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In these episodes we dive deep into the challenging aspects of the human experience, in the pursuit of making some sense of this thing we call life. Our concept is to have an open discussion with the public that offers a variety of viewpoints and approaches to any topic we delve into. It also allows us to hear questions and experiences from every day walk of life from our listeners and we then share them live on the show. Since work tends to be about a third of our time working and then allo ...
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"The day we finally hold ourselves accountable, rather than putting the blame on others, and come clean about our responsibilities, we unfetter ourselves from ravaging frustrations and fretting crankiness." - Erik Pevernagie, "the Unbearable Heaviness of Being" To get into the right frame of mind, it is important to understand the fundamentals abou…
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Building resilience through awareness “Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient.” – Steve Maraboli, “Life, The Truth, And Being Free” The Oxford Dictionary definition of resilience is, “The capacity to withstand or recover quickly from difficulties.”. I would like to offer an additional definition, “the measurem…
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The basis for conscious interactions is expressing your authenticity “The moment you become aware of the ego within you, it is strictly speaking no longer the ego, but just an old, conditioned mind pattern. Ego implies unawareness. Awareness and ego cannot co-exist.” – Eckhart Tolle In our complex world, every interaction we have is an intricate da…
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Believing your own thoughts is the source of your suffering “Do you know the power of your words? When you tell yourself stories that aren’t true your unconscious mind believes them. Your beliefs also can make you sick. You curse yourself by repeating lies.” – Trish Taylor, “Yes! You Are Good Enough.” You may experience imposter syndrome in a varie…
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Happiness, do we attain or discover it? “True happiness is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose” – Helen Keller The quote above, though deep in its perspective, raises a question; is happiness something innate or attained? In fact, does any of the emotions we experience already exist within us before the…
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Integrity is a balancing act between who you are, who you want to be, could be and who society expects you to be. “I cannot, and will not, cut my conscience to fit this year’s fashion.” – Lillian Hellman Let’s start with the definition of integrity: “The quality of being honest and having strong moral principles; the state of being whole and undivi…
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"Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate." - Nicholas Janni, "Leader As Healer" In our conversation we learn to understand Nicholas' concept of Leader As Healer. He summarises it beautifully, "[Leaders] who has rejected the normalised version of reality, which is dominated by linear thinking. [It…
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The only win in a conversation is conquering yourself “Those who make conversations impossible, make escalation inevitable.” – Stefan Molyneaux Courageous conversations are, like other interactions, all about the participants internal process relating to how they perceive their input and output. Our ability to follow through with a courageous conve…
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“The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.” - Ernest Hemingway Society's approach to homelessness has traditionally been, crassly put, "you got yourself in to homelessness, now you prove that you want back into society.". This perspective has made it easy for society and us individually to ignore the homeless as humans an…
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About Kevin: Kevin Blaushild is the Founder of I Love HR, helping HR Teams transform from being administrative and compliance-driven to being a value-add business partner. He believes the organization of the future is purpose-driven and people-centric, and require an HR function that advocates for purpose, people and culture. Before starting I Love…
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“Yea, he who is a true king of men, will not say to himself, 'Lo! I am worthy to be crowned with laurels;' but rather will he say to himself, 'What more is there that I may do to make the world the better because of my endeavours?” ― Howard Pyle, The Story of King Arthur and His Knights Leadership is more thank just showing up being the boss. It is…
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The value of your experience lies not in the experience itself, but in your perception of it “The Eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.” – Robertson Davis, “Tempest-Tost” Whatever you decided your reality is, you are right. It is the perception of your experiences that is your reality, not the experience itself. Also, the external …
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Shift your perspective on what relationships are “The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is a reaction, both are transformed.” – Carl Gustav Jung Most of us would limit the idea of relationships to the interaction between people, but the it is in fact defined as, “the way two or more people or thin…
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Coping mechanisms are gateways to understanding what needs healing “Denial, perhaps, is a necessary human mechanism to cope with the heart aches of life.” – Richard Paul Evans, “The Christmas Box” Coping mechanisms are any tools and strategies we employ to deal with stress and/or trauma to help us manage our difficult emotions. They are strategies …
