Strategies For Managing Change

The Inner Weight of Shame - Sustained By Attentional Fixation

Tue, 20 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0500

A Mind That Is Continuously Engaged In Self-Surveillance. Shame is one of the heaviest inner burdens a human being can carry. It does not announce itself loudly or demand attention through drama. Instead, it settles quietly into your mind, reshaping how you see yourself, relate to others, and interpret your own inner life. The inner weight of shame is not simply emotional pain; it is a persistent sense of being diminished, exposed, or fundamentally flawed. Using the Zen Tools framework of thought-awareness, this article offers a way of understanding shame that neither minimises it nor medicalises it. Our aim is not to eradicate shame, but to loosen its grip by changing how your mind relates to it - restoring perspective, space, and agency where shame has quietly narrowed them.

Master The Season You Are In - The Key to Fulfilling Your Purpose

Fri, 9 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0500

To fulfil your purpose, you must first master the season you are in. One of the biggest mistakes you can make in life is focusing all your energy on the next season instead of learning to master the season you are in. We tell ourselves life will make sense when things change - when we have more time, more money, or more certainty. But the fulfilment of your purpose doesn’t begin in the next chapter. It is being shaped in this one. Most people don’t have a “life problem.” They have a seasonal misalignment problem. What season are you in right now?

Manifestation Without Magic: A Practical Model

Tue, 16 Dec 2025 08:22:19 -0500

Manifestation without magic is not a softer or more intellectual version of popular manifestation culture. It is a different model altogether. Popular manifestation teachings tend to frame reality as something that responds directly to thoughts, emotions, or vibrational states. They encourage constant internal monitoring - belief, mood, visualisation - as though these are levers that move the world. When results appear, the model feels confirmed. When they do not, the explanation quietly turns inward: insufficient belief, hidden resistance, misalignment. Manifestation without magic takes a cleaner stance and it rarely feels dramatic. It feels calm, grounded, and quietly effective. That is not superstition. It is clarity in action. Here's how to apply it.

The Wise Advocate - Helping You Achieve The Very Best Outcome

Tue, 5 Aug 2025 08:55:56 -0400

The focus of your attention in critical moments of choice either builds or restricts your capacity for achieving the best outcome. When we talk of 'The Wise Advocate' its easy to think of the consigliere in 'The Godfather' or 'The Sopranos' or similar dramas based around mafia bosses. In fact we all have such a counsellor - but with a more benign intent - and it is an aspect of our attentive mind. This is a mental facility that has been known about and used by wise leaders and a minority of lay people throughout history. There is no "fluff" here, this has a solid scientifically verifiable neurological foundation. This is very real and it is a life changer! The Wise Advocate is the voice within you that can help you make the best decisions about all the things you care about: your relationships, family, community, workplace, in fact any significant area of your life. Here's how to activate and engage with that voice.

Dealing With Setbacks - 5 Questions To Help You Face Discomfort

Wed, 11 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0400

How To Counter The Cognitive Shock Of A Setback. Setbacks challenge your instinctual desire for control and comfort, making it unnatural to respond with calm or acceptance. The reason for these instinct driven responses is "cognitive shock" which occurs as your conceptual, thinking brain tends to stop working and you just can’t think clearly. During cognitive shock, your “old” brain, which is based on survival and defense, takes over, and these emotions can cloud judgment and intensify your perceptions of the setback. So when your clarity becomes obscured by the dark and swirling energy of emotional distress, it is helpful to have some concise reminders to bring you back to the solution. Here are 5 questions to help you face discomfort and build your resilience.

Why Praxis Is The Key To Living A Successful And Stress Free Life

Wed, 21 May 2025 00:00:00 -0400

Praxis Is The Process Of Taking Informed Action To take informed action you need to be prepared with information, knowledge, education and insight. Informed action is objective action that: - Seeks to eliminate all hijacking of your brain from inherent cognitive bias and all other known cognitive distortions.
- Disregards social media based popular ideology.
- Avoids partial truth and always tries to understand the whole picture based on all known data.
So to assist you in the process, here is my quick guide to helping you focus on and apply praxis to Zen Tools material.

