If you want to be inspired, you have to go looking for inspiration. Take a few minutes to let Linda guide you into your own experience, into landscapes with space and movement, and into your connection with people who are energized and engaged by their actions. You can be one of those people, when you begin with a focus on finding inspiration. Build a state that's ready for inspiration and take it back into your day. You will find the inspiration you're looking for.
Entries Tagged as 'Fresh Thinking'
How to Find Inspiration
July 2nd, 2016 · Comments
Tags: Fresh Thinking · focus
You don’t need a fresh start: you need to make compost
March 27th, 2016 · Comments
It's the season when fresh starts seems possible. We look at flowers and green buds and think: "that's what I want. A fresh start."
Tags: Fresh Thinking · resource · metaphor
Use the language of full engagement
January 4th, 2016 · Comments
In 5 minutes, you'll understand metaphor than you ever understood it in high school. Metaphor isn't just a concept from literature: it's the language of full engagement, the language that uses the most of your brain and reaches out to activate the most of someone else's brain/body/mind system. Using it better consciously takes a little time. It's like making change in the way you walk or pronounce words or breathe. You use metaphor so naturally, it's hard to change. The rewards for changing make it worth the effort. You'll become better at understanding your own thinking and changing other people's.
Tags: Fresh Thinking · communication · metaphor
Celebrate Like It’s the Most Important Choice You’ll Make
December 21st, 2015 · Comments
Celebrations are fun - but are they important? Listen to find out why celebration is one of the most important choices we make as human beings. Anyone will pay attention and remember times of threat or suffering. We have to consciously make an effort to pay equal attention to times of achievement and satisfaction. When we do, we store the light we need in dark times.
Tags: Fresh Thinking · Focus · resource
I wish you enough: an exercise in choosing a more resourceful self
November 21st, 2015 · Comments
Many NLP trainers will talk about powerful anchors. An anchor is an object or physical sensation that is connected to a particular state or experience.
Tags: · Fresh Thinking · anchor · resource
4 Chairs: Shift Perspectives to Shift a Problem
November 3rd, 2015 · Comments
Maybe you're stuck. You've been hurt or disappointed and you don't know what to do next. You're reaching for something you can't quite define. You're doing well, but you've hit the edge of your interest and there's no clear path ahead.
Tags: DefaultTag · Fresh Thinking · Motivation · Focus · hope · nlp
A guided exercise to find the you who is genuinely thankful
October 10th, 2015 · Comments
Sometimes it's hard to feel thankful on cue. You might know that mindful gratitude is a wonderful attitude that leads to all kinds of benefits. It does, but how do you get there? For many people, thanksgiving holidays are a reminder that they are alone, or that their families are nuts, or that they have way too much to do. You might be stressed or insecure or tired. What's the best way to put all that aside and notice that you are already thankful? What's the best way to get from grumpy to glad?
Tags: · Stress Management · Fresh Thinking · Focus · gratitude
From Monkeys to Miracles: How Language Works
October 6th, 2015 · Comments
I'd really love you to be part of our symposium in Toronto on October 17. But even if you can't, this introduction will get you thinking differently about how our monkey minds resist the clarity of language, and how we sometimes achieve the miracle of communication anyway. Leading Words is going to be a day that transforms the way people think about time, energy, words and a life well-lived. You'll meet interesting people, share stories of courage and creativity, and engage in conversations that mean something. October 17, Toronto, Ontario, http://bit.ly/leadingwords
Tags: Fresh Thinking · language · communication
We are wired for connection, and our wires get crossed
September 21st, 2015 · Comments
Are you an introvert or an extrovert? Do you know the right thing when you hear it or do you just know it? Understanding your personality might be less helpful than understanding how all human brain/mind/body systems are wired.
Tags: Fresh Thinking · Focus · communication
So You Want More Control?
September 10th, 2015 · Comments
Welcome back after a summer break. Today's episode is about how to get more control: control of yourself, control of your situation, control of what other people will do or notice.
Tags: Fresh Thinking · Focus · communication