Have you ever considered the strength of our beliefs? “Whether or not you think you can or you can’t, you are right” Henry Ford
“The difference between a successful person and the others is NOT a lack of knowledge but a lack of will.” Vince Lombardi
“Sow a thought and you reap an action; sow an action and you reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character; sow a character and you reap a destiny.” Charles Reade
“They can take away everything except one thing: the last of the human freedoms, Man’s own ability to change his own attitude in any given circumstance.” Victor Frankl “Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.” Victor Frankl On Suffering and Despair…
When people say to me: ‘How do you do so many things?’ I often answer them, without meaning to be cruel: ‘How do you do so little?’ It seems to me that people have vast potential. Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don’t. They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever. — Philip Adams
Compared to what?
“When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?’” – Sydney J Harris Sydney J Harris is an American Journalist and Author, who wrote a syndicated column, Strictly Personal, from 1944-86. In NLP, within the Meta Model (part of Communication), this pattern (eg. ‘Life is hard’) is also noted, and it is called a Comparative Deletion. Sydney’s response ‘Compared to what?’ is one of the ways we [Read more...]
Confusion and Learning
Some thoughts about the learning process… Typically people think that success is good and confusion is bad. In our workshops we’re always telling you that success is the most dangerous human experience, because it keeps you from noticing other things and learning other ways of doing things. That also means that any time you fail, there’s an unprecedented opportunity for you to learn something that you wouldn’t otherwise notice. Confusion is the doorway to reorganizing [Read more...]
Aldous Huxley on Facts
“The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.” Hans Hoffman Hans Hoffman, Search for the Real (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1948).
“Life is short, [the] art long, opportunity fleeting, experience deceptive, judgment difficult.”











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