Tips on identifying the right people to invest in

If you hesitate to express your opinion and find yourself constantly wondering what others think chances are that your seeking approval from them.  If you are seeking approval chances are you are not making your contribution. People like people who contribute. If YOU don’t make a genuine and real contribution people will avoid you. Lean to much…

A great friend and colleague sent this to me today.  A wonderful reminder that anything is possible and we should be “off balance on purpose”. We often feel pressure to stay with the patterns of behaviour we know.  The ones that have kept us safe.  We stick with these behaviours even if they don’t work for us…

“A thought is harmless unless we believe it. It’s not our thoughts, but our attachment to our thoughts, that causes suffering. Attaching to a thought means believing that it’s true, without inquiring. A belief is a thought that we’ve been attaching to, often for years.” ― Byron Katie

Being conventional has it’s benefits.  You can manage risk, be reliable, comply with policy and be safe. But, it has it’s down sides.  It restricts creativity and dampens your level of achievement. You end up living someone else’s life. Bend some rules. “Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy to growth” – John…

One way to reduce your reliance on power as a behaviour style is to give the power away. If you do that you  are likely to increase your use of Affiliative and Humanistic-Encouraging behaviour. That is probably why the saying works.