Big Idea Coach

They're all waiting for you...

"Are you waiting
for someone to lead and inspire you
for the boss to recognize you
for clients to thank you
for the world to hail you
well here's a news flash
they are all just sitting there too
waiting for you..."
                        -- Minolta Office Systems advertisement

The price of change...

"The price of change is measured by our effort, our will and courage, our persistence in the face of difficulty… The ultimate price is the willingness to fail and get hurt if it does not work."

                                                -- Peter Block

A wish for the perfect life...

"If I could wish for my life to be perfect, it would be tempting but I would have to decline,for life would no longer teach me anything.
                                                --Allyson Jones

Love does not consist in....

“Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction.”

                                                --Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

The secret of the interesting man...

“The secret of a man who is universally interesting is that he is universally interested.”

                                                --William Dean Howells

The Self is not something one finds...

“People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the Self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.”

                                                --Thomas Szasz

Mishaps are like knives...

“Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us up, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.”

                                                --James Russell Lowell

You have to know how to accept...

“You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.”

                                                --Ray Bradbury

Success comes to those...

“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.”

                                                --Henry David Thoreau