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 Michael Neill is an internationally renowned success coach and the best-selling author of The Inside-Out Revolution, You Can Have What You Want, Feel Happy Now!, the Effortless Success audio program and Supercoach: 10 Secrets to Transform Anyone's Life. He has spent the past 24 years as a coach, adviser, friend, mentor and creative spark plug to celebrities, CEO's, royalty, and people who want to get more out of their lives. His books have been translated into 15 languages, and his public talks and seminars have been well received at the United Nations and around the world. Read More...
August 15th  Time to ThriveGilleleje, Denmark SOLD OUT! August 18th Coaching MagicCopenhagen, Denmark August 19th Leadership from the Inside-OutCopenhagen, Denmark August 24th  Keys to Performance ExcellenceGöteborg, Sweden August 26th & 27th  The He'Art of Thriving in GroupsLondon, England More events...
  
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   This Wednesday, I'll be sitting down with Kim Hare, one of the UK's leading experts in brain-friendly learning and the principles behind the human experience. Alongside host Richard Nugent, we'll be answering your questions about working with groups and what it takes to create seemingly magical connections and breakthroughs from the front of the room. To join us, click here. I'll also be a guest facilitator on a live event with Kim in London on the 26th and 27th of August called The He'Art of Thriving in Groups - you can learn more, book your place, and even arrange a one on one chat with Kim here.
Thursday, July 24th at Noon Pacific/3pm Eastern/8pm UK The Ultimate Accountability Is being a victim something that just happens to us, a choice, or a misunderstanding? Join Michael live this week to explore the power of a deeper understanding of how life works!  To reach me live on air:Inside the US (Toll free) 1-866-254-1579 From the UK/Outside the US 001-760-931-4300 You can listen to the show this and every Thursday - simply go to hayhouseradio.com at Noon Pacific / 3pm Eastern / 7pm UK and click on the button marked 'Listen Now'. Did you miss our most recent live show called TAKE THE FIRST STEP? For a limited time you can listen to it here.
 Want to listen to this tip on audio? Click here to hear this week's tip and other recent tips! There is a line from the Greek poet Archilochus which is generally translated as: The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing. While foxes might be cunning and able to devise hundreds of strategies for catching unsuspecting hedgehogs off guard and eating them for dinner, the hedgehog has only one defensive strategy - to curl up in a ball, spiky spines exposed, and wait until the fox (or other predator) gives up and goes away. In his groundbreaking book Good to Great, author and researcher Jim Collins shares the following differences between foxes and hedgehogs as they relate to how people relate to life:
In the transformative conversation, instead of concerning ourselves with the hundreds of different categorizations of challenges people face, we reduce life down to its most fundamental elements - the three principles of Mind, Consciousness, and Thought. When it comes to living a wonderful life, it seems to me that we have the same choice - to learn and devise a thousand strategies for happiness and success, or to find one thing that really works and do it a thousand times. The obvious question is this: What's the one thing? After 24 years of coaching individuals and groups from nearly ever walk of life, I can say with confidence that the people who do really well over time are often not the smartest, or most well-read. They can be introvert or extrovert; seemingly self-assured or apparently neurotic and insecure. What they all have in common is that they have an unusually high degree of trust in their own sense of knowing, and a willingness to follow that sense right up to (and occasionally) over the edge of an apparent cliff if that's what it's guiding them to do. In other words, they have a deep relationship with and abiding faith in the wisdom within. The fact that so many of us are so out of touch with that inner wisdom is simply a function of a lifetime of "fox training" . We've been innocently taught from the time we were born that the "right" answers to our most important questions are in the world around us, already out there waiting if only we can find them. So we search and we seek, and sure enough, there are thousands of people only too willing to share their best advice on how to find happiness, get everything we want, and outfox the other foxes to make our way in the world. But meanwhile, the deeper mind - our inner wisdom - is quietly whispering (and occasionally shouting) words of guidance, common sense, and direction in our ear. Sometimes that guidance takes the form of a "no-brainer yes" or a "no-brainer no" that makes decision-making effortless. More often than not, I experience it as a simple feeling of "on track" or "off track" that lets me know when to hold back and when to jump in with both feet, even if what I'm jumping into seems way over my head at the time. Ironically, the more we think about it the harder it is to hear, which is why most of us intuitively know that when the outcome seems to really matter, it's worthwhile pausing for breath and letting things settle before pulling back or moving forward. But even when we lose our way, wisdom never leaves us. And when we know beyond a shadow of a doubt that our relationship with and faith in wisdom is all we need to live a life rich with meaning, purpose, and joy, it gets simpler. The fox of our cleverness doesn't need to be fed quite so often, and we begin to spend more and more of our time attending to the hedgehog of wisdom. The more we look within, the more we see; the more we see, the easier it is to do. And life gets better, moment by moment and one lovely day at a time. With all my love,
I'm getting really excited for my upcoming visit to Denmark and Sweden! The Time to Thrive intensive is now sold out, but there are still some places available on these great one day events: 18 August: Coaching Magic in Copenhagen19 August: Leadership from the Inside-Out with Mads Qwist in Copenhagen24 August: Keys to Performance Excellence with Anders Haglund in Göteborg Please do come up and introduce yourself if you are able to attend - I always enjoy meeting and putting faces to the names of the readers of these tips! |
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