Category: Thought for Today

📅 Thought for today:   ‘In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.’   — Theodore Roosevelt   #thoughtfortoday #decisions #desired #avoided #outcome #data #best #worst   Decisions in life, about…

📅 Thought for today: ‘A myth is, of course, not a fairy story. It is the presentation of facts belonging to one category in the idioms appropriate to another. To explode a myth is accordingly not to deny the facts but to re-allocate them.’ — Gilbert Ryle #thoughtfortoday #GilbertRyle #GhostInTheMachine #Mind #Body #holistic #philosophy It…

📅 Thought for today:   ‘Shame is the most powerful, master emotion. It’s the fear that we’re not good enough.’   — Brené Brown   #thoughtfortoday #shame #shaming #parenting #conflict #fear #emotions   I have quoted Brené Brown on shame before.   Shame came through our work as a group last week and something happened…

📅 Thought for today:   ‘I think on some level, you do your best things when you’re a little off-balance, a little scared. You’ve got to work from mystery, from wonder, from not knowing.’   — Willem Dafoe   #thoughtfortoday #offbalance #tipping #scared #fear #insight #creativity   Here is a quote I wish I had…

📅 Thought for today: ‘No one has ever become poor by giving.’ — Anne Frank #thoughtfortoday #gift #giving #poor #gifts #gifted #bookcrossing Today I am giving away twenty books. For the most part, they are books I picked up along my training path. These days it is hard to sell used books unless they are…

📅 Thought for today: ‘I’d rather have friends who care than friends who agree with me.’ — Arlo Guthrie #thoughtfortoday #friends #friendship #training #arloguthrie #agree #disagree I am sure there will be plenty of people who have no idea who Arlo Guthrie is. Or who his father was. You can have a gold star from…

📅 Thought for today: ‘Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.’ — Pablo Picasso #thoughtfortoday #ocean #waves #copper #colour #color #mystery On Monday, at our Confluence Circle in Bicester, we explored the Colour Mirrors system. I found it interesting the way a specific bottle of colour “called” to me. As Elaine was setting…

📅 Thought for today: ‘Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization.’ — Harold S Geneen #thoughtfortoday #organisation #orgchart #hierarchy #written #real #relationships A CEO client consults on organisation charts. During our discussion, I reflect…

📅 Thought for today: ‘When life gives you Monday, dip it in glitter and sparkle all day.’ — Ella Woodward #thoughtfortoday #Monday #bigweek #glitter #sparkle This is a very big week for me. I am out on a training course for three days from Wednesday. It is group supervision and I know it will be…

📅 Thought for today: ‘A person who is deliberate with their causes can be expectant with their effects… like a gardener who knows the seeds she plants and plans for a harvest accordingly.’ — Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr #thoughtfortoday #deliberate #cause #effect #lifegardener #unexpected #planahead Life and gardening, an intertwining metaphor. It is Sunday morning,…