(Quotes are capsules of information, reinforcement or enlightenment.)   “However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.” Winston Churchill   Coaching Point: Is there an assumption you have which needs checking?   Copyright 2007 Steve Straus. All rights reserved…

(Quotes are capsules of information, reinforcement or enlightenment.)   “Expect performance. Don’t expect success.” Tiger Woods   Coaching Point: What!? Don’t expect success? That sounds wrong. We’re taught to want to succeed. But Tiger’s point is to put your attention on your performance — the plan, every action, receiving and evaluating feedback, course-correction — and…

(Quotes are capsules of information, reinforcement or enlightenment.)   “Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful.” Annette Funicello   Coaching Point: How long are you going to impatiently wait for perfect, when you already have wonderful?   Copyright 2007 Steve Straus. All rights reserved…

(Quotes are capsules of information, reinforcement or enlightenment.)   “Speed is a great solution for increasing income and productivity, but those benefits are only one piece of the picture. The bigger reason we should speed up is to make time for meaningful experiences. Speed is not just the way to get more work done– speed…

(Quotes are capsules of information, reinforcement or enlightenment.)   “The great bulk of planning for the future, to the extent we do it at all, is putting patches on the present, as opposed to creating a future from the raw material of possibility, which has a lot more power.” John Barnes   Coaching Point: Planning…

(Quotes are capsules of information, reinforcement or enlightenment.)   “Build your own board.” The character “Big Z” in the animated movie “Surf’s Up”   Coaching Point: They’re talking about surfboards. About how you can buy a new board or get a used board from another surfer. But the wise mentor (“Big Z”) advises the youngster…

(Quotes are capsules of information, reinforcement or enlightenment.)   “History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.” Alexis de Tocqueville – Historian   Coaching Point: Are you free to be an original?   Copyright 2007 Steve Straus. All rights reserved…

(Quotes are capsules of information, reinforcement or enlightenment.)   “When the What and the Why get big enough, the How will show up.” Steve Straus   Coaching Point: Most people rush into trying to figure out how they’re going to accomplish some outcome. They’ve got it backwards. Spend enough time defining, designing, and describing What…

(Quotes are capsules of information, reinforcement or enlightenment.)   “He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.” Epictetus   Coaching Point: On which do you focus your attention? Have or have not? Gratitude or lack?   Copyright 2007 Steve Straus…

(Quotes are capsules of information, reinforcement or enlightenment.)   “Additional problems are the offspring of poor solutions.” Mark Twain   Coaching Point: Smoke jumpers — forest fire fighters — know that a fire is out only when they use their bare hands to feel through the dirt and debris, checking for hot spots and finding…