When analytic thought, the knife, is applied to experience, something is always killed in the process.
Coaching is unlocking a person's potential to maximize their growth
I am able to control only that which I am aware of. That which I am unaware of controls me. Awareness empowers me.
Building awareness and responsibility is the essence of good coaching.
The carrot and the stick are prevasive and persuasive motivators. But if you treat people like donkeys, they will perform like donkeys.
Probems must be resolved at the level beneath the one at which they occur.
Learning to create is essential, necessary, vital & fundamental. It is the centrepiece in which you create the life that you really want
Unity is important but we have to define it. If we are talking about uniformity, that is not helping anybody because our distinctions are important. These are things that God created. I am what I am because I am supposed to be.
One of the memorable moments of my life was when Willard Libby came to Princeton with a little jar full of crystals of barium xenate. A stable compound, looking like common salt, but much heavier. This was the magic of chemistry, to see xenon trapped into a crystal.
I try to stay focused on my life and do try not to be brought into the Hollywood fantasy.
What I am proposing is that we invest from the middle out and the ground up, not the top down. That is not going to work.