(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…

(Quotes are capsules of information, reinforcement or enlightenment.)   “People with adequate self-esteem have no need to hate others.” David Hawkins   Coaching Point: What better is there to say about self-esteem? Or about hate?   Copyright 2015 Steve Straus. All rights reserved…

(Quotes are capsules of information, reinforcement or enlightenment.)   “There’s a direct correlation between practicing kindness and the development of intuition.” Belleruth Naparstek   Coaching Point: Kindness. Toward others. Toward yourself. It’s pretty common to have been told to practice kindness. That advice usually sounds like a ‘should,’ as in, “To be a good person…

(Quotes are capsules of information, reinforcement or enlightenment.)   “Do yah feel lucky, punk? Well, do yah?” D. H. Callahan   Coaching Point: Skipping over the “punk” part (and ignoring Dirty Harry’s sneer) do you feel lucky? Well, do you?   Copyright 2015 Steve Straus. All rights reserved…

(Quotes are capsules of information, reinforcement or enlightenment.)   “The unconscious mind is not polite.” David Hawkins   Coaching Point: It’s not. The unconscious mind is rigid, demanding, unchallengeable, strident, perplexing, unwilling to change, hidden, self-perpetuating, in error, filled with stuff of questionable value, and out-of-date to your current situation. It may be scary, guilt-ridden…

(Quotes are capsules of information, reinforcement or enlightenment.)   “Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.” Cicero   Coaching Point: “ the parent of all others” sounds like pretty high leverage to me. Especially when you consider how little effort it takes to consciously choose to experience gratitude…

(Quotes are capsules of information, reinforcement or enlightenment.) “It is only by drawing often, drawing everything, drawing incessantly, that one fine day you discover to your surprise that you have rendered something in its true character.” Camille Pissarro   Coaching Point: This is of course advice from an artist to other artists, but it extends…