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This is Changeability. I'm Julian Mather and mastering change isn't about being fearless or gifted— it's about building a skillset, by working on a few basics, a little bit, every day Today's guest is MC. Host. Event Producer. Video Communications. Presentation Coach. Renowned for high energy, intelligence, quick wit and ability to read an audience. Welcome Andrew Gill
This is CHANGEABILITY it's real change for real people and we keep it real simple Today's guest is a Real Estate Agent, a Social Selling Specialist and he lives in Brisbane Welcome Damian Piotto
This is CHANGEABILITY it's real change for real people and we keep it real simple Today's guest is Organisational Psychologist | Leadership Expert and Executive Coach. Welcome Clifford Morgan.
This is CHANGEABILITY it's real change for real people and we keep it real simple Today's guest is a keynote speaker, a team well being expert she reduces stress she stops churn she improves harmony Welcome Toni Powell https://tonipowell.com/ So we all know that business demands change But HOW do you change? Before we ride a bike, we get taught how to ride Before we drive, we get taught how to drive Before we change .. we get taught… nothing! We just get dumped in the deep end and told "We do it this way now" and people struggle so Julian Mather goes on stage and he makes change simple instead of over-complicating change he under-complicates it so people feel they can do things they never thought they could do before And he tells his own stories of going from army sniper to kids magician from behind the camera lens to in front of it from stutterer to keynote speaker and he shares insights from all the people he personally met like Sir Edmund Hillary, Elon Musk, inmates on death row, space shuttle pilots Plus it's all done in a fun way with magic and humour He brings change to life! and he leaves the audience with 3 rules of change that most people don't even know exist they can be used by everyone from the frontline staff to senior management to get aligned around change so everyone feels they can take change in their stride and make a fresh start In a nutshell… Julian Mather speaks on real change for real people made real simple See Julian speak at www.julianmather.com
This is CHANGEABILITY it's real change for real people and we keep it real simple Today's guest is Professional Conference and Event MC Welcome Luke Hannan https://lukehannan.com.au/ o we all know that business demands change But HOW do you change? Before we ride a bike, we get taught how to ride Before we drive, we get taught how to drive Before we change .. we get taught… nothing! We just get dumped in the deep end and told "We do it this way now" and people struggle so Julian Mather goes on stage and he makes change simple instead of over-complicating change he under-complicates it so people feel they can do things they never thought they could do before And he tells his own stories of going from army sniper to kids magician from behind the camera lens to in front of it from stutterer to keynote speaker and he shares insights from all the people he personally met like Sir Edmund Hillary, Elon Musk, inmates on death row, space shuttle pilots Plus it's all done in a fun way with magic and humour He brings change to life! and he leaves the audience with 3 rules of change that most people don't even know exist they can be used by everyone from the frontline staff to senior management to get aligned around change so everyone feels they can take change in their stride and make a fresh start In a nutshell… Julian Mather speaks on real change for real people made real simple See Julian speak at www.julianmather.com
This is CHANGEABILITY it's real change for real people made real simple Today's guest is Thought Breeder. Author: The 2 Hour Workshop Blueprint Business Strategist and Keynote Speaker Let's talk obnoxious strategy Welcome Leanne Hughes ------------ So we all know that business demands change But HOW do you change? Before we ride a bike, we get taught how to ride Before we drive, we get taught how to drive Before we change .. we get taught… nothing! We just get dumped in the deep end and told "We do it this way now" and people struggle so Julian Mather goes on stage and he makes change simple instead of over-complicating change he under-complicates it so people feel they can do things they never thought they could do before And he tells his own stories of going from army sniper to kids magician from behind the camera lens to in front of it from stutterer to keynote speaker and he shares insights from all the people he personally met like Sir Edmund Hillary, Elon Musk, inmates on death row, space shuttle pilots Plus it's all done in a fun way with magic and humour He brings change to life! and he leaves the audience with 3 rules of change that most people don't even know exist they can be used by everyone from the frontline staff to senior management to get aligned around change so everyone feels they can take change in their stride and make a fresh start In a nutshell… Julian Mather speaks on real change for real people made real simple See Julian speak at www.julianmather.com
This is CHANGEABILITY it's real change for real people made real simple Today's guest is
In this video, Join Dr. Sanjeev Goel from Peak Human Labs and his special guest, Dr. Anil , as they dissect the Netflix documentary "You Are What You Eat." In this episode, they discuss the first two episodes of the series and provide insights on nutrition and its impact on health. Don't forget to like and subscribe to their channel to support their work. Main Takeaways: - The first two episodes are discussed in detail, focusing on the relationship between nutrition and health. - Viewers are encouraged to like and subscribe to the channel to support the creators and increase visibility. To gain valuable insights into nutrition and its impact on health, watch the dissecting of the "You Are What You Eat" documentary on the Peak Human Labs YouTube channel. Like and subscribe to stay updated with their latest content.
