Every Wednesday evening for the past 13 years or so, my best friend David and I take our dogs up into the hills near our homes for a midnight hike and what we call “the talk on the walk”. This is a free-flowing talk about anything and everything, and over the years we’ve covered thousands of miles and every imaginable topic from comparative philosophy to politics to strategies for diaper changes…
Before I gained some insight into the inside-out nature of experience, I used to assume that conditions and circumstances had inherent emotional feelings attached to them. Trading in volatile financial markets or working in an ER were inherently high-pressure, high-stress jobs. Getting what you want would always make you happy. Being rich and thin meant you would be confident…
Today’s tip is taken with permission from Jamie Smart’s new book, Clarity: Clear Mind, Better Performance, Bigger Results, about to be released by Capstone Publishing in the UK. Jamie is a friend and colleague, and began working on this book when he was a member of my coaching apprentice/mastery program back in 2009…
Excerpt from A Whole New Way of Thinking About Success, with George Pransky & Michael Neill
If you’re a regular reader of these tips, you’ll know that the fundamental understanding of life that I write, teach, and coach from is what I call “the inside-out paradigm”. The inside-out paradigm says that our experience of life comes one hundred percent from thought in the moment. In other words, we don’t experience life, circumstances, or other people; we experience our thinking about life, our thinking about circumstances, and our thinking about other people…