#QuoteOfTheDay
“Art being so much greater than ourselves, it will not give up once it has taken hold.” (Emily Carr)
#QuestionsForCoaches
What has quietly taken hold in you?
What if it doesn’t require force, only space?
No need to answer. Just something to notice.
#QuoteOfTheDay
“Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.” (Benjamin N. Cardozo)
#QuestionsForCoaches
Where are you relying on method over instinct?
What shifts when you allow inspiration to lead?
No need to answer. Just something to notice.
#QuoteOfTheDay
“There is endless merit in a man's knowing when to have done.” (Thomas Carlyle)
#QuestionsForCoaches
How do you know when something is done?
If it were truly OK for something to be done, what might already be complete?
No need to answer. Just something to notice.
#QuoteOfTheDay
“All the king's horses and all the king's men can't put the past together again. So let's remember: Don't try to saw sawdust.” (Dale Carnegie)
#QuestionsForCoaches
Where are you revisiting something that’s already complete?
What becomes possible when you stop trying to rework what’s done?
No need to answer. Just something to notice.
#QuoteOfTheDay
“Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to the present.” (Albert Camus)
#QuestionsForCoaches
Where might you be postponing your life for a future version of yourself?
What would it mean to give yourself more fully to today?
No need to answer. Just something to notice.
#QuoteOfTheDay
“There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”
(Zora Neale Hurston)
#QuestionsForCoaches
What kind of year does this feel like for you?
What question might be quietly forming?
No need to answer. Just something to notice.
#QuoteOfTheDay
“Wise people say it is folly to think anybody perfect; and as to likes and dislikes, we should be friendly to all, and worship none.”
(Charlotte Brontë)
#QuestionsForCoaches
Where are you placing someone on a pedestal?
What changes when you meet people as human?
No need to answer. Just something to notice.
#QuoteOfTheDay
“It is in the nature of any effort to leave something serviceable behind it.”
(Mary Butts)
#QuestionsForCoaches
What has your effort already left behind?
Where might something useful remain?
No need to answer. Just something to notice.
#QuoteOfTheDay
“Time is the most terrible, the most discouraging, the most unconquerable of all obstacles.”
(Marie Bashkirtseff)
#QuestionsForCoaches
Where does time feel like an enemy?
What changes when you stop trying to conquer it?
No need to answer. Just something to notice.
#QuoteOfTheDay
“Some peoples' lives are affected by what happens to their person or their property; but for others fate is what happens to their feelings and their thoughts.”
(Willa Cather)
#QuestionsForCoaches
Where are thoughts shaping your sense of fate?
What shifts when you see that more clearly?
No need to answer. Just something to notice.
Coaching Confidence Jen Waller