The Ability To Learn Faster Than Your Competitors May Be The Only Sustainable Advantage
With competition comes the notion of competitors – a word that can sound anywhere between exciting to deadening. How do you conceive your competitors? Often, I’ve found in working with business owners that they either diminish the competition or make too much of it. It’s arrogant and risky to say, “We have the best – […]
“The End Of The World As We Know It” Shifts To “The World We’d Like To Know”
Thank you for your responses to the question about “the end of the world as we know it” – and, in particular, how the “end of the world” feeling can be transformed into “the end of the world as we know it,” and then into “a new world that actually has a chance of being […]
Oscar Wilde On Suffering
“Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that there is in the world.” Oscar Wilde Is there any other area of life that has produced as much worry and suffering as love? Must love produce suffering, or is the suffering a […]
“Only When We Are No Longer Afraid Do We Begin To Live” ~ Dorothy Thompson
The world can be a scary place, and there are endless reasons to be concerned. Yet, meeting those concerns with worry generally produces no worthwhile result. Most often, worry causes needless suffering. Dorothy Thompson said: “Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.” Consider that worry is a form of fear. […]
The Enemies Of Confidence Are Anxiety And Fear
The enemy of confidence is anxiety and fear. Notice how worry can begin in a small way, then slowly creep into your consciousness and grow. Worry erodes confidence. Concerns about not enough money, time, love, imagination, accomplishment . . . all of these can mutate into disquieting feelings which have robbed us of joy. It’s […]
What Aspects Of Technology Scare You The Most?
No discussion of technology at this time of year would be complete without mention of scary technology. Nuclear weapons are the scariest of all; and Albert Einstein spoke about them as follows: “My part in producing the atomic bomb consisted in a single act: I signed a letter to President Roosevelt, pressing the need for […]
Feedback From Internationally-Recognized NLP Practitioner Regarding Fear
My great friend and internationally-recognized psychologist and NLP expert, Art Giser, wrote about yesterday’s session and the quote from Dune. I asked him if I could share it with Study Hall participants and he said, “Absolutely!” *** Some thoughts on the quote from an NLP perspective: I have always liked that quote, and in terms […]
What Do You Do When You Are Not Being Intrepid?
What about NOT being intrepid? How has it felt when you have lost your nerve, found your courage sapped, and your resolve weakened? Among the famous lines from Dune by Frank Herbert is, “I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I […]
The Continuum of Risk-Taking
Managing risk is managing probabilities. What are the chances of getting the desired result versus the chances of missing it? Each of us has a difference tolerance for risk and varying degrees of analyzing it. On one end of the continuum is the risk taker who leaps without looking – either trusting for the best […]
Tough Love and Surrender
Some element of trust is required to surrender to something that may be amazingly good for you, but that you may be afraid of for various reasons – including fear that you may not be up to it. But, most likely, you are up to it or the invitation to surrender would not be in […]