Values are a part of us. They highlight what we stand for. They represent our unique, individual essence. Values guide our behaviour, providing us with a personal code of conduct. When we honour our personal core values consistently, we experience fulfilment. When we...
Ethics are one of the key secrets to the success factor of effective leaders. The best leaders exhibit both their core values and their ethics in their leadership style. Hence our ethics and values are far more visible than some realise as they are lived through our...
When thinking about how to develop our careers, most of us tend to focus on promotions, projects, courses, certifications. We seek out expanded roles, more senior titles, extra money. In doing this we overlook one very key piece of the learning puzzle: proactively...
It's still just the beginning of 2019 and an appropriate time if you haven’t already, to ask yourself ‘what do I want to achieve this year?’ For the longest time I assumed it was normal practise for most people at the end or beginning of a year, to take stock and...
Synchronicity is a mysterious and funny affair. Not too long ago, I attended an Enneagram Coach training, where Portia Nelson’s fabulous poem was referenced - ‘The Hole in my Sidewalk’. I was reminded all over again of its brilliance and relevance, in that no matter...
Many of you have been introduced to the Enneagram through the Beyond Thinking progamme and will recall what invaluable insight you found when making the connection between your personality and core underlying fears. The fact is, we are more fixated on the fear of the...
So what is this thing called personality which distinguishes our uniqueness from common humanity? I found the most succinct response to this question in the recommended reading link at the end of this blog. ‘The bottom line is it depends upon your perspective on human...
As we continue with the broader theme of Heart Intelligence and the role trust plays in this, I am reminded of this brilliance of inner knowing from Mandela who modelled and invoked so much trust in so many, If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes...
We are born as love - in our hearts and for ourselves, for each other and for this magnificent planet. Being infants, we don't know it, we just are it. The same way we don't know we are infinite beings because we are it. Then one day, we become aware of physical...
Colin and I always discuss possible newsletter topics for the upcoming month and this time we found our common ground with ‘The Little Book of Ikigai’, by Ken Mogi It had us really curious and the more we explored ikigai and how this relates to our own lives and the...
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