The Power Of Working With The Front Line

Sun, 4 May 2025 00:00:00 -0400

How To Exercise Influence Without Authority In Complex Systems I first discovered the power of working with the frontline when I was working as a business troubleshooter on large projects, programmes and business units that were failing. The first step in these situations was to undertake a quick diagnosis to find out the root cause of the issues and to gain early understanding of the potential solutions. Initially the client would want me to talk to a cross section of senior management which of course I did, and then I would always ask to meet and spend time with the people at the frontline. That is to say the people who actually did the work! The people at the frontline always know what the issues are and the solutions. Here are 3 scenarios for benefiting from the power of working with the frontline.

Dealing With Distraction - Learning How To Live With Your "Attention Autopilot"

Wed, 16 Apr 2025 05:35:00 -0400

Living With Your Attention Autopilot The good news about your Attention Autopilot is that it will keep you safe. It is continuously scanning your immediate environment for threats. The bad news is that it is also programmed to look out for potentially interesting things to bring to your attention. The worse news is that it doesn't just scan your external environment it also scans your internal thought stream... Like a curious child, your Attention Autopilot will be continuously throwing stuff at you saying: "Hey look at this!" It's good at spotting threats but indiscriminate in what it thinks is "interesting". You can't stop it. It is what is and it does what it does. As the adult in your relationship with your Attention Autopilot, its your responsibilty to train it to leave you alone when you're busy.

The Time Of Your Life - Recognising Moments Of Alignment For Action

Wed, 9 Apr 2025 05:35:45 -0400

How will you recognise your moment of alignment for action? In this article I want to look at our relationship with time and in the context of the two main themes of this site, firstly as a thinking skill and secondly from a mindfulness perspective. I want to side-step the potential rabbit holes of the metaphysical and philosophical speculations that surround this subject and to focus on some practical suggestions for how you can improve your relationship with time and thus improve your health, wealth and happiness. Here are some practical action points:

The Metagame Approach to Second Order Thinking - 5 Guiding Principles

Mon, 17 Feb 2025 04:39:52 -0500

How To Position Yourself For Survival & Success In A Complex Environment We treat life as though it is a complicated system, and our thinking skills and mental models are focused on understanding its moving parts in the belief that this will increase our control of the outcomes of our decisions and actions. But unfortunately this is an illusion. Why? Life is a complex system that functions within totally different parameters, so whilst we may gain a measure of control it is limited, and ultimately we set ourselves up for failure. The metagame approach to second order thinking combines two sets of thinking skills that address the unpredictability of modern life within a complex system. The purpose of this article is to offer some guiding principles that will position you to survive and thrive in this complex environment.

Outcome Over Optics - Long Game Outcomes Over Short-Term Ego Gains

Sat, 1 Feb 2025 09:45:02 -0500

The Day I Learned To Focus On Outcome Over Optics I have never forgotten the day I learned to focus on outcomes over optics and figured out a very simple way of saving myself several hundred thousand dollars. At that time it was standard business practice to buy a new car every one to two years. The reason for this was all about optics, put bluntly, ego and status. If you could afford to change your car frequently you were signalling that you were doing well and making money. But this vanity came at a huge cost. Here's how I had my "light bulb" moment and saved myself a fortune whilst maintaining the optics at a vastly reduced cost and optimising the outcome that I wanted with a long lasting high quality car. Since then, I have applied this strategy to other areas of my life and have saved huge amounts of money. Here's how it works:

The ETTO Principle - Why Near Enough Can Be Good Enough

Mon, 20 Jan 2025 05:03:02 -0500

How To Balance the Efficiency-Thoroughness Trade Off The ETTO Principle describes the inherent trade-off between working efficiently and working thoroughly. This trade-off is something that affects us all both in our working lives and also in our personal lives. We are all under pressure to perform and to deliver. Expectations are high in an environment of ever-increasing competition. Here are two practical tools that you can use to manage this trade-off and that will help reduce your stress and feelings of overwhelm.

Master The Art Of Drawing The Bow

Fri, 20 Dec 2024 00:00:00 -0500

Focus On Process Not Outcome In so many areas of our lives, we focus on the outcome, not the process that we follow to achieve it. In the western world, we are conditioned to pay less attention to how we hold and draw the bow and instead we focus on hitting the bullseye. You can’t control where the arrow lands but you can master the art of drawing the bow. Are you focusing on what truly matters?

