This week’s blog, How Change Really Happens, is excerpted from my coaching apprentice turned colleague Nicola Bird’s first Hay House book, A Little Peace of Mind. It shares a simple metaphor for how profound change can happen without any effort, willpower, and practice through insight and understanding.
Almost eight years ago, my son Oliver and I were taking a campus tour of Boston College when I came across an interview with Father Michael Himes, a Catholic priest who was a part of the theology faculty there. In discussing how he came to choose the topic for his weekly message, he said that he long ago determined the futility of trying to direct a particular message at the diverse needs of his listeners. He asks himself instead what he most needs to hear and speaks to that…
Money fascinates me. On the one hand, it seems to “makes the world go round”; on the other hand, it clearly has no intrinsic value, worth, or power outside of the system of agreements we operate inside of. So how has something as abstract and fungible as “money” become so tangible in driving human behavior?…
Over the past few weeks, I’ve gotten a number of emails from people wondering (and in a few instances complaining) about the fact that I’m offering a new program about financial freedom. The general question goes something like this:
If you say there’s a spiritual essence to your work, isn’t it distracting (or misleading or evil) to talk about money?
This week’s video is a bit of a change of pace. Caterpillar’s Advice is episode 3 of Wonderland X, a groundbreaking VR180 adaptation of Alice in Wonderland with a decidedly Three Principles twist. You may well recognize the voice of the caterpillar…