Coaching Quote of the Day 18th April 2015
“Know yourself to improve yourself.”
(Auguste Comte)
“Know yourself to improve yourself.”
(Auguste Comte)
“I don’t have any bad habits. They might be bad habits for other people, but they’re all right for me.”
(Eubie Blake)
“Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.”
(James Stephens)
“Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another.”
(Walter Savage Landor)
“As I walk’d by myself, I talk’d to myself, And myself replied to me; And the questions myself then put to myself, With their answers I give to thee.”
(Bernard Barton)
In this weeks guest post Carrie Greene addresses an issue that often gets in the way of developing your coaching business.
I received an email from a client…
“I am feeling crazy stuck in a comparison cycle today – and I have so much to do. Just wanted to share my mind-tape today in case you have any sage wisdom.”
When you play the comparison game it seems that you always fall on the short end of the stick.
Everyone else’s business is better. Everyone has more clients. Everyone is making more money. Everyone else is doing more than you. Everyone else can do it.
Now wait a minute. Is that really true?
If you are going to play the comparison game at least play full on.
When you find yourself stuck in the endless loop of “everyone is better than me” think about this:
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Carrie Greene is a speaker, author and business coach.
Carrie helps entrepreneurs get clear on what they want and understand their value in the marketplace. Carrie helps her clients create simple and straight-forward plans to get where they want with a smile on their faces while they increase their profits.
Carrie spent fifteen years on Wall Street in marketing and product development for major brokerage firms and The New York Stock Exchange. She is the author of “Chaos to Cash: An Entrepreneur’s Guide to Eliminating Chaos, Overwhelm and Procrastination So you Can Create Ultimate Profit!” and the forthcoming book “The Value Formula: 5 Steps to Knowing What You Are Worth and Getting It”
Connect with Carrie at www.CarrieGreeneCoaching.com, www.Facebook.com/CarrieGreeneCoaching or on Twitter @CarrieCoaching
“We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.”
(W. Somerset Maugham)
“I’m a great believer in fate. I think things happen in spite of, and despite, yourself.”
(Randolph Scott)