Learning From Elon Musk and Ronaldo
I guess because of their influence and fame their mistakes will make the news, while yours and mine won’t.
Tag: Performance
The Calm Warrior Mind Vs. The Worrier Mind
It’s important to note that it has been proven that the placebo effect (the effect of believed thoughts on the body) is very much a real thing.
Focus On What To Stop Doing
Starts are important but Stops are often an easy way to make dramatic improvements.
The REAL Energy business
“I discovered that people are not really afraid of dying; they’re afraid of not ever having lived, not ever having deeply considered their life’s higher purpose, and not ever having stepped into that purpose and at least tried to make a difference in this world.” – Joseph Jaworski
Are You Like A Tank Or A Yacht?
“You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop” – Rumi
What’s Inside You
What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies inside us.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
This is one of my favourite quotes.
The message contained within the words resonate at a deep level inside me.
I’m fortunate in that I have a career where I get reminded of the amazing potential inside human beings every single day.
Moving Up The Mountain
“The smallest change in perspective can transform a life.” – Oprah Winfrey
What Price For Your Inner Calm And Clarity?
“To a mind that is still the whole universe surrenders.” – Lao Tzu.
“It’s just the price you have to pay”.
So said the ‘successful’ business person sitting in front of me.
We were talking about the pervasiveness of busyness in the modern world – or more specifically, the pervasiveness of a busy mind.
I used to believe the same thing.
I don’t any more. I can’t from what I’ve seen with clients and with myself.
The truth is you can be busy in your world BUT have a calm mind. And that makes a world of a difference to everything. Your energy, your clarity, your mood, your communication, your thinking, your creativity and your results.
Will You Take The Clarity Experiment?
“I’m not addicted to reading. I can stop as soon as I finish the next chapter.”
I love learning – particularly new and interesting information that expands my horizons.
But for a long time it was in an unhealthy way.
The truth is that for many years I was an information junkie. In a way, it was to be expected because that is the model of the current educational system in the Western World – learning is consuming and retaining information.
And while I made very positive improvements to my life because of new learnings, I knew I wasn’t applying everything I knew – but I didn’t know why.
Creating Your Impossible
“Nothing is impossible. The word itself says I’m possible!” – Audrey Hepburn
What do you do when you feel stuck?
What do you do when you lose sight of the mountain you’ve been climbing?
One thing you can do is to make space to dig into interesting questions with an open mind:
Here’s one:
“What now is impossible, but if it could happen, it would change everything?”
I got this email from someone over the summer that I hadn’t seen in a while:
