(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perplexing, unwilling to change, hidden, self-perpetuating, in error, filled with stuff of questionable value, and out-of-date to your current situation.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…

(Quotes are capsules of information, reinforcement or enlightenment.)   “Every moment of fear erodes living in the moment.” Steve Straus   Coaching Point: What does ‘living in the moment’ mean to you? Joy, passion, beauty, and love are only experienced in the present moment, in the Now. Now is the only real time…

(Quotes are capsules of information, reinforcement or enlightenment.)   “To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.” Voltaire   Coaching Point: When I first read this years ago I thought, “Oh, come now. That seems a bit over the top.” That may be because I was only…

(Quotes are capsules of information, reinforcement or enlightenment.)   “Intuition is the supra-logic that cuts out all the routine processes of thought and leaps straight from the problem to the answer.” Robert Graves “The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors…

(Quotes are capsules of information, reinforcement or enlightenment.)   “(You) never really know. Never really know. Make your plan so carefully, but it burns out of control. (You) never really see. Though you never really see, something hiding in the shadows brings you screaming to your knees.” Richie Sambora…