| Thomas Leonard Quotes |
| Written by Thomas Leonard | |
| Tuesday, 01 April 2008 | |
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A lifestyle is what you pay for; a life is what pays you.
All people want in life is to be gotten.
As long as you're willing to be creative for the rest of your life, and to
learn the new skills in the creative area, you will never - as far as I can tell
- lose your edge. You will never lose your place by the computer.
Your job will never be in the kind of jeopardy it might be in today.
Because once you develop these creative skills you get creative about new
revenue streams, new job functions, new ideas...You'll be in charge of your
future, you'll be in charge of your destiny, because creativity is the answer!
As you ask yourself (what's perfect) in the present moment you'll find
yourself more familiar with what's happening in the moment so you're less
blindsided by events that surprise you.
Attraction doesn't work in the future - it works right now. A magnet
doesn't work in the future - it works right now.
Attraction is about living life and living it well and see what finds you.
Attraction pulls your forward instead of having to push yourself forward.
Balance is overrated.
Be annoying.
Be attractive to yourself - give up a bad habit.
Be there. Or not.
Become so attuned - so aware - of different aspects of yourself that you
define success on your terms, around your needs, your desires and your
background.
Being selfish is about being self full - filling yourself up from the inside.
Better early than squirrelly.
Bigness is better.
Boredom is the gatekeeper of peace.
Compensate for vanilla.
Commitment is what your boss needs you to have. Choice is what you need to have.
Creation is impossible; it already happened. However, you can move it around and call it yours before someone else does, even though it isn't.
Demanding the best around you is either a reflection or a shadow of who you are.
Don't be drab.
Don't let the future be the basis of your decision making today.
Ego is good.
(Environmental) space management is more important than time management.
Earthquakes happen around faults. Get rid of yours, have lots of insurance, or move to Kansas.
Either you are creating your life or the circumstances are.
Even the best statements are no more than useful lies.
Fame is limited to 15 minutes. Infamy is timeless and love is eternal.
Faith, hope and charity: faith that you'll be saved, hope that you're right and charity for insurance.
Fear is natural. Be with it.
Focusing on the problem reinforces it. Focus on the results; problems will take care of themselves.
Get on a path; stop looking for direction.
Great coaching is not really about coaching skills, competencies or even proficiencies. It's about being a great person. Great people make great coaches.
Having everything is just the beginning.
He who suffers attracts reasons to continue.
How can you be attractive if there's something between you and them?
I'm not saying the present has to be perfect. I'm not saying it IS
perfect. I'm saying see how perfect the present it. LOOK to see
where the perfect is in the present. If it is perfect, as well, what'
perfect about it? Until (you) find that, you're going to be in reacting to
the present... Thomas Leonard Quotes
I don't want to change anymore. I just want to be more of myself.
If at first you don't succeed, try something that you're already successful at.
I prefer the bounty of contribution to the scarcity of accumulation.
If I were a new coach just starting out and I was feeling like I needed credentials to feel good about marketing my coaching services, here’s what I would do…
If it needs adrenaline, it's not a task it's a problem.
If life is empty and meaningless then what matters? You.
If you can't see what's perfect in the present it's probably because you're
working in the past or in the future.
If you don't have things come to you in the flavor that you want, in the
taste that you want, it's going to hold you back.
I'm busy supporting a lifestyle and not living a life.
Inspiration is when you're motivated by a person or an idea. Strict
motivation is often when you're inspired by an objective, a goal.
Integrity reveals beauty.
Invest in your ability to be creative in general, in your ability to take an
idea from an inkling all the way to a revenue stream.
It’s about being INTEGRATED, so that all the parts of your life and yourself are cooperating smoothly to honor your best interests.
It's done with you're finished; it's complete when it doesn't come back to bite you for 5 years.
It's not perfection - but it's perfect.
It's fairly expensive and takes energy to think about. You have to
remind yourself to do it and I would very much rather not have to force myself
to be present by breathing (for example) - I'd much rather unhook myself from a
future that's distracting me from the present.
Language makes us distinct from the other animals. We need more language fast.
Life is simple but not always easy.
Life starts when you make the choice to be authentically alive for the rest of it.
Living well is one part skill, one part love and 80 parts practice.
Love is a four letter word for eternity.
Love is like sourdough starter. You have to keep some for yourself so you can keep on loving.
Love is a way to gift yourself to others.
Love is something you get, not earn.
Making God right is the first step of development.
Men are born to be; they learn to do, they forget to be.
Morals are only for those who doubt what's right and wrong. And who think other people should know the difference.
Motivation is an external, temporary high that PUSHES you forward. Inspiration is a sustainable internal glow which PULLS you forward.
Movement isn't progress.
Needs are what your heart must have to function; wants are what keep you mind engages.
Never give so much that you can't regenerate within the hour.
Nothing great was every achieved by trying to be so.
One can never content to mimic when one feels an impulse to create.
Opportunity doesn't knock; it waits to be invited in.
Opportunities don't knock, they whisper. So shut up and listen.
Overwhelmed? Clean out your closets!
People see the world not as it is, but as they are.
People tell me they want to create the future or complete the past, both of which are full-time jobs. I suggest engaging in the present which replaces the past and is the future.
Potential is what they call what you're not likely to accomplish. Life life as if you have none.
Problems are what they call what we haven't yet become responsible for.
Pushing is tiring; it has a cost.
Question to ask your underemployed coaching client, from Thomas Leonard Quotes.
Reflect light.
Relief is only a taste of freedom. Go for the freedom!
Rise above yourself.
Schedule in your emergencies.
Set things up so things come to you!
So, whatever is having you not be in the present is going to have you be less
attractive.
Some people just aren't built to listen. Thomas Leonard Quotes
Stop trying so hard for life to be effortless! Does the river try to run uphill? You shouldn't either.
Struggling is for actors, not humans.
The client is much more important on their worst day than I ever am on my very, very best day.
The future is incredibly sexy and if your present life isn't - fix THAT!
The future is very seductive; it's very exciting. It's a (large part of
most people's lives) and a very small part of mine.
These principles might just take you over the edge so you start to fly.
The sky isn't falling.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that we are unique. The greatest discovery of the next generation, I pray, is that we are one.
The if-then combination should be banned from our thought processes. Its a legal way to lie to our self.
To be or to do? Being is easier, doing produces results. I know - I'll be as I do - easier results.
To love, to care, to create - and not to hope.
Turmoil stimulates.
Typically we're not just designing and creating our future; we're being
seduced by it.
What are the 10 things you most want to happen in the next 90 days?
What's already there in life that's inspiring to you rather than you finding
something to go force yourself.
When you're up, adrenaline owns you. When you're down, it's re-supplying. When you're even, it finds some other fool.
When you speak charge up, people have to listen. When you speak charge down, people don't want to listen. But when you speak charge neutral, people hear you.
Work is an expression of one's values: struggling is an expression of one's unmet needs.
You are the gift, so give yourself.
You are the gift, your life is the box and your love is the bow.
You can only get a good view from a hi-rise, but perspective comes from a mountain peak. Climb before you decide.
You can have an impact on the future but you have control over the present.
You can't be creative and conform.
You'll spend more time with people that have the capacity and the willingness
to be trained.
You have more natural energy when you are complete with your environment, well-being, money and relationships.
You have two parts: your ego and your self. So do M&Ms. The hard candy coating is the ego: the chocolate is the self.
You never know how powerful you are until a wise one puts you on a pedestal.
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