Ken Oakley

Executive coach and trainer helping leaders, managers and solo entrepreneurs thrive. Instructor for CTI, Executive Coach & Facilitator for BTS. Love your work!

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Allowing our true Spirit to have the natural balance of the full range of our masculine & feminine within requires a shift in consciousness. When we allow our true Spirit to manifest itself, we are acting on all that we know that lies within us. Marilyn J. Manson; pic Cloé Gérard

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“Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.”
- Albert Camus – French philosopher, author, and journalist
Happy 250th Birthday, America!

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"Don't think about the major issues. You do what you can about the misery in front of you. You add your light to the sum of all light."
- Character Billy Kwan in the 1970s television series The Year of Living Dangerously

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A moment of self compassion can change your entire day. A string of such moments can change the course of your life. 
- Christopher K Germer
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The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.  - Anna Quindlen
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I now express health, prosperity, happiness and peace of mind. 
- Louise Hay - Power Thought Cards
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To begin by always thinking of love as an action rather than a feeling is one way in which anyone using the word in this manner automatically assumes accountability and responsibility. 
- Bell Hooks
(In the Gifts of Imperfection by Brené Brown)

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"The reason you sometimes find life hard, people difficult, or circumstances challenging is because in each of those areas, you signed up for the advanced course. Good on you!"
Mike Dooley's Notes from the Universe

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Dadi Janki -
"As you do, so you become. Every action that you perform is recorded in you, the soul. These imprints ultimately mold your character and destiny. When you understand this principle, you will pay more attention to bringing your best to everything you do."

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In nature, woman is healed from her weary quest in the arms of Gaia, the original mother. 
- Maureen Murdock, The Heroine's Journey
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“There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature - the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.”
Rachel Carson, The Sense of Wonder

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"Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.”
– Anne Lamott.

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A miracle happened: another day of life. - Paulo Coelho

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Victor E Frankl, Austrian neurologist and psychologist as well as a holocaust survivor said, "Everything could be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way."

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Paulo Coelho said, "If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine, it is lethal."

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Hippocrates stated "it is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has."

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"...In the end, as a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened."
- Kazuo Ishiguro

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"Breath is the bridge that connects life to consciousness, which unites your body to your thoughts. Whenever your mind becomes scattered, use your breath as the means to take hold of your mind again." - Thich Nhat Hanh

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They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world. Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for. - Fortune Cookie

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"Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for
it and knowledge can raise men to the divine."
- Ludwig van Beethoven