Category: Thought for Today

📅 Thought for today: ‘Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.’ — Oscar Wilde #thoughtfortoday #poor #thrifty #starving #corporateprofit #greed #insulting #betterfuture Do you expect your standard of living to…

📅 Thought for today:   ‘A coach is someone who tells you what you don’t want to hear, who has you see what you don’t want to see, so you can be who you have always known you could be.’   — Tom Landry   #thoughtfortoday #coaching #coach #potential #actualisation   Tom Landry is a…

📅 Thought for today:   ‘I love researching, I love interviewing.’   — Quiara Alegria Hudes   #thoughtfortoday #opportunity #goforit #pirates #luck   In amongst the client sessions, running training sessions for three companies, and doing the admin-y things you do when you run your own business, I have been researching and interviewing entrepreneurs.  …

📅 Thought for today: ‘It’s not everyday you get to do a pirate movie, you might as well go for it.’ — Keira Knightley #thoughtfortoday #opportunity #goforit #pirates #luck How do you know an opportunity when you see one? If I close my mind to opportunity, then I can be certain I won’t find one.…

📅 Thought for today: ‘Why can’t I be different and unusual… like everyone else?’ — Viv(ian) Stanshall #thoughtfortoday #different #unusual #normal #conforming #shame I am often asked by clients, “Am I normal?” It is most often asked in the context of what they are experiencing at that time – they are asking if other people…

📅 Thought for today: ‘Be realistic with your expectations. I’d really like to cuddle a unicorn, but it ain’t going to happen.’ — India Knight #thoughtfortoday #expectation #realistic #unicorn #goals #coaching The client sets a goal for himself. It is not particularly realistic – it is what he wants though. The timeframe makes the goal…

📅 Thought for today:   ‘Celebrate endings – for they precede new beginnings.’   — Jonathan Lockwood Huie   #thoughtfortoday #endings #client #clients #celebrate #beginnings #space   I have had several client endings in recent weeks.   This is remarkable (as in, worthy of the remark) because, in my one-on-one work with clients, I don’t…

📅 Thought for today: ‘People often judge themselves according to whether others find them acceptable or wanting.’ — Janet Tolan #thoughtfortoday #locus #evaluation #carlrogers #judgement #expectation #MotheringSunday This is not a mainstream quote, it is actually taken from a Psychotherapy textbook. Carl Rogers called this an external locus of evaluation. When we don’t trust our…

📅 Thought for today: ‘Taking time to do something slower than you normally would is a privilege that should not be ignored.’ — Harper Reed #thoughtfortoday #takingtime #slowdown #urgency #rush #haste #fear My students are often surprised, or sometimes impatient (the irony) when I suggest that they need to slow down. They are rushing to…

📅 Thought for today: ‘What must I do to be at peace with myself so that I may live presently and die gracefully?’ — Alua Arthur #thoughtfortoday #meaning #existential #crisis #peace #present #die #gracefully Existential crisis (“what is my purpose, why do I live”) is something that comes up with clients often. This is in…