Presence-Based Coaching

CHAPTER 6

Mind

Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

 

Chinese proverb

 

Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.

 

Mark Twain

 

 

 

I BEGIN WITH MIND FOR SEVER AL REASONS. IT IS THE MOST FAMILIAR to me and the easiest place, given our cultural bias in the Western world, to plug into. As the son, grandson, nephew, and cousin of physicists, I presumed that the mind was the only thing that mattered. It’s been through many years of self-exploration, and coming to understand better how humans really change, that I’ve ...