Conversation
An operating system to talk about
Improving Life At Work
5 joy hacks
Communication Smog
How much is it costing your company?
What’s Hanging On Your Walls?
How living from the heart will change your life
Conversation
An operating system to talk about
Improving Life At Work
5 joy hacks
Communication Smog
How much is it costing your company?
What’s Hanging On Your Walls?
How living from the heart will change your life
Do you know who you are other than the identity you own? And that identity is given to you by others – your family, friends, society and the like. So, who are you actually? Ordinary people like us do not spend time asking this question to our ‘selves’. But, once you ask it and explore further to find out the truth, your lives will change forever.
We all hold on to some illusion about who we are. It is how we are perceived by others – our family, our friends,the society and so on and that is how we see our ‘selves’. Seldom do we try to find out who we actually are. Now, if you really want to do an inner search, meditation or yoga can help you. Listen to how yoga helped NFL Star Athlete Keith Mitchell transform his life.
Conversation is, essentially, our brain’s O/S. This is because every single message transmitted from one neuron to another enables us to see, hear, move...and think. If all those 100 billion neurons were to stop talking to one another, our bodies and ability to process information would cease to function.
How we feel at work has much less to do with what we’re doing than we might think. And because of that, changing how we experience a workday is far more in our control than we suspect. Decades of research points to simple tactics I call joy hacksthat allow you to change your day—and, if they become habitual, even your life.
What would you do if a pollutant in your office was killing $5,000 of profit this year? What would you do if every single employee spewed forth that much pollution each year? This pollutant called “Ineffective Communication” affects every employee and causes smog in your organization that prevents clear and concise communicationwhile killing profits.
For two decades, Rod Dixon was one of the world’s greatest athletes. He represented New Zealand three times in the Olympic Games, and in the early 1980s he was the top-ranked runner on the competitive American road-racing circuit. His Olympic accomplishments include a bronze medal in the 1,500 meters at the 1972 Munich Olympics, a fourth-place finish in the 5,000 meters at the 1976 Montreal Games, and a tenth-place showing in the marathon at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics.
Sam and Boris were having lunch. Boris candidly told Sam that he admired his creativity and innovation. Boris was pretty risk-averse and never wanted to be the nail that stood out and got pounded down. Sam mentioned that he didn’t always think that way. He learned to acutely observe the traits, ideas and concepts of others, and incorporate them into his own professional style.
We live our lives, these days, with continuous stimulation - on-demand access to movies, articles, friends, books, games and music. With all possible, all the time, how can we hear ourselves think long enough for new and creative ideas to emerge?
The words you use to describe yourself speak volumes of your personality and self-image. They also often determine how successful you will be in both your personal and professional endeavors.