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
How to Live in Balance
Self-Awareness and Self-Confidence – Living in Balance What a concept that is, for late (ish) 2022, when this is being written, we all need to be aware that there are differences between short-term interest and long-term interest and the consequences of both and how we choose to focus and how we choose to operate. Our behaviours, and, our long-term interest in anything is far more important than the short term. It serves us to remember that there is no absolute and everything is relative. We must be able to judge according to the circumstances, our experiences, and feelings which are mainly related to our bodies and our minds. It is also wise to remember that mental happiness and mental calmness is beneficial to all. And to consider that although two people may face the same kind of tragedy, or situation, or circumstance, one person will face it more easily than the other due to their own mental attitude, abilities and coping mechanisms. And if you really want to live a happy life, then it’s important to pursue the internal and the external means and what do I mean by that? Personal Development and material development and this is not something you’ll hear me say very often, but we can be as personally developed as we can possibly be. And if we do not have a roof over our head, food on the table, and warmth when it is freezing cold outside, then will we be truly happy? And as much as we need personal development, and we do need material possessions, we also need spiritual development. Spiritual development does not necessarily link to a religious faith. Spiritual development can relate to the core basic human qualities and characteristics of someone who lives with ethics for a good life doing good for flora, fauna, people and planet. We all have the same human potential, and even with a mental or physical impairment, many of us have huge potential to become far, far, far more than we currently are. When we utilise that potential in the right direction, and we utilise the brilliance of the human mind and body and soul, we can create magic, rather than creating disasters. We can create happy lives for ourselves. And we can also help and support others to create their happy life. We must remember that we all have a natural creative ability. We sometimes just have to find the switch and turn it on. We need to realise our own potential and accept our own potential and then build if we do not already have it, the self-confidence in our own ability and potential. Self-confidence is not something that comes to many naturally. Self-confidence is something that can be built, it can be developed, and it can be managed. We can all develop from where we are to where we need to be. When we live with our future in mind, we become the person we need to be to achieve the thing that we want to achieve. We create balance or imbalance in our own lives. And recognising that everything is in balance. It is an important first lesson in creating a happy life. As a very simple example, if we do not smile, how would we and why would we expect others to smile at us? Most of our outcomes and our results originate from within and what we put out into the world, generally speaking, is what we receive back. Coming back to the smile, it is illogical to expect smiles from others if we do not smile. And one of the first stages to live a happy life is self-awareness. Now, what do I mean by that? Being aware of our own behaviours, our own thoughts, our own habits, our own unconscious, and conscious driving forces, which allow us to make judgments, which allow us to change our behaviours, which allow us to assess and rationalise the situation. Why would we do that? When we think and rationalise, we can think about the potential for our own benefit and the benefit of others. Self-awareness, and self-confidence do not always mean that we have to be right. And that thing we are doing, looking at, we are assessing, we are reviewing has to be a win for us, regardless of any other situation, and the other people at the centre in the scenario as well. And as much as I don’t particularly like the phrase win-win. It is something that when we think about win-win, and utilise the concept appropriately, many situations that aren’t currently a win-win can become one. And believe it or not, on occasions, we don’t have to win, we can lose. And as long as we are losing with a conscious forethought of mind, it can help all parties to lead a happier life. Remember, everything is in balance, we win, we lose, and we win-win. Let’s think about self-confidence, when we choose to balance that out, what is the balance. The other ends of the spectrum, it could be conceit, or it could be pride, or it could be lack of confidence. One leads to good results, and the others potentially lead to not so good results for very different reasons. Maybe this is the point to say one of the things that very often comes up in these types of conversations, people are told they have an ego, and the ego got in the way. Let’s have a think about this, we all have an ego all of us, it is neither good nor bad, we need it Let’s look at what that actually means. The ego is a person’s sense of self-esteem, self-importance, self-confidence, self-image, self-worth. Our ego is the part of the mind that mediates between the conscious and the unconscious, and is responsible for our reality testing, and provides us with a sense of personal identity. We need our ego to allow us to continue, we need our ego to