Everyone Needs a Coach

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. – Theodore Roosevelt The best, and often hardest, thing to do is just to start: where you are; with what you have; now. Your choice is to do your best now or what until things are “just right” or “perfect.” They will never be…

Job security is gone. The driving force of a career must come from the individual. Remember: Jobs are owned by the company. You own your career! – Earl Nightingale Are you acting as if you own your career, or are you just renting it from your current employer? Are you doing only what’s necessary to…

I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime. – Elisabeth Kübler-Ross For so many of us, this concept is foreign. What’s more, for those folks to be confronted with this truth, great upset would likely ensue. But…

The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible. For the fainthearted, it is unknown. For the thoughtful and valiant, it is ideal. – Victor Hugo Language is the basis and currency of our thoughts and mental life. What we name things, and continue to call them, are what they become and remain….

No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you. – Althea Gibson Thanking those who have helped you is to truly accomplish something. Sure, you can have the thing or the achievement, whatever it may be, but it’s incomplete until you thank those who have helped you. We do nothing alone. Everything we create or…

Positive Thinking, by itself, isn’t much, and it’s certainly not sufficient. Positive thinking without constructive visualization and consistent action/adaptation is like pizza without sauce, and cheese, and toppings, and an oven, and someone skilled to make the pizza and bake, and slice, it — it’s just dough. Positive thinking when combined with vivid and emotionally charged…