S:0785 Quote: Perfect

(Quotes are capsules of information, reinforcement or enlightenment.)   “I’m a firm believer that everything really is perfect. But, damn, the disguises can be so clever at times!” Jim Moore – Consultant to local and municipal governments   Coaching Point: What if, instead of looking at some of your problems as being problems, you looked […]

S:0782 Quote: Highways and Runways

(Quotes are capsules of information, reinforcement or enlightenment.)   “A mile of highway can take you a mile. A mile of runway can take you anywhere” “Llano Larry” of the Llano, Texas airport (As quoted in Flying Magazine)   Coaching Point: This quote is obviously about more than highways and runways; more than the difference […]

S:0776 Quote: Cross-eyed

(Quotes are capsules of information, reinforcement or enlightenment.)   “If you look at the past with one eye and at the future with the other eye, you end up cross-eyed.” Mark McLemore – Former big-league baseball player   Coaching Point: McLemore is talking about the baseball cliche “Play’m one game at a time.” Professional sports […]

S:0762 Quote: Personal Development

(Quotes are capsules of information, reinforcement or enlightenment.)   “The greatest gift you can give somebody is your personal development. I used to say, ‘If you will take care of me, I will take care of you.’ Now I say, ‘I will take care of me for you, if you will take care of you […]

S:0757 Quote: Self-Image

(Quotes are capsules of information, reinforcement or enlightenment.)   “Our self-image, strongly held, essentially determines what we become.” “Self-image sets the boundaries of individual accomplishment.” “The ‘self-image’ is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self-image and you change the personality and the behavior.” “Your most important sale in life is to […]

S:0755 Quote: Elevating Life

(Quotes are capsules of information, reinforcement or enlightenment.)   “I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.” Henry David Thoreau   Coaching Point: The key to this quote is not “endeavor” it’s “conscious.” You can work hard, endeavor, on the wrong things and […]

S:0751 Quote: Checkbooks

(Quotes are capsules of information, reinforcement or enlightenment.)   “There are few problems which can’t be beat to death with a checkbook. Just don’t attract problems which are bigger than your checkbook.” Steve Straus   Coaching Point: Of course, having problems at all is a waste of your time and energy, but until you learn […]

S:0744 Quote: Journeys and destinations

(Quotes are capsules of information, reinforcement or enlightenment.)   “I’ve come to see that I’m both traveling and arriving in every moment. My life is a journey in which I’m constantly arriving at my destination, which is here and now. And I’m also traveling onward into a future that will become here and now. . […]

S:0742 Quote: What Do You Want?

(Quotes are capsules of information, reinforcement or enlightenment.)   “Some people have everything and other people don’t, but everything don’t mean a thing, if it ain’t the thing you want.” Charles Wright & The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band from the song – Express Yourself   Coaching Point: What do you REALLY want? Are you […]

S:0731 Quote: Connection

(Quotes are capsules of information, reinforcement or enlightenment.)   “When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.” John Muir   Coaching Point: Do you know you are attached to the rest of the world? Do you feel it?   Copyright 2009 Steve Straus. All […]