by Michael Neill | Nov 30, 2012
Have you ever had the experience of being about to walk away from a project, and just at the point where you give up on it, suddenly something happened that made the whole thing fall into place?
More often than not, what happens in those moments is that you’ve taken the pressure off of yourself. And suddenly when the pressure is off, everything starts to move. This is 180 degrees counter to the way that most of us have learned to think about pressure. We’ve been taught to think that we need a certain amount of pressure in order to succeed…
by Michael Neill | Nov 26, 2012
Have you ever woken up after a nap or a good night’s sleep and suddenly life is just better than it was before you closed your eyes?
Most people think it’s because they’re rested, and that may well be true. But it’s also true that when you wake up, you’re usually not thinking the same thoughts as you were when you went to sleep. And when our thoughts change, our feelings change right along with them…
by Michael Neill | Nov 19, 2012
When it comes to success, coaching, personal development, and even most therapies I have come across, the most popular game in town is “getting control”. People feel out of control of their thoughts, emotions, moods, relationships, finances, and lives, so they read and listen and study and practice in hopes that with enough hard work, they can go from feeling out of control to in control…
by Michael Neill | Nov 12, 2012
One of the most common afflictions clients come to me with is a sense of overwhelm – a feeling that there is too much to do and nowhere near enough time to do it in. To their surprise, I rarely recommend addressing their to-do list directly. Since all our feelings come from thought, and not from our circumstances, I know that overwhelm is actually caused by over-thinking…
by Michael Neill | Nov 5, 2012
(I originally wrote about the D-O-R model a couple of years back, but wanted to revisit it today as it fits in with the last couple of week’s tips – Three Pathways on the Game of Life and A 10,000 Year Old Model of Success. If you missed those tips first time around, you can read them here.)
One of the main questions I’ve been exploring and wrestling with over the past 20 years or so is how we create more of what we want in the world…
