(Quotes are capsules of information, reinforcement, or enlightenment.) “Every dream has an origin story.” Tag line for a bank (Origin Bank, of course) Coaching Point: We frequently talk about dreams. The importance of having dreams. The motivation they provide. The organizing energy they attract. Their ultimate effect. Dreams are important. Look deeper. Something causes each…

(Quotes are capsules of information, reinforcement, or enlightenment.) “Lovers don’t need to always understand each other,as long as they’re understanding of each other.” Rudolph Lambert Fernandez Coaching Point: You never know where wisdom will make itself obvious! This quote was in a review of the now decades-old Oscar-winning movie “Children of a Lesser God.” The…

(Quotes are capsules of information, reinforcement, or enlightenment.) “Play!” The advice of countless wise people Coaching Point: The act of playing creates energy.It triggers creativity.Play provides a path to escape from mind numbing routine.Play attracts others to join you.And yet many people (read: adults) have forgotten to tap into and benefit from play.Do you have…

(Quotes are capsules of information, reinforcement, or enlightenment.) “The only obligationwhich I have a right to assumeis to do at any timewhat I think right.” Henry David Thoreau Coaching Point: This quote can be viewed from two directions. Perhaps the classic or at least more common way is to see it as a flag for…

(Quotes are capsules of information, reinforcement, or enlightenment.) “Sometimes it is the peoplewho no one imagines anything ofwho do the thingsthat no one can imagine.” Said about Alan Turing Coaching Point: Turing was the creator of the first complete specification of an electronic stored-program all-purpose digital computer. Standing on the shoulders of the work of…

(Quotes are capsules of information, reinforcement, or enlightenment.) “Americans always do the right thing,after they’ve tried everything else.” Winston Churchill Coaching Point: Churchill was a friend and fan of America. His comment was not intended as a ‘knock’ against it, rather an observation of how the USA processes and progresses. But his view has a…

(Quotes are capsules of information, reinforcement, or enlightenment.) “Dreams are not so different from deeds as some may think.All the deeds of men are only dreams at first.And in the end, their deeds dissolve into dreams.”and“If you will it, it is no dream;and if you do not will it,a dream it is and a dream…

(Quotes are capsules of information, reinforcement, or enlightenment.) “Rule Number One is this: If you’re open to learning, you get your life-lessons delivered as gently as the tickle of a feather. But if you’re defensive, if you stubbornly persist in being right instead of learning the lesson at hand, if you stop paying attention to…

(Quotes are capsules of information, reinforcement, or enlightenment.) “Pilots are a rare kind of human.They leave the ordinary surface of the world,to purify their soul in the sky,and they come down to earth,only after receiving the communion of the infinite.” Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra Coaching Point: Pilots know this about flying. It exists for others…

(Quotes are capsules of information, reinforcement, or enlightenment.) “ children are innate scientists, probing, puttering, experimenting with the possible and impossible in a confused local universe. Children and scientists share an outlook on life. If I do this, what will happen? is both the motto of the child at play and the defining refrain of…