Challenge Thought:
Reasonableness is one of the lowest forms of being alive.
Herb Tanzer Quotes
Coaching Challenge:
I grew up in a deeply Southern style family. We placed a high value on things like being polite, thoughtful, kind, and above all – reasonable.
It was unthinkable to make unreasonable requests of people or to behave in an unreasonable way.
While I’m certainly not advocating being insensitive to people being reasonable is a monument to mediocrity.
It’s the most generic flavor on the shelf.
What if we unfettered ourselves and decided to lead with our hearts? What if we began to trust ourselves enough to honor the callings within us and have faith that it will all work out? That we’ll find a way? What if we began to celebrate the unreasonable and honored our longing for an unreasonable life? And what if we fanned the flames in the hearts of our loved ones to break free of their own chains and chased unreasonable dreams with them? What if we took those times where we crossed a line and infringed on someone else as an opportunity to love them and ourselves and to make it right in an unreasonable way?
Would the shape of your day begin to resemble the life you long for?
Your partner in saying ‘YES!’ passionately to life,
Tracy Phaup
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Challenge Thought:
The reason we make ourselves miserable is because we’re hoping for a better past.
Author Unknown Quotes
Coaching Challenge:
If you’re much of a football fan at all you’re already familiar with the idea of Monday Night Quarterbacking. For those of you that aren’t football is played on Sundays. By Monday night everybody knows which plays failed and the criticisms are flying. After all, they shouldn’t have called that play, now should they? How do we know? It didn’t work out.
We do the same thing to ourselves.
We look back on past decisions and judge ourselves, our competency and our worth by how the decision worked out.
And it’s just as unfair to Monday Night Quarterback ourselves as it is our favorite Pro player.
I don’t think a life of no regrets means that we don’t ever look back on our lives without any. For me its come to mean that I am continually developing a new relationship with my past decisions and the reasons I made them and to expand my ability to love myself and to celebrate my life irregardless.
It means that I have appreciation and compassion for the reasons I made the choices I made and I trust that I was doing the absolute best that I could with the choices I had available to me at the time.
And it means that I have that same opportunity to appreciate, trust and love the people that were and/or are on the journey with me.
We can’t change the facts of our past but we can still completely rewrite our history if we’re willing to change our hearts about the past. What regrets are you willing to let go of today and to love and celebrate yourself for instead?
Your partner in saying ‘YES!’ passionately to life,
Tracy Phaup
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Challenge Thought:
Come on baby! Wake up! TGIM (Thank God It’s Monday)! It’s a new day! Let’s seize the day- maximize the moments- make the most of every opportunity!
Julio Melara Quotes
Coaching Challenge:
Kids are so amazing! I watch my 17 month old grand-niece Hanna tirelessly repeat the same actions over and over, sometimes for hours, and she calls it play.
Every time she does the same thing again there’s something about it that is brand new and fascinating for her.
For us it’s not that easy. We wake up in the same bed, to the same faces, and get in the same car and drive to the same job.
Hanna doesn’t find variety – she invents it! She’s fully awake and connected to every moment of her world and plays it full out, no holds barred – win, lose or draw!
As much as we crave that kind of life very few of us are willing to pay the ticket price to earn it. We’d have to be willing to stop sleep-walking through our days. It would require a conscious effort – all day every day – to be fully aware and present to our lives. We’d have to be disciplined and begin to train down the thoughts and actions that disconnect us from our world and begin to make new choices that pull the veil away and pave the way for us to immerse ourselves in life.
And the bad news for most of us is that we’d have a lot of cleaning up and facing up to do if we did.
The good news? The payoffs will be wildly out of proportion to the costs. Isn’t a life truly worth living worth the time, effort and energy?
Your partner in saying ‘YES!’ passionately to life,
Tracy Phaup
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Challenge Thought:
You just don’t luck into things as much as you’d like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it’s friendships or opportunities.
Barbara Bush Quotes
Coaching Challenge:
It can be hard sometimes to recognize and appreciate the power of incremental improvement. I’ve heard it said that we consistently overestimate how much we can get done in a day and underestimate how much we can get done in a year.
Ancient wisdom teaches that if you want to reach Mecca, just make sure every step you take takes you in that direction.
What a painless way to work towards a grand accomplishment!
Today would be a good day to dust off our dreams and goals and decide which ones are ready to be released because we’ve outgrown them, and to start taking steps towards the ones worthy of us. None of us have to reach Mecca today, but what steps can we take that will powerfully forward us in that direction?
Your partner in saying ‘YES!’ passionately to life,
Tracy Phaup
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Challenge Thought:
Integrity reveals beauty.
Thomas Leonard Quotes
Coaching Challenge:
I’m a very practical human being in many ways. One of the reasons why I safeguard my integrity is because of the goodies that come with it. It makes my life simpler and easier. It offers me benefits like not having to live in fear of being found out or caught. I don’t have unexpected consequences come out of nowhere as a result of bad behavior. I’m considered safe and trustworthy by people. And the list goes on!
But one of the things I recognize in that is that it’s a really small way to look at integrity.
By my willingness to enlarge my capacity for integrity I know I’m opening the door for things I can’t even begin to yet imagine and I’m looking forward to finding out what my integrity will reveal.
Today’s coaching? Trust that expanding your own integrity will bring a rich harvest and look for opportunities to practice. And yes – tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth – and find a way to do it that’s loving and empowering for everyone, including yourself.
Your partner in saying ‘YES!’ passionately to life,
Tracy Phaup
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