Mindfulness Habit Releasers

“Renew, release, let go. Yesterday’s gone. There’s nothing you can do to bring it back. You can’t “should’ve” done something. You can only DO something. Renew yourself. Release that attachment. Today is a new day!” ― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience I came to Mindfulness through the book by […]

How do you make time for Mindfulness when you have no spare time?

“Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.” ― Jean de La Bruyère, Les caractères One aspect of mindfulness is that you need to put aside time to practice. In our busy and hectic world, when it is suggested that you take 20 minutes or even […]

Being v’s Doing? The choice is yours

“Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”― Narcotics Anonymous As human beings, we spend all of our existence doing instead of being. We should in effect be called Human Doings. From the moment we get up in the morning to the moment when we close our eyes and […]

Mindfulness – Benefits and Positive outcomes for you and me

“When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love …” ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations Even though the academic research on mindfulness meditation isn’t as robust as, say, nutrition or exercise, there is a reason why it’s been around for literally thousands of […]

Management of Change – final research part – Enabling people to change

“Culture does not change because we desire to change it. Culture changes when the organization is transformed; the culture reflects the realities of people working together every day.” Frances Hesselbein, The Key to Cultural Transformation, Leader to Leader (Spring 1999) In the last post, I talked about the biggest positive impact in enabling change, Agility, […]

Management of Change – Latest research part 4 – Agility is the Key

Even those who fancy themselves the most progressive will fight against other kinds of progress, for each of us is convinced that our way is the best way.” Louis L’Amour (The Lonely Men) In the last post, I talked about the accumulated impact of the change and that there is one driver of employee change […]

Management of Change – Latest research part 3 – Accumulated Impacts

“The rate of change is not going to slow down anytime soon. If anything, competition in most industries will probably speed up even more in the next few decades.” John P. Kotter [Leading Change] In the last post, I talked about the impact of change and time that it takes to recover from the change. […]

Management of Change – Latest research part 2 of 5 – Change Burn Out

“Change is hard because people overestimate the value of what they have—and underestimate the value of what they may gain by giving that up.”— James Belasco and Ralph Stayer Flight of the Buffalo (1994) Continuing the outcome from the Corporate Executive Board webinar, this article is on four categories of change success and measuring the […]

Management of Change – Latest research part 1 – Embracing Change

“One key to successful leadership is continuous personal change. Personal change is a reflection of our inner growth and empowerment.” Robert E. Quinn One of the aspects of working in a B2B – Business 2 Business – service organisation, is that there are organisations and research that the company I work for subscribes to and […]

A BRIEF OVERVIEW OF STRUCTURED HELP THROUGH RAPID MEMORY CHANGE

“One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.” ― Rita Mae Brown I love this quote so much I’ve used it again. Further to the previous article I wrote on memories – Are memories really real? How do they work?, I wanted to follow up on the idea that memories are not “real”, […]