Curiosity Skilled The Cat - Optimize For Interesting

Mon, 2 Dec 2024 00:00:00 -0500

Curiosity Fuels Excellence The old adage, “Curiosity killed the cat,” warns of the dangers of venturing too far into the unknown. But what if we reimagine it not as a risk but as a gateway to developing critical thinking and problem-solving skills? By embracing the phrase “Curiosity skilled the cat,” we shift the narrative, recognizing it as the foundation for how to think effectively. Here's how to optimize your thinking skills by exercising your curiosity into things that interest you.

Let Stillness Speak - Living Within A Complex System

Sun, 17 Nov 2024 04:50:46 -0500

To let stlllness speak is to learn it's first major lesson: you are not your thoughts. To let stillness speak is about stepping back from the constant chatter of your mind and allowing a deeper, quieter presence to communicate. We spend our entire life imprisoned within the confines of our own thoughts. We are quite literally lost in thought. To let stillness speak is not about some woolly, fuzzy, feel-good vibe. This is about accessing a consciousness that lies deep within you - far deeper than thought.

Understanding Complex Systems Thinking - It's Not Complicated

Tue, 24 Sep 2024 00:00:00 -0400

Understanding, and being able to work with, complexity is an important thinking skill. We are all working with complex systems, and we do so every day. The biggest one is life itself. We automatically lean towards a fairly mechanistic view of life that sees life as a complicated system, and this in turns leads us to having expectations based on our perception of how things will work out. Inevitably our expectations are frequently unfulfilled and we get frustrated and anxious. We treat life as though it is a complicated system, whereas in reality life is a complex system, and so we set ourselves up for failure.

Strategies For Managing Change - Processes That Work For People

Sun, 15 Sep 2024 01:00:00 -0400

The Art & Science Of Avoiding Unintended Consequences Strategies For Managing Change is all about a structured approach to change management that ensures that organizational changes are smoothly implemented, and that the lasting benefits of change are achieved with no unintended consequences. This is why we refer to the art and the science of change management. Change management is about process - but it's also about people. Our philosophy is about "processes that work for people"! This involves the discipline of seeing wholes - a framework for seeing interrelationships rather than things, for seeing ‘patterns of change’ rather than ‘static snapshots.

Stay On The Bus - When To Keep On Going

Fri, 6 Sep 2024 11:10:38 -0400

The Helsinki Bus Station Theory Have you ever started a new project, initiative or role with a big vision and a determination to make a difference? Initially you were full of enthusiasm and highly motivated to break new ground. Yet after a while you get discouraged as you realise that what you thought was your own special individual approach is very similar to the efforts of many other people. Then it gets really tough as you find that what you thought was your own unique journey is identical to the work of thousands of others. The key to succeeding in any long term creative activity lies in understanding the operations of Helsinki’s main bus station!

How to Get What You Value by Changing What You Measure

Tue, 20 Aug 2024 00:00:00 -0400

Give Up Control & Gain Influence To Get What You Want The metrics we choose to focus on can significantly shape our outcomes, sometimes in ways we don't intend. The challenge is to make sure that you are measuring the right things and with the right metrics. The bigger challenge is that those things that create the value are often hidden or invisible. If you do not understand, or can not see, the things that are creating the value you will struggle to measure them. The purpose of this article is to draw attention to this distinction and to offer some practical suggestions as to how you can identify and monitor these critical intangibles.

How to Become A Master At Overcoming Hard Moments

Tue, 30 Jul 2024 04:10:26 -0400

"The best in the world are not the best because they win every point. It's because they lose again and again and have learned how to deal with it." This quote from Roger Federer has got a lot of coverage in social media and deservedly so. I am not very interested in tennis, but I have always taken great pleasure in watching him play in major tournaments. In common with each of the top players he had a remarkable capacity to focus on the shot in play and to put everything into that shot. Then, regardless of the outcome of that shot, he put it behind him and played the next shot as if his life depended on it. To become a master at overcoming hard moments when dealing with specific tasks in your working life and in your personal life you need to learn these basic skills:

Drop The Story - Deal With Your Demons and Transform Your Experience

Wed, 24 Jul 2024 00:00:00 -0400

Are you living your life from the stories you tell yourself? Learning how to drop the story and deal with that voice in your head can be a game changer. When you can do this you will have a powerful tool for breaking free from self-imposed limitations, improving performance in all areas of your life, and increasing your overall well-being. In this article I show you how and why you have these thoughts and to give you the tools to drop the story that is holding you back and making your life a misery.

