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Coaching is guiding a person toward their own inner wisdom, clarity, and sense of possibility.
Tara Sophia Mohr
Every family is a country with its own set of rules and you donât know that thatâs true until you leave your country and you go: âoh, youâre a family and your dad is the one thatâŚâ - Amy Poehler on Conanâs podcast
We have not built a human-needs-first society; we have built a business-needs-first society, and it is starting to show.
âPeople are trying to guess about your future potential, based on your past trajectory. [âŚ] If you donât provide your own chronicle of who you are, one will be given to you. Youâll assume whatever description the other party gives you, dictated by their biases, perceptions and attributions. Donât passively let others dictate your narrative, write
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âThis is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. â 1
âI am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community, and as long
... See moreThe first paragraph is from the play Man and Superman (1903) by Irish playwright, critic, and political activist George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950). It appears in the eloquent, thought-provoking (and lengthy: more than 11,400 words!) dedication, âEpistle Dedicatory to Arthur Bingham Walkley,â of the play. The second paragraph comes from one of his speeches (found in George Bernard Shaw: His Life and His Works by Archibald Henderson). Interestingly, as the Internet has a tendency to do, the first and second paragraphs are erroneously combined, as if they were one thought written by Shaw
âLeadership is not about titles, status, and wielding power. A leader is anyone who steps up and takes responsibility for recognizing the potential in people and ideas, and has the courage to develop that potentialâ (Brown, 2018)
Tyler Cowell: âone of the highest value things you can do in life is raise other people's aspirations.
The bud
stands for all things,
even for those things that don't flower,
for everything flowers, from within, of self-blessing;
though sometimes it is necessary
to reteach a thing its loveliness,
to put a hand on its brow
of the flower
and retell it in words and in touch
it is lovely
until it flowers again from within, of self-blessing;
(portion of poem)
Saint