In order to be balanced, you first have to be unbalanced to then understand what balance is. Happiness. You first have to be unhappy to know what happiness is. Success. We first have to fail to then understand what real success means. How come balance is so hard to find? Relationship issues, changes in your…
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Plato, Aristotle, Lao Tzu…. Great philosophers. A nice to have and nice read in our free time, now let’s get back to work. Philosophy is a dream, it does not have a place in business. If we only knew that the journey of our life is the journey towards self-realization. Our job, our marriage, our…
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Leadership potential includes the ability for strategic thinking, dealing with ambiguity, interpersonal skills, openness to feedback, leading others, influencing, risk-taking…. The list goes on… These are in summary a way of how the mind is managed and used in different situations, experiences, and circumstances to get optimal results. However, imagine you hire a person with…
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Sometimes words are not necessary to learn the lesson. When you are in a leadership position, when you are a father, when you are in a position of authority sometimes silence can be the greatest teaching. Giving advice and opinion is easy, being silent is not. Giving advice and opinion comes from the mind. Being…
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I remember I was asking a friend often for his opinions. And at a certain point he said, ‘’are you not sure about your decisions’’? And I said ‘’yes I am but I just need perspective’’. That’s why they keep reading. That’s why they have a board of advisors. That’s why they have a coach.…
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Career Transition The idea of Career Transition is daunting to many. The reason is not because of all the obstacles or the struggles you might face when going through this journey, but because of the constant battle between what you should do and what you want to do. All the hassle the path could and…
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If you want to be successful copy what successful people do and you will achieve the same or similar results. What mindset do successful people have, copy or adopt a similar mindset and you will get similar results. Do you want to be successful at social media marketing? Copy how the Gurus do it and…
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In short Sometimes the easy road is to just leave: the job, the relationship, the conversation we don’t want to have. I reckon the hard road is the one with no regrets, where you finish the unfinished business and choose a life true to yourself. My parents got divorced when I was 15. My dad…
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What Is Philosophical Counselling? Philosophical counseling is a form of therapy that uses philosophical thinking and principles to help individuals better understand and address their personal and psychological challenges. Unlike traditional psychological counseling, which focuses on the treatment of mental health disorders, philosophical counseling is more concerned with helping individuals explore and clarify their values,…
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Recently I was on a Zoom call with an executive from a manufacturing company. ‘’For years I have been following Carl Jung’’, ‘’I went to meditation retreats’’, ‘’I did a lot of work on myself’, ‘’I even did Ayahuasca (a plant-based medicine from Peru) for self-healing’’. ‘’But here I am still struggling and not feeling…
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Integrity hard? Shouldn’t integrity be easy? Yes, integrity is easy for the ego. It is easy to say what the right thing to do is. You have to be honest, you declare everything that needs to be taxed, you speak the truth, you don’t cross through the red light even when there are no cars……
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A client lost his job but found his purpose in the process A person bitten by a shark in Australia became a shark rescuer. A friend of mine hired the wrong person but said ‘’he’’ taught me a valuable lesson. It’s not what it seems to be. Reality, our life experiences, the meaning we give…
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