Standing In The Gap Between No Longer And Not Yet

Tue, 23 Jul 2024 06:42:29 -0400

Standing In The Gap In Conditions Of Imposed Change. This is about imposed change and surviving a dire and desperate situation where you are stuck in a difficult or seemingly impossible set of circumstances and it just goes on and on and there is no end in sight... No-one would chose to live like this but millions of us do and are living in conditions of change that are imposed upon us. We have hope, even if only a little, the flame still flickers for a brighter better future. We stand in the gap between no longer and not yet. But how?

Preparing The Ground - For Things You Can Not See

Wed, 12 Jun 2024 00:00:00 -0400

We plough the fields and scatter the good seed on the ground. The phrase "preparing the ground" is a metaphor for making the necessary preparations to create the favourable conditions for something to happen or succeed. The business as usual approach tends to focus on tangible things, things you can see, but these basic principles for preparing the ground can also be applied to things you can not see. Things such as how to:

Thrive in unforeseen chaos, disorder and disaster.
Position yourself to identify and exploit unseen opportunities.
Stand in the gap between the reality you experience now and a future reality you may aspire to.
Play the long game.

Here is a brief overview of each of these situations together with access to extensive resources for preparing the ground in each of these scenarios...

Easing The Weight Of Expectation

Tue, 11 Jun 2024 05:06:00 -0400

Don’t you often feel like you are carrying the weight of the world on your back? Our start point is understanding that the ego has a very clear idea of how things ought to be, and its intention and expectation is inextricably linked to circumstance. It has no sense of interconnection and the bigger picture. As a result of this we favour the visible, the embedded, the personal, the narrated, and the tangible; we scorn the abstract. When reality doesn’t match that expectation the result is frustration and pain. Here are some practical guidelines for easing the weight of your own expectations.

The Power Of Patience - Why You Need The World's Toughest Quality

Mon, 10 Jun 2024 00:00:00 -0400

Nothing in the world can take the place of patience. Patience and persistence are omnipotent. In everyday life, patience is often overshadowed by the desire for immediate results. We live in an era of instant gratification, we want microwave results where waiting even a few seconds for a webpage to load can feel like an eternity. From a bigger picture perspective and beyond the annoyance of everyday frustrations, the power of patience in difficult circumstances is that it fosters resilience in the face of adversity which allows us to weather setbacks and failures without losing sight of our objectives. Patient people are resilient people who persist in their efforts. Here's how to develop the power of patience.

Why You Should Embrace Anomalies - The Incredible Value Of Disconfirming Evidence

Sun, 9 Jun 2024 05:04:47 -0400

Is Your Desire To Be Right Greater Than Your Desire To Have Been Right? An anomaly is a deviation from what is expected or commonly regarded as the norm. It often appears as an unexpected observation that defies conventional wisdom or established theories. It is frequently regarded as an abberation, a nuisance or an inconvenient interruption to a long cherished assumption. There are two fundamental reasons why you should embrace anomalies, and they are both related to your long term health wealth and happiness: [1] The identification of new and unrecognised opportunities. [2] The avoidance of ignored risk and disaster. Please read on to find how to do this...

Inversion - The Power Of Opposite Thinking

Tue, 30 Jan 2024 06:59:14 -0500

How To Avoid The Unwanted Outcome. The power of opposite thinking, also known as inversion, lies in its ability to stimulate creativity, enhance problem-solving, and provide a fresh perspective on challenges. It is especially useful when launching a new initiative or attempting to resolve a difficult problem. Instead of focusing on how to achieve a desired outcome, you consider the opposite – how to avoid the undesired outcome. Here's how to do it:

How To Make Better Decisions - By Avoiding The Narrative Trap

Tue, 7 Nov 2023 05:05:18 -0500

To Understand The Truth We Have To See The Whole Picture. One of the best ways to make better decisions is to have a deeper understanding of the many things that might stop that happening. To understand the truth we have to look at all the known facts, and see the whole picture which is often not as binary as presented. In this article we are going to focus on another often overlooked factor, and that is the stories that we tell ourselves, the narratives that we weave, and to look closely at how we can avoid what is referred to as the narrative fallacy.

Who Is In Charge Of Your Brain?

