Wednesday, 29 February 2012
Developing Leadership Consciousness!
During our Buddhist pilgrimage in India we were honoured to receive a teaching from The Ven. Prof. Geshe Ngawang Samten, Director and Vice Chancellor of the Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies in Sarnath, Varanasi. His answer to the question "how should we best prepare ourselves for pilgrimage?" was a perfect template for how to develop leadership consciousness!
"The best way is to transform ourselves", he said. "And then try to transform others". He went on to say, "cultivate and make manifest those positive qualities in yourself. There is no better way to bring about peace in the world than to transform ourselves!"
Monday, 27 February 2012
Pilgrimage!
Saturday, 28 January 2012
Life is a Choice!
Palliative care nurses work with dying people, typically for the last three to twelve weeks of their lives. When patients were questioned about any regrets they had or anything they would do differently, common themes surfaced again and again:
1. "I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me."
2. "I wish I didn’t work so hard."
3. "I wish I’d had the courage to express my feelings."
4. "I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends."
5. "I wish that I had let myself be happier."
Life is a choice. It is YOUR life. Choose consciously, choose wisely, choose honestly. Choose happiness!
Saturday, 7 January 2012
Rational Lies!
Making a complex decision is never easy. Your unconscious mind makes a snap judgement based on feelings, while you conscious mind attempts to come up with reasons for what you're feeling. It's hard to know if you're really making a rational choice for the "right" reasons, or if you're telling yourself "rational lies"!
Find out more at the Decision Apps for a Wiser World workshop in Sydney January 18, or in Melbourne February 24. You can get information and registration here.
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