(Quotes are capsules of information, reinforcement or enlightenment.) “True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Coaching Point: But it can be hard, you know? Until we grow enough, then it becomes easy. Where are you now? Copyright 2020 Steve Straus. All rights reserved…

(Quotes are capsules of information, reinforcement or enlightenment.) “The most difficult thing is the decision to act. The rest is merely tenacity.” “decidewhether or not the goal is worth the risks involved. If it is, stop worrying.” “Worry retards reaction and makes clear-cut decisions impossible.” “Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace…

(Quotes are capsules of information, reinforcement or enlightenment.) “You are at a crossroads in this moment. A choice point. The point at which you either embrace the reality of yourself as one with a benevolent universe or continue in the illusion that you are not. You face this choice this moment. You face this choice…

(Quotes are capsules of information, reinforcement or enlightenment.) “So much of any outcome is predetermined by how you think and speak about yourself and events.” and . . . “Although the old narrative was ‘written’ in childhood, it’s not written in stone.” John Sharp M.D. “What thought has done, thought can undo. The mental patterns…

(Quotes are capsules of information, reinforcement or enlightenment.) “We have a responsibility to stand watch over one another, we are watchers, all of us, watchers, guarding against the darkness. . . . we’re all needed.” Dean Koontz Coaching Point: Do you know how to be a watcher? Copyright 2020 Steve Straus. All rights reserved…

(Quotes are capsules of information, reinforcement or enlightenment.) “I don’t have to attend every fight I’m invited to.” A Course in Miracles Coaching Point: I laughed out loud when I first read this. Because I realized I had been susceptible to, shall we say, energetic engagement in debates which hadn’t add any real value to…

(Quotes are capsules of information, reinforcement or enlightenment.) “It’s not that we fear the unknown. You cannot fear something you do not know. Nobody is afraid of the unknown. What you really fear is the loss of the known. That’s what you fear.” Anthony de Mello Coaching Point: I had a hard time with this…

(Quotes are capsules of information, reinforcement or enlightenment.) “A book One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding…

(Quotes are capsules of information, reinforcement or enlightenment.) “When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the losers.” Socrates Coaching Point: Socrates? Really? We’ve had this awareness for how long? And yetI’ve caught myself doing this. Maybe not vicious slander, maybe not even out loud, but when I look at my truth, they…

(Quotes are capsules of information, reinforcement or enlightenment.) “All self-examination should be done with compassion, keeping in mind that past errors arose within a different context.” David Hawkins Coaching Point: “a different context.” So important. Change, experience, and growth are life. Thus, the context changes every day. You are not who you were. Judging your…