Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you. – Maori proverb
Do you, typically, move away from what you don’t want, or towards what you do?
The latter is always preferable.
I know there are times when moving away is necessary.
Just make sure as you’re backing away you turn around and head towards what you want.
As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds. – Buddha Your experience of life, and your results, come from your thoughts. For the great majority of us, our thoughts are sometimes scattered, occasionally chaotic and insistent, and often rapid-fire. How can…
“Dream as if you’ll live forever.* Live as if you’ll die today.**” – James Dean Speaks for itself… (Keeping it short and sweet today.) * Sounds like something Kahlil Gibran might say. ** Sounds like something Buddha might say.
“Coaching is hot.” “Coaching is in.” “Coaching is how smart people achieve goals faster.” “Coaching is how people find meaning and purpose in their lives.” “Coaching is how people make successful career transitions.” “Coaching is how people at the top-of-their-game get better.” These are just some of the things I’ve read or heard about coaching,…
As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. – Andrew Carnegie Recently I wrote: Talk is cheap, but action is priceless. What we say (/think) matters to what we do, but what do is what really matters. What are you doing, that doesn’t serve you?…
Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun. – Pablo Picasso Some people have a vague sense that we can play a role in how things seem. But this sense is – generally – woefully incomplete, and below (our) consciousness. We do play a role in how things…
Some of us learn from other people’s mistakes and the rest of us have to be other people. – Zig Ziglar . . . is to learn from the mistakes of other people. And, to learn from the successes of other people. Every day we have the choice to be learners, and doers. Or we…