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This talk is republished with permission by Metta Centre, teaching retrieved from http://Dhamma Talks – Metta Centre. Identity politics often revolves around the idea that people have fixed identities defined by their race, gender, religion, socio-economic standing, etc. This understanding can sometimes lead to social division and animosity. From a Buddhist point of view, however, it is a mistake. People are ever-changing, especially when one takes account of rebirth. True social harmony and brotherhood emerges from seeing identity as an ever-evolving construct without real essence. Ajahn Brahmali will also be participating in a fun Buddhist Trivia session as part of Metta Convention Week! For more info and to register please visit https://www.mettacentre.com/the-metta... ** Outline ** 00:00:00 - Introduction 00:02:33 - Meditation 00:10:30 - The Buddha's advice on teachers 00:13:47 - Changeability of identity 00:15:25 - Change leading to connections & commonality 00:16:21 - Rebirth 00:19:08 - Separation / "othering" is artificial 00:21:54 - Create unity 00:23:05 - Compassion and non-self 00:23:58 - Simile of the sick person 00:28:56 - Transforming identity 00:31:18 - Identifying with good qualities 00:32:37 - Meditation 00:34:09 - Ladder of more wholesome identities 00:35:28 - Finally overcoming identity 00:36:56 - Identity Politics conclusion 00:40:59 - Q: Self-compassion 00:43:42 - Q: Main insight of Enlightenment 00:45:12 - Q: Pride, the 3 conceits 00:48:33 - Q: Hindrances leading to pride 00:50:57 - Q: Disadvantaged groups, compassion 00:54:18 - Q: Balance between compassion & self-protection? 00:55:42 - Conclusion & dedication 00:57:25 - Announcements ** About the presenter ** Ajahn Brahmali was born in Norway in 1964. His interest in Buddhism and meditation started after a visit to Japan. Having completed degrees in engineering and finance, he began his monastic training as an Anagarika in England at Amaravati and Chithurst Buddhist Monasteries. Listening to the teachings of Ajahn Brahm, he decided to travel to Bodhinyana Monastery, located near Perth, and has been there since 1994. He later received higher ordination under Ajahn Brahm. Ajahn Brahmali's knowledge of the Pali language and the Suttas is excellent. He completed the only full English translation of the Vinaya Piṭaka (Monastic Law). It is available on the SuttaCentral website and will be published as a book in the next few years. Bhikkhu Bodhi, who translated most of the Pali Canon into English, called Ajahn Brahmali one of his major helpers for the recent translation of the “Numerical Discourses of the Buddha”. Ajahn Brahmali has also published a number of essays, including the book “The Authenticity of the Early Buddhist Texts” in collaboration with Bhante Sujato. Most of his publications are available online at bswa.org. Ajahn Brahmali's clear and thoughtful talks make the teachings of the Buddha easily accessible to all. He travels extensively in Australia, Asia and Europe to share his knowledge and experience through teachings and retreats. ** About Metta Centre ** To find out more about the Metta Centre & how you can support us you can visit https://www.mettacentre.com #buddhism #dhammatalk #dharmatalk #meditation #identity #compassion Please support the BSWA in making teachings available for free online via Patreon. To find and download more precious Dhamma teachings, visit the BSWA teachings page: https://bswa.org/teachings/, choose the teaching you want and click on the audio to open it up on Podbean.
What happens when you put three Behavioural Science gurus in a world-famous music studio? On this episode, we find out as my guests are Paul Craven, Rory Sutherland and Gerald Ashley, who join me for part three of a three-part series recorded at the world-famous Abbey Road Studios. Before listening to it, I highly recommend listening to Parts One and Two, which you'll find here.Part One
Why do some people become ‘super spreaders' for fashions and ideas? Why might an acceptance letter from a top University be worth more than a degree from the same establishment? These and many more questions are answered in this episode.My guests are Behavioural Science gurus Paul Craven, Rory Sutherland and Gerald Ashley and this is Part Two of a three part series recorded at the world-famous Abbey Road Studios. Before listening to it, I highly recommend listening to Part One, which you'll find here.
