The cure for a busy mind
A condition that seems almost epidemic in today’s world is the overly busy mind.
We’ve become so accustomed to it that we tend to accept it as normal.
Yet a busy mind can be at the root of many of the problems we experience in our work and lives.
How to have a low mood without it having you
Many years ago, I read The Road Less Travelled by M. Scott Peck. The first line in that book is particularly famous: “Life is difficult… and once we truly see this truth, we transcend it.” It is a powerful statement, and one I have thought about many times since. I have also come to see […]
When the holiday ends… does the feeling have to?
Just recently I was speaking with a client who had just returned from holiday.
It was her first day back at work.
She told me she’d had a wonderful break. She’d relaxed, slept well, laughed more than usual, spent time with people she loved and, for a while, life had felt wonderfully uncomplicated.
But as she drove into work that morning something changed.
The freedom of being yourself
It seems to me that we are happiest when we are simply being ourselves.
Perhaps this is why children spend so much time in joy. They have not yet created a rigid self-image, so they invest little energy trying to live up to one.
Spiritual teacher Ram Dass once observed that from the moment we enter the world, we begin what he called “Somebody training.” He wrote:
Why insecurity is the biggest ego trip of all
When you hear the phrase ‘ego trip’ what do you imagine? For me, I’d picture someone showing off, being loud, or making everything about them. I looked up the definition, and this seemed to back up what I was thinking: “An activity done to increase one’s sense of self-importance.” But several years ago, I came […]
What really drives results (it’s not what you think)?
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 […]
The quiet power of your inner wisdom (and why we forget it)
For years, I was an almost obsessive consumer of self-help, psychology, and business success material. Books. Podcasts. Courses. New “breakthrough” ideas. I was always looking for something that would help me become a better person, get better results, and live a good life. And to be fair, a lot of what I learned was helpful. […]
The surprising truth about happiness
On Amazon there are over 7,000 books listed on the subject of happiness. Every day the media serves up ever more sets of tips, hacks, and “scientific breakthroughs” promising to make us happier. Recently I found myself wondering: Why are we so endlessly fascinated with happiness? And it struck me that it often comes back […]
Why I stopped meditating
‘We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.” Pierre Teilhard de Chardin I remember getting curious about meditation, probably twenty years ago or maybe even longer. Reading the local newspaper one day I saw that there was going to be a local talk on Transcendental Meditation […]
Learning to laugh at our foibles
Just how much success, money, fame, material goods, power, etc. would you need to eradicate your insecurities? I recently read an article about the actor Brad Pitt and it was interesting to read how he is still beset by self-doubt. He said: ‘It’s a constant battle. You gain wisdom as you get older, so self-doubt […]