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"Power in organisations is seen as a scarce commodity worth fighting for." - Frederic Laloux, "Reinventing Organizations" "Shop floor operators craft the products; the CEO and staff at best serve to support them, at worst are costly distractions" Extract from the list of "assumptions" from FAVI S.A. as part of their self-management structure, taken…
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What discovering disappointment has taught me “It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.” – William Blake In this article I am sharing my first person perspective on the healing process as I work through it from discovery, through observation, to healing. Disappointment comes out of attachment. If we aren’t attached to the outcomes…
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Beware of your expectations and conditions “Kindness is nota business. true kindness expects nothing in return and should never act with conditions.” – Roy T. Bennett, “The Light In The Heart” We place our expectations on ourselves and the world around us, many times without expressing or understanding these expectations; they become our conditions…
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Don't deceive yourself with positive illusions “Positive Illusions are unrealistically favourable attitudes someone has towards themselves, their experiences, or other people.” We find the concept of Positive Illusions first in Taylor and Brown’s paper from 1988 entitled, “Illusion of Wellbeing: A Social Psychological Perspective On Mental Health”.…
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“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.” ― Mother Teresa When we lose the connection to our reality we tend to lose our purpose and motivation. Coping mechanisms, like alcoholism, will further disconnect us and drive us on a spiral downwards. Listen to Nick Rothwell's story of childhood trauma pushing him…
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Blocks are your perceptions of your past experiences that prevent you from growth and evolvement “Don’t let mental blocks control you. Set yourself free. Confront your fear and turn the mental blocks into building blocks.” – Dr. Roopleen, “Words To Inspire The Winner In You” Blocks are whatever in your life is holding you back from flowing with you…
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"The BizShui Method helps create better flow in hom offices and work spaces by integrating a blend of proven traditional Feng Shui principles with modern business and personal needs, reducing physical and emotional stresses to increase productivity, loyalty and profitability." - Clair Boscq The application and the practices of Feng Shui are fascina…
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"The first thing that you can learn as a leader is that you are not working with robots but with emotional beings." - Pooja Agnihotre, "17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail : Unscrew Yourself from Business Failure" What is it that makes us connect emotionally with a business? There are certain conditions that have to be met in order for that to happen. I…
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Help your business to become the best version of itself “A healthy business is a collaboration of individuals with matching energies, directing that energy in to their individual passions towards a mutual goal.” – The Alchemy Experience Conceptualising all elements of a business as energy and any interactions as energetic flow allows us to assess t…
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"Take the challenge of your life. Reach out to your goals. There is no limit to what you can achieve." - Lailah Gifty Akita The basic foundation of conscious entrepreneurship is to always let your intuition have the last word. I write that with the caveat that you need to be in tune with your intuition and have cleared your energy to be able to hav…
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Become the optimal version of yourself to release your cords “Forgiveness is required to dissolve all the negative energy cords because it releases shame, guilt, anger, hatred, etc.” – Hina Hashimi “Your Life: A Practical Guide to Happiness, Peace and Fulfilment” I define a cord as, “An energetic linki that connects us to a person, place or an even…
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Understand the source of your procrastination and you have the road map to resolving it “A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choices made for him by circumstances.” – Hunter S. Thompson, “The Proud Highway Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman” Procrastination is a form of self-regulation failure characterised by the …
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Expressing emotions to release them “Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.” – Sigmund Freud When we pay attention to our emotions we realise they don’t emerge from our heads, they surface somewhere in our bodies. Those emotions are triggered by external events or our feelings triggered …
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Sensitivity is a human superpower “She had a very inconvenient heart. It always insisted on feeling things every so deeply.” John Mark Green A Highly Sensitive Person is defined in psychology as someone with a high measure of sensory processing sensitivity, i.e. someone who feels things far deeper than the next person. It is considered a personalit…
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Build your discipline to move towards what you want out of life “Spirituality is man’s attempt to shed ties with the various impulses promoting self-destruction” – Patricio Tehman Chincocolo Follow along here: discipline requires habitual practice, but habitual practice requires discipline. So which comes first? I think the answer is either one, bu…
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Do you know your own behaviours? “We judge ourselves by our intentions and others by their behaviours.” – Stephen M.R. Covey “The Speed of Trust: The One Thing That Changes Everything” Behavioural science is defined as, “any of various disciplines dealing with the subject of human actions.” Our behaviours are based on our; experiences, conditioning…
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Take action with purpose supporting your highest good “The future depends on what you do today.” – Mahatma Gandhi There are, in my opinion, two types of action; inspired action and re-action. Resorting to re-action comes out of our core wounds and traumatic experiences that remain unhealed. From that, when emotions and fear are evoked and we are st…
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Are your words spreading high or low frequencies? “In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” – Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. In terms of energy, words are expressed on one hand and received on the other. They hold an energetic frequency charged by our perception and intention. As we well know, we can u…
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Are you your thoughts or are you the thinker of those thoughts? “What you you’re supposed to do when you don’t like a thing is change it. If you can’t change it, change the way you think about it. Don’t complain.” -Maya Angelou “Wouldn’t Take Nothing For My Journey Now” Thought is energy that triggers chemical and neurological impulses that allow u…
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Are you awakening to your experiences, or will you hit snooze yet again? “We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness.” – Tich Nhat Hanh There are comprehensive books written on the subject of awakening, so let’s not pretend that this article, nor the connected podcast will be the same. However, the intention is to present a basic under…
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Take a good look at your cognitive biases “Oh, the irony. Cognitive Biases prevent us from understanding cognitive biases.” – Eric Barker, “Barking Up the Wrong Tree” Cognitive biases are unconscious errors in thinking that arise from problems related to memory, attention or other mental mistakes. Essentially, how do we attribute these mental exper…
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Learn to see the forest despite the trees “Most of us operate from a narrow frame of reference than that we are capable, failing to transcend the influence of our particular culture, our particular set of parents and our particular childhood experience upon our understanding” – M. Scott Peck ” The Road Less Travelled: A New Psychology of Love, Trad…
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What will it take for you to start living your purpose? “He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.” – Friedrich Nietzsche Our purpose in life is not immediately revealed to us. We may be fed bits and pieces as we go along, but those pieces feel like our purpose in that moment we are pursuing it. However, most of us have our purpose firm…
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"The only time you fail is when you fall down and stay down." - Stephen Richards "Cosmic Ordering: You Can Be Successful" The wealth mindset nowadays is intrinsically linked with materialistic wealth, but there must be more to it than that, mustn't it? I like to think of it in terms of "abundance" as opposed to "wealth". That shift allows me to be …
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"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome." - Isaak Asimov Transition between paradigms is, in my experience, akin to near death experiences. From one day to the next you shed your identity and you have to figure out who and what you are, that is the transition. We all approach transition and a variety of differen…
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"The sequence is, suffering, insight, will, action, change." - Allen Wheelis "How People Change" The process of paradigm shift is through profound change. It is awakening to a desire to discover and express one's authenticity. If we ignore the nudges long enough, the point at which we shift will be immediate and drastic, hitting rock bottom for man…
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Anxiety can lead you to what you need to heal “Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our hearts, we still cling to anything – anager, anxiety, or possessions, we cannot be free.” – Thich Nhat Hanh, “The Heart of the Buddha’s Teaching: Transforming Suffering Into Peace, Joy and Liberation” Anxiety, in c…
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What are you taking from and feeding into the Collective Emotions “I came to the conclusion that we should aspire to increase the scope and scale of human consciousness in order to better understand what questions to ask. Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment” – Elon Musk Collective emotions, is t…
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"My teachings are about finding this balance between the physical world and the spiritual world." Mark Weisman, https://akulfhednar.com/ Úlfhéðnar (sing. Úlfheðinn) were the elite shock troops of the Norse. Apart from being the most fierce warriors they also embodied a deeper spiritual connection. It is this Celtic Norse spiritual connection that D…
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Are you feeling the abundance? “Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.” – Eckhart Tolle “A New Earth: Awakening To Your Life’s Purpose” Abundance is defined as, “A very large quantity of something”. In our modern, industrialised world, abundance has become synonymous with external accumulation…
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