Category: Burnout

  • No More Burnout

    No More Burnout

    At the point of writing there is a tweet trending, ‘Burnout is Real’. And my thought is, yes and no. Perhaps it would be more accurate to say, Burnout is Optional. It’s something I have experienced. The most extreme example was one summer about 10 years ago. Juggling patchy summer childcare and a caseload of…

  • Practical & Profound Change

    Practical & Profound Change

    This morning I attended an excellent business event in Glasgow. As well as useful presentations – on the theme of maximising the value of the business – there was plenty of time for networking. And I had the usual challenge of explaining what I do in a 2 minute soundbite. In all honesty it’s something…

  • The Busy Mind

    The Busy Mind

    Currently I have a couple of clients who are plagued by racing minds. Both are intellectuals and grasp the truth of the concept that our feelings come from thought. In other words they get that their experience is being created from within, rather than from external circumstances. For each of them this just adds another…

  • The Epidemic of Misunderstanding

    The Epidemic of Misunderstanding

    After more than 2 decades of trainings and working with clients, I have come to see that is a single, yet important misunderstanding at the root of many of today’s chronic problems. These include addiction, obesity, stress, anxiety relationship breakdown and even depression. That misunderstanding is the false belief that our circumstances – other people, our…

  • Subtracting Overwhelm from your experience

    Subtracting Overwhelm from your experience

      The first thing that struck me when I came across the Three Principles Paradigm some years ago, was the consistency of very positive outcomes. From community prevention to business success to recovery from burnout, statistics of 75% improvement or more were the norm not the exception. I’d spent 30 years working as a lawyer…