Read more about the article 333: Book Reflection | Make Peace with Your Mind: How Mindfulness and Compassion Can Free You
333: Book Reflection | Make Peace with Your Mind: How Mindfulness and Compassion Can Free You

333: Book Reflection | Make Peace with Your Mind: How Mindfulness and Compassion Can Free You

Make Peace with Your Mind: How Mindfulness and Compassion Can Free You from Your Inner Critic by Mark Coleman

“With mindfulness, we can be with the experience in more immediate way. When we find ourselves flooded with an emotion that’s come after the judgement, we’ve often missed the very judgment that triggered the emotion.” Mark Coleman

More mindfulness anyone? It plagues books these days and for that I am a big fan. I don’t think we can get enough. Either we control the mind or it controls us. The one place we have full control yet I wonder how well do we exercise that control. The mind becomes what it sees and believes. The mind sets our reality. An unobserved mind that runs wild and free may be less conducive to creating the reality we truly desire.

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Read more about the article 332: Leigh Martinuzzi | 3 Minute Thought: A Formula For Meaningful Work
332: Leigh Martinuzzi | 3 Minute Thought: A Formula For Meaningful Work

332: Leigh Martinuzzi | 3 Minute Thought: A Formula For Meaningful Work

"It is impossible to have a great life unless it is a meaningful life. And it is very difficult to have a meaningful life without meaningful work." Jim Collins Here is…

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Read more about the article 331: Andy Andrews | Sweet the Little Things, Be Different, Choice, Perspective, Responsibility, A Meaningful Life
331: Andy Andrews | Sweet the Little Things, Be Different, Choice, Perspective, Responsibility, A Meaningful Life

331: Andy Andrews | Sweet the Little Things, Be Different, Choice, Perspective, Responsibility, A Meaningful Life

Summary

“However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.” Winston Churchill.

Hailed by a New York Times reporter as “someone who has quietly become one of the most influential people in America,” Andy Andrews is the author of the New York Times bestsellers How Do You Kill 11 Million People?, The Noticer, The Traveler’s Gift, and recently The Little Things. He is also an in-demand speaker for the world’s largest organizations.

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Zig Ziglar said, “Andy Andrews is the best speaker I have ever seen.”

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Read more about the article 330: Leigh Martinuzzi | Self-Control, Discipline, Consistency, Leadership & Mastery
330: Leigh Martinuzzi | Self-Control, Discipline, Consistency, Leadership & Mastery

330: Leigh Martinuzzi | Self-Control, Discipline, Consistency, Leadership & Mastery

"Before you can control conditions, you must first control yourself. Self mastery is the hardest job you'll ever tackle. If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by…

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Read more about the article 229: Joel Brown | Replay: Founder of Addicted-2-Success – #1 Personal Development Website
229: Joel Brown | Replay: Founder of Addicted-2-Success - #1 Personal Development Website

229: Joel Brown | Replay: Founder of Addicted-2-Success – #1 Personal Development Website

Summary

“The only advantage you can have these days is truth and you can only have truth from experience.”

In this episode I was grateful to speak with Joel Brown, millennial entrepreneur creating success online. We discuss his journey to success that was inspired and developed by seeking out other greater mentors and looking for clues to success.

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Read more about the article 328: Book Reflection | Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion by Sam Harris
328: Book Reflection | Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion by Sam Harris

328: Book Reflection | Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion by Sam Harris

Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion by Sam Harris

“The fact that one can lose one’s sense of self in an ocean of tranquility does not mean that one’s consciousness is immaterial or that it presided over the birth of the universe.” Sam Harris

Another fascinating and insightful read of the year. Sam Harris is the author of five New York Times best sellers including this one and writes on the topics of neuroscience, religion, meditation, politics and philosophy. He also has a kick-ass podcast that was introduced to me by a friend that has become a bit of a favourite.

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Sam Harris is deep and very knowledgeable. If I am honest much of what he talks about is over and beyond my simplistic mind but when I do manage to handle his language and thoughts I am inspired beyond which words can’t describe – speechless!

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Read more about the article 327: Leigh Martinuzzi | 3 Minute Thought: Discipline A Leadership Skill & A Key To Success
327: Leigh Martinuzzi | 3 Minute Thought: Discipline A Leadership Skill & A Key To Success

327: Leigh Martinuzzi | 3 Minute Thought: Discipline A Leadership Skill & A Key To Success

"We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment." Jim Rohn Self-control and discipline. In many ways I am a…

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Read more about the article 326: Mike Bundrant | NLP, Observing the Mind, Defining Problems & Overcoming Self-Sabotage
326: Mike Bundrant | NLP, Observing the Mind, Defining Problems & Overcoming Self-Sabotage

326: Mike Bundrant | NLP, Observing the Mind, Defining Problems & Overcoming Self-Sabotage

Summary

“A well-defined problem seeks its own solution.”

Mike Bundrant, co-founder of iNLP Center, is an NLP Master Trainer, INA Fellow and retired psychotherapist. He is also author of Your Achilles Eel: Overcome the Hidden Cause of Negative Emotions, Bad Decisions and Self-Sabotage. You can find Mike at inlpcenter.org.

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In this inspiring chat we start of talking about NLP and how it can be used not only benefit others but ourselves. This extends into a deep conversation about mindfulness, becoming a better observer of the problems in our live and in the
process better defining our problems. From there taking ownership of them so we can seek out greater solutions. It’s a talk about the conscious and unconscious mind and how masterful it is in shaping our lives. Enjoy this show guys.

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Read more about the article 325: Leigh Martinuzzi | Discovering Happiness | Cravings, Desires, Past & Future
325: Leigh Martinuzzi | Discovering Happiness | Cravings, Desires, Past & Future

325: Leigh Martinuzzi | Discovering Happiness | Cravings, Desires, Past & Future

"A man who gives way to pleasure will be swept away by craving and his thoughts will make him suffer, like waves." Dhammapada v. 339 Last week I discussed how we…

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Read more about the article 324: Greg Levoy Replay | A Meaningful Life is not a Secure Job & Pay Check – It’s Contribution, Significance & Peace
324: Greg Levoy Replay | A Meaningful Life is not a Secure Job & Pay Check - It's Contribution, Significance & Peace

324: Greg Levoy Replay | A Meaningful Life is not a Secure Job & Pay Check – It’s Contribution, Significance & Peace

Greg Levoy, author of Vital Signs: Discovering and Sustaining Your Passion for Life and Callings: Finding and Following an Authentic Life, shares what it means to follow your passion versus taking action based on security. We talk about how to begin to take action, how to connect with passions and how to discover your calling in life.

The way the world is changing and what the future holds can be speculated but what we conclude is that there is a clear yearning for us to connect deep with (more…)

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