John Cyr, is a retired workforce development trainer and motivational consultant who publishes articles and editorials under the pen-name Cyreous. He advocates transformative learning as the key learning method for trainers and educators and shares this information at http://www.cyreousquotes.com.
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"Only he who can see the invisible can do the impossible." - Frank Gaines When I was young I accomplished an amazing feat. I learned how to play the guitar. By the time I was 17 I played in a band with a group of musicians and music became more challenging...
The best side to learn leadership from is not the management side, but the employee side of the manager/employee relationship; for by being forced-fed an education about management from management, you often learn the wrong tenets and greed driven philosophy other detached managers want you to know, whereas learning leadership...
"I find that the harder I work the more luck I seem to have." - Thomas Jefferson I have often heard the question, "Do you believe in luck?" I do actually, but I prefer to call it serendipity; for two reasons. 1) Since so many do not know the meaning of the...
Motivational materials usually have to be read with some degree of circumspect. Even as a coach and motivational trainer, I have caught myself saying things in my exuberance that later needed to be modified. Take our quote today which comes to us from the Reverend Robert Schuler. I...
I was rummaging through a bunch of quotes all at the same time when this brilliant thought came to me that there are good ideas inside of ideas that we often miss for one reason or another. It might be we are focused only on one thing and we can't...
Here is a suggestion for a game to play at your next party. Write down this question on a piece of paper and pass it around. Make sure that everyone gets a chance to answer it. The question is, "How important is "belief" to you? I wonder what kind of...
My oldest son and I watched a movie from his great collection "Robin Hood Prince of Thieves." There is a great quote in the movie which I was eager to use this week where Kevin Costner playing Robin Hood says, "Nobility is not a birth-right; it is defined by one's...
There are a lot of people who will try to make you believe that you can be in total control of your life. Many of these seemingly well-adjusted perfectionists seem to glide through life untouched by human tragedy in their own lives. Unfortunately their time for cruelty comes sooner or...

