Nicole Vidor Life Coach

08.21.08 | explore your assumptions.
"In the mind of the expert, there are no possibilities...in the mind of the beginner, all possibilities exist."

08.04.08 | A Zen Forest
"For those who wait only for flowers to bloom, I wish I could show them the Spring grass in the snow of a mountain village."

08.03.08 | leading ones life
"Man need only divert his attention from searching for the solution to external questions and pose the one, true inner question of how he should lead his life, and all the external questions will be resolved in the best possible way."
Leo Tolstoy

07.29.08 | Knitting.
"Concepts can never be presented to me merely, they must be knitted into the structure of my being, and this can only be done through my own activity."
M.P.Follett, 'Creative Experience

07.04.08 | "Oh God, help me to see the truth about myself, however beautiful it may be."
"You have to leave the city of your comfort and go in to the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself."
Alan Alda

07.03.08 | Every person is endowed with the capacity to be creative.
"The main thing that hinders creative thinking is our belief that we are not creative. Look at it this way. If you tell yourself; 'I am a creative human being', then you have to have beliefs about yourself to support that identity. If you tell yourself, 'I am just an ordinary person.' than you will have a different set of beliefs. Once you have a particular identity and set of beliefs about yourself, you will become interested in seeking out the skills needed to express your identity and beliefs. If you believe that you are 'uncreative,' then there is no need to learn how to become creative."
Ned Herman, 'The Creative Brain'

06.18.08 | consider this...
Struggle creates more struggle. Cultivate having fun.

06.18.08 | In this moment exists the opportunity to shift the focus.
"Quantum physics suggests the existence of many possible futures for each moment of our lives. Each future lies in a state of rest until it is awakened by choices we make in the present."

05.23.08 | It all begins with you.
"If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him." Ralph Waldo Emerson

10.02.07 | Out beyond ideas.....
"Out beyond ideas of right doing and wrong doing there is a field. I'll meet you there."
Rumi

10.01.07 | Changing Consciousness
"Indeed, for both rich and the poor, life is dominated by an ever growing current of problems, most of which seem to have no real and lasting solution. Clearly we have not touched the deeper causes of our troubles. It is the main point of this book that the ultimate source of all the problems is in thought itself, the very thing of which our civilization is most proud, and therefore the one thing that is "hidden" because of our failure seriously to engage with its actual working in our own individual lives and in the life of society."

David Bohm and Mark Edwards-'Changing Consciousness'

06.12.07 | limitations and potential
"It is never too late to who you might have been."
George Eliot

05.29.07 | Are you present right now?
"The more faithfully you listen to the voice within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside."
Dag Hammarskjold, former UN secretary-general

'Leading Through Conflict, How Successful Leaders Transform Differences into Opportunities' by Mark Gerzon

05.29.07 | Stay calm in a crazed world.
"With all this talk about connectivity, what about connectivity to ourselves? Are we becoming so connected to everybody else that we are never where we actually are?
When we are at the beach we are on the cell phone, so are we really there? When we are walking down the street we are on the cell phone, so are we really there? Have we given up the possibility of being present in the face of the accelerating pace of life and the infinite possibilities for instant connection?
What about calling ourselves up for a change, checking in and seeing what we are up to? What about just being in touch with how we are feeling, even in those moments when we may be feeling numb, or overwhelmed, or bored, or disjointed, or anxious, or depressed, or needing to get one more thing done?"
Jon Kabat-Zinn