What happens when you bring three behavioural science gurus into a world-famous recording studio? Find out on three special episodes of the Human Risk podcast.Rory Sutherland, Gerald Ashley and Paul Craven have all been on the show before (links below), both individually and as duets. As the show approaches its 250th episode, I thought I'd invite them all back together for a recording session in Abbey Road Studios. For this first of three episodes, I asked Rory, Gerald and Paul a question that was inspired by our location: what makes things a hit? Why do some things go viral and others don't? What emerged was a wide-ranging conversation that explored:why predicting hits is unpredictable;how bubbles can have positive outcomes;the role that emergence and chance play in driving innovation;how trends evolve over time;the role that labelling and branding play in determining what we like and don't;how fashions and preferences change over time;and much, much more...If you enjoyed this episode and want to hear more:Rory on his own talking about ‘Compliance': https://www.humanriskpodcast.com/rory-sutherland-on-compliance/Gerald on his own talking about ‘Uncertainty' - https://www.humanriskpodcast.com/gerald-ashley-on-uncertainty/Paul on his own talking about ‘Magic, Money & The Mind' - https://www.humanriskpodcast.com/paul-craven-on-magic-money/Rory and Gerald Part One talking about ‘Networks' - https://www.humanriskpodcast.com/rory-sutherland-gerald-ashley/Rory and Gerald Part Two talking about ‘Prosilience' - https://www.humanriskpodcast.com/gerald-ashley-rory-sutherland/Paul and Gerald Part One ‘Statistics, Spreadsheets & Scams' - https://www.humanriskpodcast.com/gerald-ashley-paul-craven/Paul and Gerald Part Two ‘Context, Consequences & Changeability' - https://www.humanriskpodcast.com/paul-craven-gerald-ashley/Rory and Paul Part One ‘Alchemy & Magic' - https://www.humanriskpodcast.com/rory-sutherland-paul-craven-on-alchemy-magic/Rory and Paul Part Two ‘Magic & Alchemy' - https://www.humanriskpodcast.com/paul-craven-rory-sutherland-on-magic-alchemy/
Out of the Tar Pit is in the grand pantheon of great papers, beloved the world over, with just so much influence. The resurgence of Functional Programming over the past decade owes its very existence to the Tar Pit's snarling takedown of mutable state, championed by Hickey & The Cloj-Co. Many a budding computational philosophizer — both of yours truly counted among them — have been led onward to the late great Bro86 by this paper's borrow of his essence and accident. But is the paper actually good? Like, really — is it that good? Does it hold up to the blinding light of hindsight that 2023 offers? Is this episode actually an April Fools joke, or is it a serious episode that Ivan just delayed by a few weeks because of life circumstances and his own incoherent sense of humour? I can't tell. Apologies in advance. Next time, we're going back to our usual format to discuss Intercal. Links Before anything else, we need to link to Simple Made Easy. If you don't know, now you know! It's a talk by Rich Hickey (creator of Clojure) that, as best as I can tell, widely popularized discussion of simplicity and complexity in programming, using Hickey's own definitions that built upon the Tar Pit paper. Ignited by this talk, with flames fanned by a few others, as functional programming flared in popularity through the 2010s, the words “simple”, “easy”, “complex”, and “reason about” became absolutely raging memes. We also frequently reference Fred Brooks and his No Silver Bullet. Our previous episode has you covered. The two great languages of the early internet era: Perl & TcL For more on Ivan's “BLTC paradise-engineering wombat chocolate”, see our episode on Augmenting Human Intellect, if you dare. For more on Jimmy's “Satoshi”, see Satoshi Nakamoto, of course. And for Anonymous, go on. Enemy of the State — This film slaps. “Some people prefer not to commingle the functional, lambda-calculus part of a language with the parts that do side effects. It seems they believe in the separation of Church and state.” — Guy Steele “my tempo” FoC Challenge: Brooks claimed 4 evils lay at the heart of programming — Complexity, Conformity, Changeability, and Invisibility. Could you design a programming that had a different set of four evils at the heart of it? (Bonus: one of which could encompass the others and become the ur-evil) The paper introduces something called Functional Relational Programming, abbreviated FRP. Note well, and do not be confused, that there is a much more important and common term that also abbreviates to FRP: Family Resource Program. Slightly less common, but yet more important and relevant to our interests as