Collection of Coaching Gems

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“Respect is like air. As long as it's present, nobody thinks about it. But if you take it away, it's all that people can think about. ” - Ron McMillan, Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High

“Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.” – John Lennon 

 “The more you do of what you’re doing, the more you’ll get of what you’ve got.” - Unknown

“Life is 10 percent what happens to you and 90 percent how you respond to it.” -Charles Swindoll 

"People don’t change until the pain of staying the same is worse than the pain of changing.” - Unknown

“You can’t read the label of the jar that you are in.” - Unknown

"All models  are flawed.  Some models are useful." - George Box (statistician)

"You can't eat someone's broccoli for them." - Unknown

“It is not the critic who counts; 

not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, 

or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. 

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, 

whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; 

who strives valiantly; 

who errs, 

who comes short again and again, 

because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; 

but who does actually strive to do the deeds; 

who knows great enthusiasms, 

the great devotions; 

who spends himself in a worthy cause; 

who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, 

and who at the worst, 

if he fails, 

at least fails while daring greatly, 

so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.” 

– Theodore Roosevelt

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. 

Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. 

It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. 

We ask ourselves, 

‘Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous?’ 

Actually, who are you not to be? 

You are a child of God. 

Your playing small does not serve the world. 

There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people will not feel insecure around you. 

We are all meant to shine, as children do. 

We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. 

It is not just in some of us; 

it is in everyone and 

as we let our own light shine, 

we unconsciously give others permission to do the same. 

As we are liberated from our own fear, 

our presence automatically liberates others.”

-Marianne Williamson  

Fixing the airplane while it's in flight

Putting on your parachute doesn't mean that you have to jump out of the plane.  It just means that you are ready for the unexpected.  How close are you to getting your parachute buckled on?