Wed, 23 Aug 2023 04:46:29 -0400

How Not To Be Stupid. Who is in charge of your brain? This is not a silly questions. It matters because the outcomes that you experience in your life are determined by how you respond to the events that impact you. The quality of your responses are shaped by how effectively you think, and this is a learned skill. Your ability to think effectively, your responses, and the long term impact of the choices that you make can have a major effect on your health, wealth and happiness. So let's take a look inside your skull and see if we can figure out who is in charge of your brain and what that means.

Change Questions - Unlock The Secrets Of Sustainable Organizational Change

Sun, 6 Aug 2023 08:26:31 -0400

No two organizational change efforts are the same, so why should your approach be? Change Questions unlocks the secrets of sustainable organizational change by showing you how to ask then implement a set of vital business questions in five critical areas. This method produces a customized approach for change that lasts. Lynn Kelley and John Shook offer practical examples from their experiences as transformative leaders. They candidly describe what to do in tough, real world business situations in each chapter based on their experiences. They share lessons learned that will benefit any organization that is ready to embrace change.

The Metagame Approach To Life

Sun, 16 Jul 2023 04:48:44 -0400

How To Achieve Your Biggest Objectives. The metagame approach to life is all about winning and achieving your biggest objectives by: - Understanding the bigger picture
- Being better by doing things differently
- Making moves that others find hard to imitate or counter
- Redefining the game on your terms and creating your own path to success

The metagame approach to life can be used in various different contexts which may include your career, your business, your education and personal development and even your personal relationships. This is not about abstract ideas and concepts, this is about actions. Here are 3 strategies for applying the metagame approach to life.

Reframing History - Deconstruction And Discussion Not Destruction

Thu, 15 Jun 2023 10:06:08 -0400

History is always about context, not imposing our own moral values on the past. For those of us fortunate enough to live within western democracies, we are living in an age where a vociferous and intolerant minority have an uneasy relationship with their own country's history over the past 300 years. This has led to what has been framed as the ‘culture wars’ that are being actively pursued in our media, public spaces, museums, universities, schools, civil services, local government, business corporations and all other public institutions. This vociferous and intolerant minority claim that ‘facing up’ to a past which they present as overwhelmingly and permanently shameful is the route to "a more inclusive future". But is it?

Transform Your Team's Culture with This One Mindset Shift

Thu, 15 Jun 2023 10:03:30 -0400

Leaders know that culture is crucial for innovation, employee attraction, and retention but often struggle to go beyond promises and platitudes to create and sustain a culture of innovation. In this article, I’ll share a personal story of an innovation culture in action and the behaviors and habits that built a culture that built a billion-dollar brand.

The ABCs of Innovation: How Companies Become World-Changing Innovators

Thu, 15 Jun 2023 10:03:30 -0400

Nike. P&G. Amazon. When you hear these three names, you immediately think “Innovation.” You probably also think, “but that’s not us.” But it can be if you, too, use the Innovation ABCs - Architecture to ignite and accelerate innovation, leadership Behaviors that enable it to thrive, and Culture that transforms innovation into how you do business. Readers will learn how to assess their company’s ABCs and get practical “Do Now” actions that will net immediate results.

Your Success is Killing Innovation (Here’s How to Change That)

Thu, 15 Jun 2023 10:03:30 -0400

When business is good, executives are comfortable with the status quo, confident that nothing major will go wrong, and hesitant to make big changes. After all, if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. But what happens when the economy slows, the business declines, competitors enter, new technologies emerge, or the world suddenly changes? Executives scramble to “innovate,” spinning up efforts that take time and resources to produce results. Two things companies in duress rarely have. Readers will learn how to lead innovation in good times and bad, so they always get results.

What Is Truth - How To Tell A Partial Truth From The Whole Truth?

Wed, 3 May 2023 04:45:32 -0400

How the truth and nothing but the truth is often not the whole truth. My great aunty Flo broke her arm and died. It is true that she broke her arm in 1923. It is also true that she died in 1949. But there is no cause and effect relationship between these 2 events. The only connection between these events is that they appear in the same sentence. That is a simple illustration of how the acccurate and honest reporting of two truths is not the whole truth. To understand the whole truth we have to look at all the known and established facts and see the whole picture, which is often not as binary as it is often presented. Anything less than this is a partial truth.

