Category: Thought for Today

Thought for today: ‘It is easy to buy a book; what is more difficult is to purchase the time in which to read them. Too often the mere fact of possession tempts us to think we own the contents.’ — Arthur Schopenhauer #thoughtfortoday #books #reading #possession #knowledge As I was casually browsing through my books…

Thought for today: ‘The people we get along with, trust, feel simpatico with, are the strongest links in our network.’ — Daniel Goleman #thoughtfortoday #trust #links #network #simpatico Instinct can serve us well, but have you ever really thought about who you trust and who you share interests with? Just as importantly, who you don’t…

Thought for today: ‘We cannot become what we want to be by remaining what we are.’ — Max DePree #thoughtfortoday #change #becoming #whatyouwant This quote was prompted by two client sessions yesterday, very differnt but with a common thread. As one of my therapy tutors often said, “Nothing changes if nothing changes”. There comes a…

Thought for today: ‘To get back my youth I would do anything in the world except take exercise, get up early or be respectable.’ — Oscar Wilde #thoughtfortoday #youth #exercise #respectable #getupearly It has felt like a long week, tiring. I’m not sure I want my youth back, I do need to work off some…

Thought for today: ‘Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.’ — Andrew Carnegie #thoughtfortoday #team #teamwork #results I am now more than half way through my latest accredited training –…

Thought for today: ‘You eventually just get tired of fake people with coward intentions; you struggle because your heart is pure and you don’t understand why so many people can’t be authentic.’ — Sylvester McNutt #thoughtfortoday #fake #authentic #pure Yesterday Lynn (my wife) was made redundant, whilst still furloughed, from her job. The company that…

Thought for today: ‘The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.’ — Mark Twain #thoughtfortoday #pause #effect #communicate In my presentation and storytelling workshops, teaching pauses is often the most challenging part. In regular speech a pause gives the listener’s brain the chance to catch…

Thought for today: ‘There comes a time in your life when you walk away from all the drama and people who create it. You surround yourself with people who make you laugh. Forget the bad and focus on the good. Love the people who treat you right, pray for the ones who do not. Life…

Thought for today: ‘What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.’ — Albert Pike #thoughtfortoday #legacy #immortal #selfless The music lives on long after the artist has faded away.

Thought for today: ‘The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.’ — Robert Frost #thoughtfortoday #anticipation #resilience #patience Hindsight, they say, is always 20:20. So how would you rate predication and anticipation? I am often struck by how much our anticipation of the future instinctively veers towards what can go wrong, and less often towards…