Releasing the Magic!

Sunday, 12 August 2012

THIS SUNDAY, SEND A THANK YOU NOTE!

"Appreciative words are the most powerful force for good on earth."

George W. Crane

THE FUTURE!

"All I know about the future is that it is what you make it."

Walter Mosley

PASSION AND COMPASSION!

We need to create organisations, enterprises, schools and families that are at the same time both passionate and compassionate.

WHAT MAKES YOU HAPPY?

What is it they say that makes you happy...

Since I left Education Leeds, I have met some incredible colleagues from schools in Sheffield, Nottingham, Lincoln and Leeds and watching the Olympics and Team GB reminded me that coaching, deep practice and sheer hard work are the keys to success.

Really Great Leaders!

Over the holidays I have been thinking about what makes a great leader, a great manager, a great headteacher...

Great Leaders!

Over the holidays I have been thinking about what makes a great leader, a great manager, a great headteacher...

Monday, 6 August 2012

“Do you wish the world were happy?

Then remember day by day

Just to scatter seeds of kindness

As you pass along the way.”

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Sunday, 5 August 2012

HAPPY SUNDAY!

Flowers brighten up even the darkest day and after yesterday's Olympic successes help us all recognise and celebrate that we are at the middle of the greatest sporting show on earth! The opportunities are out there for all of us and hopefully today will bring more success and happiness!

Whatever you are doing and wherever you are have a brilliant day!

Saturday, 4 August 2012

"ADVICE, LIKE YOUTH, PROBABLY JUST WASTED ON THE YOUNG!"

I love the Sunscreen Song which you probably don't know came from this column by Mary Schmich, which was published by the Chicago Tribune on 01 June 1997. Make sure you read it; I know it will make you smile.

Friday, 3 August 2012

“There is no chance, no destiny, no fate,

that can circumvent or hinder or control

the firm resolve of a determined soul.”

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Thursday, 2 August 2012

"The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically...

Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education."

Martin Luther King

Wednesday, 1 August 2012

"What lies behind us and what lies before us

are small matters compared to what lies within us."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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BRILLIANT QUOTES!

"There is no passion to be found playing small -in settling for a life that is less than you are capable of living."

Nelson Mandela

"It always seems impossible until it is done."

Nelson Mandela

"Life isn't measured by the number of breaths we take but the moments that take our breath away."

Anonymous

"Walk with the dreamers, the believers, the courageous, the cheerful, the planners, the doers, the successful people with their heads in the clouds and their feet on the ground. Let their spirit ignite a fire within you to leave this world better than when you found it.”

Wilfred Peterson

"Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves."

James Barrie

"Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve."

Martin Luther King

"Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile."

Albert Einstein

"No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt."

Max Beerbohm

"If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential. For the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible!"

Soren Kierkegaard

"If you are called to be a street sweeper, you should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry."

Martin Luther King

"The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application, and perseverance under the prompting of a brave, determined spirit."

Mark Twain

"The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows, it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts."

Booker T Washington

"It's never too late to be who you might have been."

George Elliot

"Twenty years from now you'll be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do."

Mark Twain

"Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation."

Robert F. Kennedy

"There is nothing in life so difficult that it cannot be overcome. This faith can move mountains. It can change people. It can change the world."

Norman Vincent Peale