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Mindset, Mindflow, Mindstate part 3
Unlocking Your Potential: The Power of Mindset, Mindflow, and Mindstate part 3 of 3 The journey of personal growth, self-improvement & self-mastery is a continuous process, and understanding the power of mindset, mindflow, and mindstate can significantly impact your overall well-being and success in life, relationships and business.
Mindset, Mindflow & Mindstate part 2
Unlocking Your Potential: The Power of Mindset, Mindflow, and Mindstate The journey of personal growth, self-improvement & self-mastery is a continuous process, and understanding the power of mindset, mindflow, and mindstate can significantly impact your overall well-being and success.
Mindset, Mindflow & Mindstate part 1
Unlocking Your Potential: The Power of Mindset, Mindflow, and Mindstate The journey of personal growth, self-improvement & self-mastery is a continuous process, and understanding the power of mindset, mindflow, and mindstate can significantly impact your overall well-being and success.
Personal Power and How to Keep it
Personal Power and How to keep it Interestingly and sadly, we give others command and control over us without even knowing we are! We give them power over us. How does that happen, I hear you ask? Influence is powerful and can be insidious. I see and hear every day that individuals give their personal power away to others and do not even know they are doing it.
How does Age affect Leadership?
How does age affect Leadership? Age can affect Leadership in a variety of ways, both positive and negative and this short article covers some & not all of the ups and downs that age provides
What is Hope?
Why have hope? Hope is a feeling of expectation and desire for a certain thing to happen. It is a feeling of positivity that can help you to overcome challenges and difficult times.
True Wealth Thinking
When we think about wealth, our first thoughts often turn to money. We may think about lavish homes, expensive cars, and designer clothes, and we may see these material possessions as symbols of success and prosperity.
Comparison can be the Devil in Disguise
‘Full of Yourself’ – is that an insult or a compliment? A friend of mine posted yesterday that she had been accused of being ‘full of herself’ interesting I thought what is all that about I wonder Now this person I know has made phenomenal strides in the last year with her health both mental and physical, she openly talks about being suicidal 5 years ago, she has had a T Total year, she has done incredible work with her podcast & her business. She is a mum and a wife & because she has shared her message and her journey warts and all someone informs her that she is ‘full of herself’ WOW is all I can say AND why am I not surprised? ‘The Tall Poppy Syndrome’ came to mind which is where people attempt to cut down those that stand above (figuratively writing) them ‘The Green Eyed Monster’ is another way of referring to jealousy & can spring to action when comparisons are made & has been spoken about since Shakespeare wrote about it in Othello ‘Sour Grapes” when someone claims to not want something, often because they are envious of someone else who has it “Bitter Pill” something that is hard to accept or swallow, often because it causes feelings of jealousy or resentment & maybe you think you should have what the other person has without doing the work “Keeping up with the Joneses” & realising you are failing (for whatever reason) although trying to maintain the same level of material possessions or status as the neighbours or peers, often out of envy or competition or comparison Now my final phrase on this is: “Envy eats nothing, but its own heart” which an old saying that suggests that envy consumes a person from the inside and brings them no happiness – all I can say is the person who expressed the thought ‘you are full of yourself’ is eating themselves up with comparison from the inside out Now comparison is fine when it is a healthy comparison which spurs you on to do more, to be more, and to give more, of you to the world that supports and challenges others – we grow on that cusp of balance Comparison is not a useful exercise when it leaves you feeling negative not only about yourself but those you are comparing yourself to!. Now I would suggest that the person who wrote the phrase felt and thought they were better than my friend by keeping quiet about their success or achievements I can tell you wholeheartedly that is ‘faulty’ thinking We all need to learn to share more, it helps others to know it is possible We all need to learn to value ourselves more – it is our human right We all need to learn to admire others and applaud their success We all need to learn from those doing more for themselves than we are We need to learn to celebrate and express success in all its forms and applaud others quietly or loudly in any way we can – we need to learn to get out of the negative ‘cutting others down’ and into the positive ‘raise everyone up’ Change your thinking & change your life – a new book being written on that exact subject by me RIGHT NOW End of Rant & continue sharing my friend Ellie #ConsciousLeadership #Business #TheConsciousLeadershipCode #SuccessThinking #TrueWealth
“The Windmill of Your Mind” Leadership
The phrase ‘The Windmills of Your Mind’ has been haunting me for several years (as has Shiva) and yesterday clearing paperwork from a recent office move I placed a notebook called bright ideas on a table beside me – within a second of putting it down a fabulous red admiral butterfly landed on the cover and stared at me! Now I am not one to disappear into the realms of fantasy and I know enough and have seen enough to know that signs are out there and if we choose to see them they can lead us to great places. I picked the book up and what did I see a note from 2016 ‘The windmill of My Mind’ & ‘Passion’ in the same thought process along with #ConsciousLeadership #ConsciousHealth and #ConsciousLearning No one would ever have been able to convince me that I have taken 4 years to get to write this and to follow up on it in a cohesive and structured way. A lot has happened in the previous 4 years, so I am not truly surprised. BUT and of course, there is always a BUT a couple of months ago an elderly gentleman I have been shopping for during lockdown rang me up to talk to me about a song he had just listened to and how he thought it related to me and my mind. We do have very interesting conversations; he was a lecturer on engineering and is fascinated by human evolution. Guess what the song was – you’re right ‘The Windmills of Your Mind’ That led me to research the song which was written in 1968 and was the theme tune for The Thomas Crown Affair sung by Noel Harrison – now why do I mention this BECAUSE Noel Harrison was not only a professional singer and self-taught guitarist but he was an actor and an Olympic skyer and the 1st UK grand slalom champion and he left school at the age of 15 who also appeared as a regular on The Tonight TV programme. He was a #ConsciousLearner and did not rest on his laurels or his fathers name. The song has been covered over and over most recently by Alison Moyer & Venus I looked the words up and just some of the phrases and how I see them related to Leadership & Management The Title 1st – ‘The Windmills of Your Mind’ A windmill is a structure that converts wind power into rotational energy and since the 9thC has had from 9 sails to more recently 3. Now as Leaders as a windmill we have: Wind power – communication Rotational – movement at different speeds around a centre point Energy – momentum And the Mind you have has the impact on yourself and those you lead and manage. The mind is the element that enables you to be aware of the world and your experiences, to think, to feel; the faculty of consciousness and thought. The mind links to intelligence, awareness, capacity, wits, rationality, perception, the mind provides you with the cogs that drive the Windmill through your powers of reasoning. The words to the song which I will speak more on in a future article ‘Leadership is a wheel within a wheel, never ending or beginning on an ever-spinning reel’ Round like a circle in a spiral, like a wheel within a wheel Never ending or beginning on an ever-spinning reel Like a snowball down a mountain, or a carnival balloon Like a carousel that’s turning running rings around the moon Like a clock whose hands are sweeping past the minutes of its face And the world is like an apple whirling silently in space Like the circles that you find in the windmills of your mind! Like a tunnel that you follow to a tunnel of its own Down a hollow to a cavern where the sun has never shone Like a door that keeps revolving in a half forgotten dream Or the ripples from a pebble someone tosses in a stream Like a clock whose hands are sweeping past the minutes of its face And the world is like an apple whirling silently in space Like the circles that you find in the windmills of your mind! Keys that jingle in your pocket, words that jangle in your head Why did summer go so quickly, was it something that you said? Lovers walking along a shore and leave their footprints in the sand Is the sound of distant drumming just the fingers of your hand? Pictures hanging in a hallway and the fragment of a song Half remembered names and faces, but to whom do they belong? When you knew that it was over you were suddenly aware That the autumn leaves were turning to the colour of her hair! Like a circle in a spiral, like a wheel within a wheel Never ending or beginning on an ever-spinning reel As the images unwind, like the circles that you find In the windmills of your mind! Contact Julie on Connect@julieHogbin.com to have your questions answered Leadership is vital at all times and even more so in times of uncertainty