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Coaching Thought:

Fear keeps us playing a small game, nervous to put our heads above the parapet, hiding in the safety of a lukewarm life. But people who spend all their time thinking about problems are in danger of imagining a false reality. Challenges are there to lift us to higher performance. We must do something, and stop wallowing in fearful thoughts.  'Thinking will not overcome fear, but action will!' W. Clement Stone.

Change is the foundation of all progress and development in the entire universe.  Without change, we stagnate and atrophy. Without change, there can be no rewal. 'The greatest remedy in the world is change…It is the opposite of change that holds us back…Real change… is always internal. It is the change within that first produces the change without. …. It is the renewal of mind that produces better health, more happiness, greater power, the increase of life, and the consequent increase of all that is good in life…He who can change his mind every day and think the new about everything every day will always be well; he will always have happiness; he will always be free; his life will always be interesting; he will constantly move forward into the larger, the richer and the better.' ~ Christian D Larson

Coaching Thought:

'The biggest mistake we could ever make in our lives is to think we work for anybody but ourselves.'  ~ Brian Tracy. Most of us are too busy doing our day to day jobs, but our careers are far too important to ignore and hope for the best, or to leave in the hands of anyone else.  Like our goals, we need to have a direction and outcome, and we need a plan to get there, and we need to work it. We need to be taking strategic moves and upskilling ourselves accordingly, in order to be in the next best position on the chessboard of our careers. This is our responsibility.

In this TED talk, Ruth Chang discusses what makes hard choices so tough for us, how we’ve confused ourselves by thinking that one choice is always better than another, that they can be quantified, and a numerical worth placed on them somehow. What happens when a choice is neither better, worse nor equal to another? The difference probably lies in competing values which can’t be quantified – that’s why tough choices are so hard.