(Quotes are capsules of information, reinforcement or enlightenment.)   “We are the hurdles we leap to be ourselves.” Michael McClure   Coaching Point: Unless you agree with that statement your only option is to blame someone else for being a hurdle in your life. What if you let all other people just be themselves and…

(Quotes are capsules of information, reinforcement or enlightenment.)   “You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don’t know what was in the newspaper that morning, you don’t know who your friends are, you don’t know what you owe anybody, you don’t know what anybody owes you. This…

(Quotes are capsules of information, reinforcement or enlightenment.)   “It looked so bad I had to close my eyes to see it.” Pam Straus   Coaching Point: Just about everything has its useful and not so useful sides. Sometimes we can be distracted by a distasteful outer and fail to see and take advantage of…

(Quotes are capsules of information, reinforcement or enlightenment.)   “Go make yourself obvious.” Steve Straus   Coaching Point: Define your market, sure. Knock on doors, yes. Ask for the order, of course. But beyond all those clearly useful activities you want to have the attitude and feeling that you’re involved in something useful for others…

(Quotes are capsules of information, reinforcement or enlightenment.)   “It’s so hard when I have to, but so easy when I want to.” Anonymous   Coaching Point: Sure, it’s clear that you do Want-to’s easily, but what keeps you from doing what you want to? Is it Fear? Permission? “What will they think?” “I don’t…

(Quotes are capsules of information, reinforcement or enlightenment.)   “We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.” William Faulkner   Coaching Point: We tend to think of freedom at a nation-state level, but this is about you. Where are you not free to live your life and what needs…

(Quotes are capsules of information, reinforcement or enlightenment.)   “Criticize by creating.” Michelangelo   Coaching Point: What a re-frame! Most people just criticize, expect the world to change, and then stay upset when it doesn’t. But what if, every time you felt like criticizing, you, instead, started creating something better than that which you are…

(Quotes are capsules of information, reinforcement or enlightenment.)   “To accuse others for one’s own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one’s education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one’s education is complete.” Epictetus   Coaching Point: Things in your life may not be…

(Quotes are capsules of information, reinforcement or enlightenment.)   “Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.” James Madison   Coaching Point: Where are you gaining knowledge today?   Copyright 2008 Steve Straus. All rights reserved…

(Quotes are capsules of information, reinforcement or enlightenment.)   “Money is anything that you HAVE (meaning possess, control, have access to, can do, or can create, etc.) that you can exchange with someone else who has been persuaded that what YOU HAVE has sufficient value to exchange it for something THEY HAVE that you have…