Introduction We invite you to email us at connect@beyondthinking.co.za to ask one question you may have around your well being, joy and happiness. We look forward to answering your questions. Dealing with heartbreak I have been...
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...
The end of the year is near! It is often at this time, we reflect on what we have “become” and how we have changed as a result of the collective experiences through the year. Join Colin as he shares a story about change and how we can use this to reflect on how we...
What makes you, you? Psychologists like to talk about our traits, or defined characteristics that make us who we are. But Brian Little is more interested in moments when we transcend those traits -- sometimes because our culture demands it of us, and sometimes because...
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...
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...
The origins of a growth mindset are from the time when Carol Dweck and her research partner, Claudia Mueller were both at Columbia University, New York. They were exploring the consequences of different types of praise and how this affected students. This research...
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