Category: Thought for Today

📅 Thought for today:   ‘I knew I’d made it when I was sitting on the bus into Rochdale and there was an old man listening to one of my songs. It was fantastic.’   — Lisa Stansfield   #thoughtfortoday #bus #change #noticing #getup #gethelp #wrongdirection #Rochdale   Any excuse for a Lisa Stansfield quote.…

📅 Thought for today:   ‘Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.’   — Diana, Princess of Wales   #thoughtfortoday #kindness #giving #gift #expectation #reward   Have you ever done a kindness and it has gone…

📅 Thought for today: ‘I didn’t want to have to deal with having any moniker or separation between the self that I see and know myself as.’ — Mos Def #thoughtfortoday #selfawareness #emotionalintelligence #growth #change #discomfort #JohariWindow It has been a week of exploring self-awareness. Lots of Johari Window conversations and exercises. I am at…

📅 Thought for today:   ‘If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists – to protect them and to promote their common welfare – all else is lost.’   — Barack Obama   #thoughtfortoday #trust #Government #protect #welfare #inwhosinterests #truth   I cannot remember a time when I…

📅 Thought for today:   ‘Fiction gives us empathy: it puts us inside the minds of other people, gives us the gifts of seeing the world through their eyes. Fiction is a lie that tells us true things, over and over.’   — Neil Gaiman   #thoughtfortoday #fiction #empathy #lies #truths #whitelies   I remember…

📅 Thought for today:   ‘Slow down and everything you are chasing will come around and catch you.’   — John de Paola   #thoughtfortoday #slowdown #catch #wait #patience   These words ring in my ears, “slow down”.   When I was training as a therapist, they were the words of my tutor, Gill.  …

📅 Thought for today: ‘We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.’ — Ernest Hemingway #thoughtfortoday #apprentice #craft #master #learning #educating Easter Sunday morning, memories of childhood – church and chocolate. This quote leapt out at me this morning, some mornings I look for something specific, and other mornings,…

📅 Thought for today:   ‘Every reader re-creates a novel – in their own imagination, anyway. It’s only entirely the writer’s when nobody else has read it.’   — Susan Hill   #thoughtfortoday #books #library #reading #writing #holiday #timeoff   It is a bank holiday weekend here in England, four days off work.   I…

📅 Thought for today: ‘To know yourself, you must sacrifice the illusion that you already do.’ — Vironika Tugaleva #thoughtfortoday #selfawareness #regulation #emotions #management #leadership I worked with two different leadership teams this week on self-awareness. We covered some theories (I am a big fan of Dr Tasha Eurich) and tried out some exercises in…

📅 Thought for today: ‘Don’t just count your years, make your years count.’ — George Meredith #thoughtfortoday #security #safety #travel #borders #vetting Yesterday, April 13th, was exactly two years since I started post Thought for Today every day. I’ve not missed a day, except that on Christmas Day 2021 I posted one line. The thoughts…