Category: Thought for Today

Thought for today: ‘You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.’ — Maya Angelou #thoughtfortoday #creativity #innovation #creating #innovating #coach #coaching #entrepreneurship #psychotherapy Have you ever run out of creativity? I have heard people say, “I’ve run out of ideas”, but they don’t really mean that. Just that they are…

Thought for today: ‘Reflection is the ability to examine, to observe, to look at, to review, to evaluate, to interrogate, to assess, to question and to own our own thinking.’ — Michael Carroll #thoughtfortoday #reflection #learning #ReflectivePractice #thinking #coach #coaching #entrepreneurship #psychotherapy It is a requirement of professional psychotherapy and counselling practice that I have…

Thought for today: ‘The more you know, the more you realize you know nothing.’ — Socrates #thoughtfortoday #knowledge #learning #infinity #knownothing #coach #coaching #entrepreneurship #psychotherapy #Socrates I have been on a learning journey for the last 6 years. So have you for that matter. I have been on at least one formal, accredited training course…

Thought for today: ‘Michael O’Sullivan was my great friend. But I don’t ever remember telling him that. The words that are spoken at a funeral are spoken too late for the man who is dead.’ — Jackie O’Shea, Waking Ned #thoughtfortoday #friend #friendship #tellthem #nevertoolate #actionnow #coach #coaching #entrepreneurship #psychotherapy It is not often I…

Thought for today:   ‘I always wondered why somebody didn’t do something about that and then I realized I am somebody.’   — Lily Tomlin   #thoughtfortoday #activism #cause #somebody #campaign #action #coach #coaching #entrepreneurship #psychotherapy   When do you reach the “action threshold”?   That point when something bothers you sufficiently that you actually…

Thought for today: ‘There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.’ — Thomas Aquinas #thoughtfortoday #nothing #prized #friendship #friends #casual #aquaintance #coach #coaching #entrepreneurship #psychotherapy I read an article yesterday which suggested that what we miss most under lockdown is not our true friends and family. It is the casual…

Thought for today: ‘You get a strange feeling when you’re about to leave a place, I told him, like you’ll not only miss the people you love but you’ll miss the person you are now at this time and this place, because you’ll never be this way ever again.’ — Azar Nafisi #thoughtfortoday #leaving #parting…

Thought for today: ‘I am free of most encumbrances, so I am free of regret, the most debilitating of indulgences. If you must be regretful, regret what you didn’t do, not what you did. A man (sic) lets too many smiling opportunities pass him by.’ — A B Guthrie #thoughtfortoday #opportunity #noregrets #nowsthetime #positiveoutlook #coach…

Thought for today: ‘Tomorrow will be a good day. Tomorrow you will maybe find everything will be much better than today, even if today was all right. My today was all right and my tomorrow will certainly be better. That’s the way I’ve always looked at life.’ — Captain Sir Tom Moore, April 2020 #thoughtfortoday…

Thought for today: ‘If an apology is followed by an excuse or a reason, it means they are going to commit the same mistake again that they just apologised for.’ — Amit Kalantri #thoughtfortoday #apology #apologise #apologize #excuse #reason #coach #coaching #entrepreneurship #psychotherapy Fresh from a conversation with a client about how to apologise, this…