Category: Thought for Today

Thought for today: ‘The way you tell your story to yourself matters.’ — Amy Cuddy #thoughtfortoday #selfconfidence #selfesteem #selftalk #tellyourstory #coach #coaching #entrepreneurship #psychotherapy I am surprised that I have not used an Amy Cuddy quote before now. You may know her for her TED talk on the power pose, the short-cut to self-esteem and…

Thought for today: ‘Reducing and reusing take nothing more than a rethink on the way we shop, and using our imagination with the things that we might once have considered junk.’ — Sheherazade Goldsmith #thoughtfortoday #reuse #recycle #repair #refuse #quandary #coach #coaching #entrepreneurship #psychotherapy A product manufactured in China arrives in a plastic bag. The…

Thought for today: ‘Maybe love isn’t what we’ve been told. maybe it’s not all romance and not all attraction. Maybe love is a friend. Someone who understands you. Someone who wants what’s best for you and prays for you when even you’re at your worst.’ — R M Drake #thoughtfortoday #meaningoflove #love #friendship #coach #coaching…

Thought for today:   ‘There isn’t a way things should be. There’s just what happens, and what we do.’   — Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky   #thoughtfortoday #epictetus #coping #events #dealingwithit #coach #coaching #entrepreneurship #psychotherapy #terrypratchett   I felt in need of a little levity today.   Like many people I have…

Thought for today: ‘We don’t have time to sit on our hands as our planet burns. For young people, climate change is bigger than election or re-election. It’s life or death.’ — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez #thoughtfortoday #death #grief #mortality #covid19 #UKdeaths #coach #coaching #entrepreneurship #psychotherapy Yesterday President Biden announced a seas change in the American approach…

Thought for today: ‘It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.’ — John Steinbeck #thoughtfortoday #death #grief #mortality #covid19 #UKdeaths #coach #coaching #entrepreneurship #psychotherapy My thoughts today are dominated by the UK death toll from Covid-19. As we pass a grim milestone, I think…

Thought for today: ‘Aleister Crowley once stated that the most important grimoire, or book of magical instruction, that anyone could ever conceivably own would be an etymological dictionary, and in my opinion he was exactly right.’ — Alan Moore #thoughtfortoday #words #fascinating #geek #nerd #etymology #language #coach #coaching #entrepreneurship #psychotherapy I started my day listening…

Thought for today: ‘Now I know what happens at a gig, I will be ready for it, next time–I will come in just a T-shirt and shorts and books, and fight my way to the front, like a quietly determined soldier, and then let the band take my head off. I want to walk into…

Thought for today: ‘Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood.’ — Andy Goldsworthy #thoughtfortoday #snow #resilience #childhood #memories #snowing #happiness ##ikigai #mindset #positivepsychology #coaching #teaching #training #psychotherapy #silence #AndyGoldsworthy Snow is falling and my childhood memories are evoked. Like the winter of 1970 up in the Pennines with my Dad, when he dropped…

Thought for today:   ‘It’s much easier to condemn people who do the wrong thing than it is to do the right thing yourself.’   — Kanae Minato   #thoughtfortoday #passion #resilience #forgiveness #codemn #rightthing #lookforward #motivation #ikigai #mindset #positivepsychology #coaching #teaching #training #psychotherapy #judgement   Oh, how true this is.   Modern-day media passes…