Paula was in a financial crisis that threatened the survival of her business. She felt panicked, discouraged – even hopeless. This happens to all of us at times – it’s not like you can control your reactions to challenges even when you understand the role that Thought plays in your experience.
A woman leader who I’m working with asked me recently to describe to her why a responsive, rather than reactive, state of mind is essential for leadership. I have many examples of how leaders have blown it with colleagues, at team meetings and with direct reports by becoming reactive rather than responsive. But what came…
Learning about the Single Paradigm has helped me enormously with integrating the three principles into my life sustainably. Before learning to think about the principles paradigmatically, I was on a kind of emotional roller coaster, and so for the most part were my colleagues and our clients. It didn’t look that way to me at…
I began some Skype coaching with the owner of a small publishing company in N.Y.C. last week. My client, whom I shall call Joe, was drawn to my work because he had looked at my websites and liked the fact that I work with the power of thought. Everything was going fine in Joe’s life…
This week’s client story is about an executive I coach named Greta. A global leader, Greta is highly structured at her job because she has so much responsibility. Previous to learning about the inside-out nature of life, she would bring all that structure home with her. She tried to keep everything running on a tight…
Those of us who teach the “3P’s” as they’ve come to be known are often asked if we ever get caught up in our thinking. The answer is: ‘Of course we do!” The point of understanding the inside-out nature of life is not to be happy all the time, but to understand where your experience…
Carla is a medical doctor who tends to be quite analytical, work long hours, and have a very busy mind. After learning about the inside-out nature of life, Carla’s mind settled down quite a bit- all sorts of unnecessary thinking dropped away. Within that new mental space and mental quiet, she began to realize that…
When Brian and Mary came for their couples’ intensive, they were on the verge of a divorce. They had been married for 30 years and had 4 kids who were now all leaving the nest. When I interviewed them before their intensive, he said he felt they just needed to spend some time together now…
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