.’ — Marty Rubin #thoughtfortoday #friends #family #relationships #change #psychotherapy #coaching #entrepreneur Several times this week I’ve had conversations about relationships. The kind where people have fallen out with friends, colleagues or…

Thought for today: ‘Nothing would be done at all if a man waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault with it.’ — Cardinal Newman #thoughtfortoday #perfect #perfectionism #findingfault #psychotherapy #coaching #entrepreneur There is rarely a critic so harsh as the voice inside our heads. I will ask clients,…

Thought for today: ‘For a seed to achieve its greatest expression, it must come completely undone. The shell cracks, its insides come out and everything changes. To someone who doesn’t understand growth, it would look like complete destruction.’ — Cynthia Occelli #thoughtfortoday #growth #destruction #transformation #learning #psychotherapy #coaching #mentoring #entrepreneur Today I am teaching. Or…