Earlier this week I had a great conversation with one of the participants on our upcoming Learning How to Thrive retreat in Switzerland. We were speaking about the nature of thought, and I was searching for an analogy that might highlight the paradoxical role thought plays in our lives. It determines our every experience, yet the less we focus on it, the better experiences we tend to have..
Over the past few months, I have become very conscious of the amount of energy and effort that many of my clients put into attaining and maintaining peace of mind. Here are the five main strategies I’ve noticed them employ:…
Since I began writing regularly just over a decade ago, I’ve written well over a million words, published over 800 blog posts, and contributed writing in one form or another to 11 published books. And yet every time I sit down to a blank computer screen, I wonder if this time the words will flow. Four days in five they do, and I am able to complete my writing for the day in one uninterrupted session. Ah, but that fifth day…
As regular readers of these tips will know, one of the biggest things I’ve learned over the past few years is this:
The less I have on my mind, the better life gets…
A reader of these tips wrote in last week to ask about our upcoming Coaching from the Inside Out event in London in July. The key question in their email was this:
I’m interested in your upcoming coaching event in London, but I’m curious why you make a distinction between inside-out and outside-in. Isn’t all coaching a combination of both?
Here’s an excerpt from my reply:…