The world we live in consists of the visible and the invisible. The form and the formless. The finite and the infinite.
The business world focuses almost exclusively on the form and what is visible.
If you want to improve results in any area of your business – marketing, sales, leadership, management, finances – there is a huge amount of help on offer.
We’re told how to think. How to behave. We’re given strategies, tactics, and know how.
Often, this is packaged up in a compelling way that appeals to our intellect because it looks like an easy way out of our problems and challenges.
The 10 steps to….
The 7 keys to….
12 rules of….
What’s not to like? Yet….
Where does our power really come from?
No doubt a lot of experience and wisdom has gone into much of the prescriptive material on offer.
But how much does all this information help people?
Are we really like robots who can simply follow the instructions of other people and get similar results?
Or does the invisible have far more to do with success than we may imagine?
For instance, what about…
*Clarity?
*Presence?
*Timing?
*Intuition?
*Inspiration?
*Grace?
*Momentum?
*Creativity?
*Confidence?
*Resilience?
These and many other qualities exist in the realm of the formless.
But are they any less real?
Why do we so easily discount the invisible?
Some people talk about the invisible dimension, but the words can only point.
The business world likes what is concrete because the intellectual, conceptual mind loves form. It loves processes, steps, and formulas.
To the intellect it is highly attractive to discover that to get what we want there is a neat, packaged solution.
But the problem is that attractive though it may seem life does not lend itself to this approach.
For example, I often hear people talk about mind-set, but the talk is almost always about form.
People offer prescriptions such as:
*Upgrade your words
*Choose better thoughts
*Surround yourself with the right people
*Adopt a new set of habits
*Take a small step each day
The list must be endless!
Chance conversations lead to a deeper understanding
Back in 2004, when I began coaching people, I focused on the form too.
I thought that people just needed to know what to do. They needed a technique, strategy, or instruction.
But I began to see inconsistencies.
For instance, armed with the same information or technique, why did some people get great results whilst some got dismal results?
Why did people’s performance seem to randomly fluctuate (my own included)?
Why did some people change but others not?
I did not know the answer but when you sit with enquiry things show up. Often in unexpected ways.
A series of seemingly chance conversations lead me to the inside-out understanding and I had a realisation.
A deeper insight into what really drives behavior and, therefore, results.
For the past fourteen years I have been pointing people towards this understanding and how it creates our moment-to-moment experience of life.
Has it all been plain sailing?
Definitely not!
I stumbled around in the beginning.
When sharing it with people you must be patient and stay present because the formless can be difficult to grasp; the intellect is of no use whatsoever.
And some people do not hear beyond the words because the illusion they live in is precious to them.
But this is all fine with me.
Everything comes back to the understanding in the end because our experience of life is thought created – every problem or challenge we can ever face exists only in our thinking.
This is not to say there are not things in life we need to deal with or get through because, of course, there are.
But if we see ourselves as victims of circumstance or feel bullied by life, then we lose our spark.
A whole new world of possibility opens up
The world of form is limited. The world of the formless is limitless.
The deeper you see how your experience is created the more you live with presence, intelligence, and free from struggle.
