It’s really been striking me lately how easily our minds can clear themselves and return to the present moment, where we have mental clarity and access to our best thinking, and yet how much time we spend disconnected from our mental clarity. When you watch children, it’s clear that nature designed your mind to clear…
I’m continually amazed by the power of living from the inside-out – knowing that the only thing I can feel is thought in the moment. One of the things that’s been hitting me lately is realizing how powerfully this awareness affects our consciousness, and how much our consciousness affects other people and the world. Here’s…
One of the things that I often notice about the new psychological paradigm is how, once you align yourself with it, it does all the work. Like a well-oiled engine, it keeps your mind running smoothly. Rather than thinking positively, re-framing, looking for a good feeling, or trying to clear your mind, aligning yourself with…
I wrote Mental Rest Part I last August, 2013. I talked then about how everything in nature has a rhythm of activity and rest, and how our minds are designed the same way. I pointed out in that article that people who learn about the 3 principles realize that, while activities like yoga and meditation…
Great leaders are people who naturally have mental clarity, and mental clarity comes from not having a lot on your mind. I have found the quickest way to not have mental clarity is to view your psychological life scientifically. Psychology, according to New Oxford’s American Dictionary, is “the scientific study of the human mind.” But…
Believe it or not, courage boils down to one simple thing: the ability to look thought right in the eye. Notice I didn’t say it’s the ability to analyze your thinking. Or to try to change it, or make it more positive. Courage comes from understanding the nature of Thought. Without this understanding, our minds…
Why Do Women Leader Lack Confidence, and What Can Be Done About It? Many books and articles coming out about women’s leadership lately have discussed women’s lack of confidence. Sheryl Sandberg talks about it in her wonderful book, Lean In, as do Katie Kay and Claire Shipman in their recently published article, “The Confidence Gap,”…
I was speaking with a client the other day, who complained of feeling constantly under pressure. She’s an educational consultant who travels for work, and is always trying to find a balance between her home and work life. I asked her about this sense of pressure. She said that she works off a to-do list,…
We didn’t design our minds, and its not up to us to make them work perfectly – they are already designed for success. Just like when you drive a car, your job is to understand how it works, but chances are, you didn’t design or build the engine. Someone else did, someone who probably knows…
Trust is considered essential for leadership, but where does real trust come from? We often hear about acting with integrity, consistency and fairness, recognizing value and rewarding achievement. While these are all important qualities in a leader, there is something deeper than all of these. What is it that really makes us trust another human…
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