When I first heard practitioners of the Three Principles talk about the principle of Thought in semi-rapturous tones, I thought that at best they were a bit simple and at worst a bit brainwashed. After all, I already knew that people thought. It hardly seemed worth mentioning, let alone waxing rhapsodic about…
For the past few days, I’ve been running a workshop for coaches and leaders called Coaching from the Inside-Out…
Yesterday, my wife and I were watching the movie ‘Divergent’, based on the bestselling novel by Veronica Roth which my daughters and I enjoyed tremendously. The heroine, Tris, has been identified as ‘divergent’, which in a society that encourages a tribal commitment to singular personality traits (you get to choose between being friendly, brave, smart, honest, or self-effacing) is considered a dangerously subversive condition…
One of the most popular programs I’ve ever run was called “Creating the Impossible”. The premise was simple – choose a target that you figure you have a less than 50% chance of reaching, and then go for it, playing full out and fearless without any real sense that you “should” be able to get there…
Someone who was considering attending one of our Learning How to Thrive retreats sent me an email that reflected a struggle that a surprising number of people seem to have when they are first learning the inside-out understanding that all of our feelings are derived from thought, regardless of what may or may not be happening in the outside world:…