(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…

(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…

(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…

(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…

(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…

(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…

(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…

(Quotes are capsules of information, reinforcement or enlightenment.)   “Don’t be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends. Richard Bach   Coaching Point: Do you agree?   Copyright 2009 Steve Straus. All rights reserved…

(Quotes are capsules of information, reinforcement or enlightenment.)   “Now, what?” Steve Straus   Coaching Point: In the past you may have used this phrase in a downer way, as in, “What else can go wrong?” The comma is the key. Now — right here, not somewhere else; right now, not in the past or…

(Quotes are capsules of information, reinforcement or enlightenment.)   “The art of progress consists in maintaining order within our processes of change, and change within our processes of order.” Dr. Alfred North Whitehead   Coaching Point: Change is rarely as easy to do as it is to imagine doing. How do you change? More specifically…