Fearless !

‘Somebody should tell us …right at the start of our lives…that we are dying.Then we might live to the limit,every minute of every day.Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows” Michael Landon

Be fearless …What will you do today ?

Be Brave

Whatever we learn to do, we learn by actually doing it. People come to be builders, for instance, by building, and harp players by playing the harp. In the same way, by doing just acts we come to be just. By doing self controlled acts, we come to be self-controlled, and by doing brave acts we become brave.” Aristotle

How can you be brave today ?

Life is Now

“It does no good to search frantically for peace, to seek anxiously after love,joy or freedom. If you want joy, be joyful. If you want peace, be peaceful” Cheri Huber

Sometimes modern life with its pace, demands and the expectations we place on ourselves can lead you to seek in the future something that is available in the present. And I dont know which “state” you would like more of now, love, happiness, freedom but what I do know is that they are all there within you as you read this blog.

Coaching question: What do I love to do that brings me alive ?

Further Reading: “Suffering is Optional” Cheri Huber

Living your Passion

This is one of the best talks I have ever heard. Passion, humour and intelligence. It made me think about a lot of things,in particular what I have given up on in my life when success may have been around the corner . What can you learn in the future that you may have not even considered in the past.
And how you can live with passion everyday…!
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Leadership principles to apply for everybody!

You know, often when I’m talking to people about leadership issues, many will write the topic off because they just don’t believe they are a leader.
There is a common misperception out there that leaders are people in well paying, executive jobs. In other words, people just think that to be a leader, you must be in a corporate career.
But the fact of the matter is that leadership is something each one of us has at some point in time.
Examples of everyday leaders
If you are in a partnership with a spouse, if you have children, if you have friends, if you have relatives…there are many non work-related situations where you need to take on those attributes of good leaders.
I have an excellent quote that I have loved for a long time that really brings the whole leadership topic down to the earth level. Here’s what it says:
“If I accept you as who you are, I will make you worse; however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.”
That quote came from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe – many of you may have heard of him, but for those who haven’t, he was a German natural philosopher who was also a novelist, playwright, diplomat and poet.
Read that quote again, because what it says really is amazing.
It basically says that for us to be great leaders…
…we must see the potential in other people!
Think about your really great friends. Chances are, they are people who encourage you in everything you do! They are people who are there to help you achieve those things you really want to achieve in your life.
They treat you as though you are capable of becoming – just as Goethe said!
Great friends do this, and great bosses, parents and spouses do as well.
Recognising one’s potential is the attribute of a great leader, but as you can see, it’s also a great attribute when it comes to our personal relationships as well.
It’s all about believing in other people and acting and saying things in accordance with that.
If we open our eyes to this great leadership attribute and start implementing it in all of our interpersonal relationships TODAY, it’s amazing what effect it will have both on yourself and on everybody you know.
Believing in other people is contagious as well. If you really give somebody else encouragement, it makes them feel great! And then they will do the same to somebody else, who in turn will feel great and pass it onto others.
You don’t have to be a high flying executive in a suit to start implementing great leadership qualities like this one. Try it today and put it to the test!