Tag: TheThreePrinciples
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Practical & Profound Change
by Christian McNeill This morning I attended an excellent business event in Glasgow, The Business Journey. 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 two minute…
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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…
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What’s the Point of Networking?
My thoughts on this question – and there are as many viewpoints as there are networkers – are that networking can provide support, learning and connection for business owners, along with occasional opportunities for collaboration. The 2 networks I currently belong to have been great for this. What seems to work less well, I have…
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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…
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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…
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It’s Never Too Late for a Happy Life
Last night I attended a talk on ‘Understanding Genetics’ by Kat Arney and Oliver James. Despite the excellent presentations, I suspect the majority of the audience left only with the understanding that genes are very, very complex. And almost certainly beyond their grasp. I was actually more interested in listening to Oliver James, a psychologist…
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Where is Anxiety Created?
Today on Facebook a friend posted a tip on what to do if you experience an anxiety attack: look around, find things you can see, hear, touch etc. The tip called it, ‘grounding’. A commenter noted, ‘This is called mindfulness’. Without detracting from the usefulness of the advice, my thought was that this tip also…
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Accessing The Answers Within You
Some form of ‘All the answers are within you,’ was a mantra I had often heard over my many years of searching. Yet I had no idea how to access those answers. It seemed like many people had a much better handle on life than I did. Then one day, in a very ordinary, concrete…
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Being Less Toxic
Recently a dear friend paid me a lovely compliment. It was along the lines of, ‘You are so lacking in bitterness.’ We had been talking about the struggles, ‘injustices’ and loneliness I had experienced as a single parent in the early years post separation. I observed that, because I didn’t know then what I know…
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The Bearable Lightness of Being
Each of us has a natural lightness of being which is sufficiently buoyant to balance the things which come our way. What can tip our experience into unbearable is our own Thinking about these events. Sometimes consciously, but more often innocently, unconsciously and automatically, we entertain habits of thinking which turn our experience of events…
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