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'My goal in life is to be as good a person my dog already thinks I am.'

Author unknown

A silly one for my final quote! I don't have a dog, but occasionally borrow an elderly lurcher from friends, and the welcome he gives me boosts my ego for the whole day! Thanks, Blaze!

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'You are in charge of your feelings, beliefs, and actions. And you teach others how to behave toward you. While you cannot change other people, you can influence them through your own behaviors and actions. By being a living role model of what you want to receive from others, you create more of what you want in your life.'

Eric Allenbaugh

I know through my own experience how true this is, and also how much easier it is to blame others for their 'bad' behaviour!

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Favourite Quotes 27

'Some things cannot be spoken or discovered until we have been stuck, incapacitated, or blown off course for awhile. Plain sailing is pleasant, but you are not going to explore many unknown realms that way.'

David Whyte

I certainly find it is true that I am most creative when things aren't going my way and I have to try different ways to get back on track.

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'You have to find something that you love enough to be able to take risks, jump over the hurdles and break through the brick walls that are always going to be placed in front of you. If you don't have that kind of feeling for what it is you're doing, you'll stop at the first giant hurdle.'

George Lucas

Sometimes it can seem as though successful people have some sort of magic - all we see is the success and the glory. What we don't see is all the hard work that has gone into the success and all the obstacles they had to overcome to get there.
Recently I heard Mario Testino, the fashion photographer, on Desert Island Discs. Apparently for 7 years he rented a flat which was part of a homeless shelter because it was all he could afford. He used to ring potential clients from a payphone - sometimes up to 30 times before he got an appointment! The gulf between that and his present lifestyle is amazing, but incredibly encouraging.

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'Be not afraid of growing slowly; be afraid only of standing still.'

Chinese Proverb

Sometimes it feels that not only am I learning slowly, I am actually going backwards. A friend reminded me the other day that when that happens, we are not really going backwards, just encountering an issue on another level and one day we will get to the core of it and not have to face it any more.

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'I find it fascinating that most people plan their vacations with better care than they plan their lives. Perhaps that is because escape is easier than change.'

Jim Rohn

So many of us just let our lives drift. Do you have a plan for your life? You may want to read the goal-setting pages on my coaching website.

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Favourite Quotes 23

'Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.'

Mark Twain

Have you ever confided your dearest-held ambition to someone, only to have them pour scorn or doubt on the whole thing? It used to demoralise me, until I realised it said more about them than about my plans. Now I tend to follow Wayne Dyer's advice and keep it to myself until I am well on the way. I find it keeps the energy much clearer.

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'The big challenge is to become all that you have the possibility of becoming. You cannot believe what it does to the human spirit to maximize your human potential and stretch yourself to the limit.'

Jim Rohn

I have a couple of Jim Rohn tapes which are great to listen to in the car. He has a very distinctive way of expressing himself which is relaxing and funny, as well as instructive.

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'Every situation can be a positive situation if you look upon it as an opportunity for growth and self-improvement.'

Brian Tracy

Another good one to bear in mind when it all seems to be going down the pan!

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'The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.'

Theodore Rubin, playwright

A really good one to remember when you are in the thick of it and it seems everyone else is sailing serenely through life!

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'What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by
achieving your goals.'

Zig Ziglar

I started out with just a few quotations, but suddenly they are popping up all over the place!

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'Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.'

Albert Schweitzer

People often come to me for coaching because they are not happy with what they are doing. Coaching moves them towards something better.

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'Happiness is when what you think, what you say and what you do are in harmony.'

Gandhi

This is the underlying goal of many people I coach, and the coaching always helps them to progress towards it, if they are truly ready to change and do things differently.

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'I can’t go back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.'

Lewis Carroll

If we are constantly learning and growing, then this is true. Have you ever had the experience of putting on some clothes you haven't worn for a while and feeling transported back to the person you were then? It can feel very uncomfortable and the clothes may have to go, even if they are still in good condition!

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Favourite Quotes 15

'Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.'

H. Jackson Brown

An encouraging thought, and one that I certainly need to refer to from time to time.

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'In the end it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.'

Max de Pree

I came across this one in the 'New Client Magnet' by David Ferrers, who provides help and advice for people who have their own business but don't like selling! I have found the information very useful in my own training and coaching practice.

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'Whether you believe you can or believe you can’t, either way you’re right.'

Henry Ford

How often do we limit our potential achievements by not believing something is attainable for us?

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Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence.
Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent.
Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.
Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts.
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933)

This is quoted in various places in the SiteBuildIt! guide to building your own website by Ken Evoy. We used SBI! to build our executive coaching site.

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