The Gap And The Gain - How Your Brain Sabotages Your Happiness

Thu, 16 Feb 2023 09:11:41 -0500

How Your Lizard Brain Sabotages Your Happiness We are hardwired to measure our progress in any and all areas of life where we have goals and aspirations. We can't not do it. But what we measure and how we measure matters because our default progress measurement setting leads to self sabotage and results in deep unhappiness and dissatisfaction with our lives.

Situational Communication - Different Strokes For Different Folks

Fri, 3 Feb 2023 07:29:38 -0500

Situational communication is about taking account of 3 often ignored factors about the other person. You are a situational communicator when you recognise that effective communication is not an event but a process. This process is about understanding the other person's past experience, their competence and the way they behave in relation to whatever it is you want to accomplish, and then adopting the appropriate type of communication.

How To Influence Without Authority - 6 Key Tips

Fri, 20 Jan 2023 09:48:58 -0500

The secret to how to influence without authority is that you get what you really want by giving other people what they really want. We live in an interconnected world and knowing how to influence without authority is an increasingly important communictation skill. The fundamental principle of how to influence without authority is mirrored reciprocation whereby you get what you really want by giving other people what they really want. This goes beyond the transactional and is about building a "win-win" that addresses our deepest needs as human beings.

Change Questions To Change Your Outcomes

Sun, 15 Jan 2023 06:47:46 -0500

Asking The Right Questions Is Critical For A Successful Change. Every time we initiate a significant change - whether in our personal life or in an organisation - we will most likely over-estimate our chances of a successful outcome and under-estimate the likelihood that things will not work out as we had planned. This article is part of a series on the art of persuasion, communication and change based on my 45 years in business, and I going to share with you a framework of questions that will enable you to successfully handle any significant change.

Group Culture - The Invisible Software That Rules Your Life

Sun, 1 Jan 2023 07:08:43 -0500

Group culture is: "How we do things round here.". We like to see ourselves as free agents making our own choices and living authentically but the reality is that The Matrix has many layers and we are unaware that we are more enmeshed and ensnared than we realise. We are, to a very large extent, governed by our conditioning and our hardwired cognitive biases. Group culture is another one of those things that also has a very powerful influence on our thought processes, decisions and behaviours. Here's how group culture affects you and how you can take advantage of it.

Why Getting From A to B Is Not Aways A Straight Line

Sun, 11 Dec 2022 06:15:45 -0500

In circumstances of significant change, the progress from A to B will not be in a straight line. We run our lives largely on auto-pilot. In most circumstances your experience of getting from A to B is relatively smooth and seemless, and when it isn't you have established ways and means of overcoming the bumps and obstructions. But when getting from A to B involves making significant changes such as (a) doing something new that will change the existing modus operandi; or (b) launching a major initiative or new venture, the progress from A to B will not be in a straight line. For you as an individual or an organisation it is critical that you apply the "business as usual" test.

The Art Of Persuasion Planning For Success - Here's How To Do It!

Thu, 8 Dec 2022 06:24:47 -0500

To be successful in the art of persuasion you must ensure that certain things happen. To be successful in the art of persuasion you must establish a framework of what has to happen to get you to that successful buyin to your proposal by the other person. Circumstances will vary enormously. Persuading a friend to bring their family and join with yours on an Airbnb holiday is one thing and less complex than persuading the leader of a special interest group or a public institution to commit to a programme of activity or to adopt a policy. The process outlined here can be scaled up or simplified as the circumstances require.

The Art Of Persuasion Advanced Communication Skills - Gaining Buyin

Thu, 1 Dec 2022 06:04:37 -0500

Create The Environment Where They Want To Buyin to Your Proposal In order to build the win-win you have to uncover what it is that the other person really wants or needs, and to do that you have to ask questions. There are a series of steps you need to go through, which make the other person feel comfortable with you and see the purpose in your questions. In this article we are focused on advanced communication skills that will help you achieve this.

The Art Of Persuasion The One Fundamental Principle

Sun, 20 Nov 2022 05:20:54 -0500

The art of persuasion is based on the simple idea that you get what you want by enabling the other party to get what they want. Being a nice friendly person with good inter-personal skills may be a good start but it is not enough. For this to happen you, as the persuader, need to exercise these skills that will enable this to happen.

