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Listen to that feeling, the feeling you have when you are doing something. If everything feels normal, it’s because you are doing what you’ve always done. But if you are feeling perhaps some anxiety, some uncomfortable feeling when[…]
You are creating and cementing habits every day. Every day you are growing stronger at the things you do. Every action, every behaviour literally leads to a thickening of the neural pathways in your brain as it receiver the feedback from your actions. The actions become less thought out, more automatic. You become an expert. You ar[…]
If someone isn’t doing something that you want, there’s no consequences. You might be thinking, ‘yeah, that’s right, they’re breaking the rules because there’s no consequences’ – well, no, that’s not what I’m talking about. And actually that’s an incorrect assumption, a fallacy. The belief[…]
At many levels in business and society there is competition between individual gain and collective good. There is a paradox, or an incompatibility, an incongruence, a conflict – whatever it is, it is there, and a balance needs to be maintained for optimum performance for the collective. Imagine that you are a seasoned construction[…]
My daughter and her fiancé are visiting, we haven’t seen her properly for over a year. I’m going to cook something for lunch, I start discussing options with my wife (she’s American). She asks me why I bought more eggs wh […]
The space between stimulus and response. I want to be more careful. I want to be more curating and purposeful. I want to be more thoughtful with what I say, how I respond. Buddha lik […]
No behaviour happens in isolation of the situation. Every behaviour is linked, inextricably to the environment in which it occurs. No person is how they are independently of their experiences. ‘I’ the person you see, the […]
Most of what you are and have accomplished in life is due to where you are rather than who you are. Most of where you are is because of where you were before that.[…]
Choices matter, there’s no doubt about it. The direction you take and the next step you make is critical to what happens next. Without it, the step after that is not possible, it could not be possible as it depends on the step before. […]
As a leader who has learned about human behaviour you know that… The behaviour of an individual is a product of the environment they are in at the time the behaviour occurs. Their interpretation of the environment (that led to their behaviour) was a result of their past experience and the feedback they have received. […]