Become all you can become with Sophie
He that won't be counselled, can't be helped
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The secret of happy producers… NOT what time they get up in the morning, or how many books they read…
My students, like popcorn, are starting to pop at the same time. It is hard to say what made each pop… especially if your vocabulary (the number of distinction) is not keeping up with the richness of the invisible reality. Continue reading “The secret of happy producers… NOT what you expect”
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The first question that you should ask when I suggest you become a better human being, is ‘what do you mean: better?‘ Continue reading “Will Practicing Compassion Make You A Better Human?”
I have found this article on the Inc.com website
Some of it is true, some of it was new-agey b.s. So I am culling it… And in some of them I am going to add my two cents worth… for example the pursuit of happiness… I have learned something about that from Ayn Rand that surprised me.
Just one more thing: my students in my coaching program struggle with the concept of principle.
A principle is a fundamental truth or proposition that serves as the foundation for a system of belief or behavior or for a chain of reasoning.
A principle is not something that you just pull out of your, ahem, mind. We all want to be “independent thinkers” but the path to independent thinking is through learning the principles others discovered… precisely, verbatim. So, for our purposes: a principle is quoted from someone a lot smarter than us.
A quote. not rephrased, not your take on it, but a quote. Not every quote is a principle, but every principle is a quote.
These so called truths are not principles. They are the author’s opinions. Don’t honor them as principles… And if you find that your life is based on personal opinions… try to find principles to replace them with. Really. Every single one of them. You’ll thank me for it, guaranteed.
You’ll notice that I am a lot more interested in giving you the principle of principle guidedness… than those brutal truths the guy made up… Sorry guy!
Continue reading “20 Blunt Truths About Life. Truth No One Wants to Admit”