Why Understanding Ergodicity Is Critical To Your Long Term Survival

Fri, 21 Oct 2022 14:37:26 -0400

How Not To Be Fooled By Randomness. Ergodicity is an ugly word from the world of mathematics. It is an umbrella term for two sets of conditions of probability and outcome. These two conditions form the basis of a lie that you have been sold by governments, economists and investment "advisors" for the past 150 years. What may seem to be a dry and boring exercise in semantics and mathematical fancy footwork very rapidly morphs into: [1] A potent expose of how we have been misled and ripped off by the so called experts, and then offers [2] An explanation of how to side step these lies and fallacies and position yourself for survival and success.

How To Benefit From the Unseen Margins - 5 Key Tips For Success

Thu, 6 Oct 2022 04:36:01 -0400

These Unseen Margins Can Have A Very Dramatic Impact On Your Life. To understand how to benefit from the unseen margins we need to start by understanding what they are and where we find them. In this article I am going to explain: # What Unseen Margin Is And How To Measure It

# Where To Find Unseen Margin In An Environment Of Complexity

# 5 Key Tips To Benefit From Unseen Margin

# Guiding Principles To Benefit From Unseen Margin

Intuition & Anxiety - Are There Angels Or Devils Calling Here?

Tue, 26 Jul 2022 11:24:13 -0400

How To Tell The Difference Between Intuition and Anxiety. How do you know whether the voice of your intuition is real or just the product of your inner anxiety? We all struggle with these inner voices as we try to work out whether it is the inner devils of our insecurities and anxieties that are talking, or whether we are hearing the voices of the better angels of our nature offering intuitive guidance. Here's how to tell whether you are hearing the voice of intuition or the voice of anxiety.

The Confident Mind - 4 Keys To Peak Performance

Fri, 24 Jun 2022 07:00:52 -0400

Peak Performance Is Meditation In Motion. Peak performance is grounded in the Tao practise of Wu Wei which means "doing with out doing". This is all about how you take action by being so immersed in profound concentration on what you are doing that you are "in the zone". The foundation for achieving this state requires you to have achieved unconscious competence in exercising the required skills to undertake the required tasks and activities. i.e. to function on auto-pilot. Here are the 4 keys to building the confident mind:

The Stockdale Paradox

Mon, 13 Jun 2022 08:24:33 -0400

How To Deal With The Attrition Factor. The Stockdale Paradox is named after the late James Stockdale, former vice presidential candidate, naval commander and prisoner of war during the American-Vietnam war. It became well known having been featured in author and business guru Jim Collins’ book “Good To Great” following extensive interviews between Collins and Stockdale exploring how Stockdale survived 8 years of imprisonment and torture. Collins’ specific focus was to identify the principles that underpinned Stockdale’s survival and emergence at the end of the war as not only unbroken but as source of practical inspiration.

5 Tips For Developing A Growth Mindset

Wed, 25 May 2022 00:00:00 -0400

How To Be There When Preparation Meets Opportunity. The growth mindset holds the core belief that your intelligence and personality is something you can develop and that you can expand and grow. The passion for stretching yourself and sticking to it, even (or especially) when it’s not going well, is the hallmark of the growth mindset. This is the mindset that allows you to thrive during some of the most challenging times in your life.

This Too Shall Pass

Sun, 22 May 2022 06:19:04 -0400

The Blessing And The Curse Of Impermanence. There is a story of a king who sought wisdom. Eventually he heard of a man living in a remote part of the kingdom who had a reputation for great wisdom. The king sent for this man and had him brought to court, and the king offered the man a great reward if he would share the secret to his wisdom. The man agreed and departed from the king’s presence. He returned several weeks later and presented the king with a ring. The wise man counselled the king: “Wear that ring that at all times and look at it frequently, and regardless of whether you are experiencing good fortune or adversity remind yourself that this too will pass…”

Lost, Stuck & Going Round In Circles?

Thu, 19 May 2022 03:46:06 -0400

Are You Lost In Transition? To be in an alien North African city, late in the evening, in the dark, completely lost in transition from the main market square back to the obscure location of our Riad, with no tools for navigation, and finding it impossible to communicate with the locals, was frightening. That experience of being lost in transition in the Medina, in Marrakesh, illustrates the locational disorientation we can experience when we experience an unexpected change in circumstances, and especially a change that is imposed upon and that leads to hard times. Transition is a journey - a psychological and emotional journey - and here's how to cope with it.