(Quotes are capsules of information, reinforcement or enlightenment.)   “Meditation – don’t give it much thought.” Steve Straus   Coaching Point: Of course, meditation is not about thinking. Meditation and thinking are two very different activities. In fact, meditation is not an activity! It’s an intentional state of being. Meditation transcends thinking. For some –…

(Quotes are capsules of information, reinforcement or enlightenment.)   “The ultimate freedom is the right to choose your attitude toward life.” Victor Frankl   Coaching Point: What are you choosing? Seriously, what are you choosing to think about? I get caught up in ‘stuff’ from time to time and find myself thinking about things which…

(Quotes are capsules of information, reinforcement or enlightenment.)   “What you have in the end is what you did on the journey.” Wayne “Butch” Gilliam – of The West Texas Investors Club   Coaching Point: Well that sure takes the pressure off. Or does it?   Copyright 2016 Steve Straus. All rights reserved…

(Quotes are capsules of information, reinforcement or enlightenment.)   “All things are difficult before they are easy.” Thomas Fuller   Coaching Point: It’s called the process of life. Start something, it’s difficult, then it becomes easy. The choice we have is whether we focus on the difficult part or on knowing it will become easy…

(Quotes are capsules of information, reinforcement or enlightenment.)   “All permanent change is internal.” Steve Straus   Coaching Point: When you want to affect a change in your life it’s useful to have some supporting processes and systems in place to assist you in the change. Such as goals, reminders, scales, timers, meetings, etc. These…

(Quotes are capsules of information, reinforcement or enlightenment.)   “Constructive Doubt is to doubt the values valued by unhappy people.” Vernon Howard   Coaching Point: All of us demonstrate our values, consciously or not. Happy people value certain things which tend to be different from what unhappy people value. While we don’t normally think of…

(Quotes are capsules of information, reinforcement or enlightenment.)   “Being still, I learned to listen. Listening, I learned to see. Seeing, I became an invitation and people completed their own sentences. Listening to their narratives through the feedback loop of my attention, they saw possibilities emerge as if we were at the terminator on the…

(Quotes are capsules of information, reinforcement or enlightenment.)   “It is actually more exciting because one learns to live on the crest of the current moment, instead of on the back of the wave (which is the past) or on the front of the wave (which is the future). There is…

(Quotes are capsules of information, reinforcement or enlightenment.)   “Humility does not mean thinking less of yourself than of other people, nor does it mean having a low opinion of your own gifts. It means freedom from thinking about yourself at all.” William Temple   Coaching Point: I always had discomfort with humility believing it…

(Quotes are capsules of information, reinforcement or enlightenment.)   “Up to a point a man’s life is shaped by environment, heredity, and movements and changes in the world about him; then there comes a time when it lies within his grasp to shape the clay of his life into the sort of thing he wishes…