MIND NOISE AND THE POWER OF SILENCE

THE POWER OF SILENCE When we meet people, we want to impress them. Sometimes we want to excite their interest and get their favour, or we want to project an image they like or perhaps to intimidate them or impose our will on people.  How do we cultivate these impressions quickly and effectively? The most…

Hard work is bad management

Who would promote a stressed, emotionally drained, worried, tired and hunched over in sadness individual? Only a cruel individual would add another KG to the back of an overloaded camel. It just wouldn’t be fair. Sometimes human nature and our ego get into a fight. The ego wants to be right, human nature wants to…

BETTER PARENTING – SELF MANAGEMENT AT HOME

“Growth is painful. Change is painful. But nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don’t belong.” Chris Walker All of us, but especially children, need confidence that others will love, affirm, and cherish us. Without that we can’t develop a sense of agency that will enable us to assert: “This is what I…

TOTAL HUMAN AWARENESS

For many years Corporations have made the mistake of compartmentalising the development of people with the aim of increasing productivity and yet, the total human being, the heart, quality of life, relationship and other aspects of the human condition have been ignored. As we enter an era of hyper accelerated decision making the demands on…

The Neuroscience of Nature Mind and Health

Innerwealth Personal Mastery recommends business executives take a walk at lunch time in nature. It increases productivity, libido, wellbeing, raises the immune system and recuperates tired mind to enable a productive afternoon and warm homecoming at night. Here’s the science behind a bit of it. Neuroscientists have found that views of complex, dynamic natural scenes…

Innerwealth Slide Show for Audio

Why personal development is an essential investment in Self. I’ve scripted an audio for the slide show below. Download the pdf first then enjoy the listen. Podcast can be found on iTunes

Billionaire, Millionaire or Broke?

Inner wealth determines outer wealth. What are you worth, to yourself but most importantly others? Anything that increases your value to self or other increases your inner wealth. You can tell the difference between what you think you are worth to others and what you are actually worth by their level of enquiry. You might…

LIFE IS A MEDITATION – IF YOU DEAL WITH TENSION WELL

People search for harmony for many reasons. But the most basic one is to be free of the tension.  Infinite volumes of spiritual literature can be reduced to a few simple choices in life. Either to be consumed by tensions, or to rise above them. It is really that simple. Tensions that consume our life…

A Fight With Nature Cannot Be Won

My beautiful friend asked me “why do we go up and down in life? I thought she meant weekly or monthly but it turns out that she wanted to know why half an hour ago she was having a positive upper and now she was feeling down, tired and dejected. My first guess answering her…

DESIRE IS ESSENTIAL IN LIFE

Desire is absolutely essential to the progress of life. Even those who teach desirelessness are expressing the great human desire for rest and relaxation. Desirelessness is a desire. Desire exaggerated becomes a craving, To properly use desire you must study the beauty and the advances of that which will give you the most pleasure and…

INSTINCT

Instinct – On the money plane get used to income of money so that you are not afraid to spend and receive money readily in the direction you are going. Instinct is less than intuition and is a good guardian against being ripped off. Instinct is linked to attraction and repulsion – and therefore is…

Here’s some sage advice from those who’ve lived it.

Nothing is new. It’s all been done 1,000 times before. Why reinvent the wheel? You want success, it’s a science and all you need to do is find someone who is successful in your field who wrote about it and do what they did. Trouble with this is in many books and stories online about…

THE PATH: SELF AND TEAM LEADERSHIP

I have spent a lot of time contemplating the diversity of recommendations to strengthen and support teams. My conclusion is that the team is only as good as its weakest link. Team leadership is not about empowerment as we once thought. Moreover, it is to educate and make wise those we lead. If there’s an…

The Person at the Top of the Mountain Didn’t Fall There.

We get taught that hard work leads to results. So, when there’s need for improvement our primal instinct combines with our memory of hard work leading closer to results, to create an angry, impatient approach. It doesn’t work. Diligence, commitment, constancy, failure, rebound, recovery, sticking at it. These words more represent the mindset of the…

THE POWER OF TEAMWORK IN RELATIONSHIPS

Relationships are meant to be a team sport. The incredible power of two individuals supporting each other can make the difference between top of the world and bottom. What gets in the way is selfish nepotism. I’ve seen it over and over again. A great team torn apart by self interest. When there’s a common…

The Sub Mind – Events are Events Until we Judge Them Otherwise

The existence of everything whether material or physical is made up of events. History is purely a succession of events. The birth, life and development of the earth is a series of events. Human life itself from the first cry to the last gasp is simply a series of events. One activity following another. Death…