Coaching Quote of the Day 6th October 2011
“There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, ‘It all depends on me.’ “ (Andre Gide)
Still feel like there is so much more to learn about coaching?
Prior to university I remember taking part in a local charity fundraising team quiz. A question on history came up and I recall saying to one of the other older team members – “you’ve got a degree in history, what’s the answer?” Looking back I’m pretty certain that my belief system was that to get … Read more
Coaching Quote of the Day 5th October 2011
“The secrets of being happy is not doing what one likes, but liking what one does.” (J M Barrie)
Coaching Quote of the Day 4th October 2011
“The great tragedy of science – the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.” (Thomas Huxley, biologist)
Great Expectations
“Oft Expectation fails, and most oft where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest; and despair most sits,” (All’s well that ends well Act II scene i, William Shakespeare) Our expectations can affect how we experience a situation and our interpretation of it’s outcome. This sprang to mind last week when … Read more
Coaching Quote of the Day 3rd October 2011
“Socretes said that the unexamined life is not worth living. But the over-examined life makes you wish you were dead. Given the alternative, I’d rather be living.” (Saul Bellow)
Coaching Quote of the Day 2nd October 2011
“Other people’s opinion of you does not have to become your reality.” (Les Brown)
Coaching Quote of the Day 1st October 2011
“No idea is so outlandish that it should be not be considered with a searching but at the same time steady eye.” (Winston Churchill)