computer scientists, is the Fluorescence Recovery Protein in cyanobacteria. Less abundant, but again more relevant, is Fantasy Role-Playing, a technology with which we've all surely developed a high degree of expertise. For fans of international standards, see ISO 639-3 — the Franco-Provençal language, represented by language code frp. As we approach the finality of this paragraph, I'll crucially point out that “FRP”, when spoken aloud all at once at though it were a word, sounds quite like the word frp, which isn't actually a word — you've fallen right into my trap. Least importantly of all, and also most obscurely, and with only minor interest or relevance to listeners of the podcast and readers of this paragraph, we have the Functional Reactive Programming paradigm originally coined by Conor Oberst and then coopted by rapscallions who waste time down by the pier playing marbles. FoC Challenge: Can you come up with a programming where informal reasoning doesn't help? Where you are lost, you are without hope, and you need to get some kind of help other than reasoning to get through it? Linear B LinearB Intercal Esolangs FoC Challenge: Can you come up with a kind of testing where using a particular set of inputs does tell you something about the system/component when it is given a different set of inputs? It was not Epimenides who said “You can't dip your little toesies into the same stream” two times — presumably because he only said it once. Zig has a nicely explicit approach to memory allocation. FoC Challenge: A programming where more things are explicit — building on the example of Zig's explicit allocators. Non-ergonomic, Non-von Neumann, Nonagon Infinity One of Ivan's favourite musical acts of the 00s is the ever-shapeshifting Animal Collective — of course
This is the seventh installment of the ongoing live series with Wendy Nash inquiring into meditation practice on and off the cushion. With the coming of spring in the Northern hemisphere we talked: We also get various meditation questions and comments from participants Wendy also mentions Dream Yoga: Illuminating Your Life Through Lucid Dreaming andContinue reading "Changeability And Newness | March 30, 2023 “Meditation Q & A With Wendy Nash” #07"
Torsten Schlautman ist Geschäftsführer, Melanie Deutschmann Change Coach und Organisations-Entwicklerin bei OPITZ Consulting, einem IT-Dienstleister mit 500 Mitarbeitern. Im Podcast sprechen wir über Veränderungskompetenz und wie es gelingt, (d)eine Organisation gut durch Veränderungen zu führen.
Tom Cowrie has told Melbourne Age readers that "Melbourne's dams are full to the brim - but don't go having 20 minute showers". Pointing to floods up and down Australia's east coast and overflowing dams, climate deniers present what they feel as they feel is "bullet proof" evidence and rest their argument upon the early 2000s statement by Climate Council member Professor Tim Flannery (pictured), who said our dams would never fill again. Rather, it underlines the changeability of our weather under a warming world. And illustrating the damage emerging from a warming earth, reporter Farrah Tomazin has told Sydney Morning Herald readers that "Florida damage among worst in U.S. history as Hurricane Ian lands in South Carolina". --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/robert-mclean/message
The Leap Year - Part VI 1. "Constancy"; "Changeability" 2. Remozim in a Leap Year
This episode is the second half of a discussion between Paul Craven & Gerald Ashley. If you haven't listened to the first half (
Susan Harper, founder of Continuum Montage, creates experiential contexts for perception and movement awareness, and creative expression. Susan and Sharon discuss how to engage the world as if for the first time through “eyes of wonder”, and how to find the safety required to take the risks involved in meeting the unknown. Continuummontage.com
Tisha Morris is a feng shui expert, best-selling author, and life coach. Tisha and Sharon discuss the relationship between your home, your body, and your life. Tisha tells how to create change in your life through clearing and rearranging your home environment, including clearing your clutter. Earthhome.tv
Dale Bell and Harry Wiland, co-founders of Media Policy Center, are award-winning documentary filmmakers, media producers, and agents of social change. Dale, Harry and Sharon discuss the role media plays in inspiring social change, and their particular model for transforming inspiration into action steps on behalf of essential issues such as: greener cities, the VW emissions scandal, and elder care. Mediapolicenter.org
Have you felt immobilized by the results of this presidential election? Shut down? Off-balance? Somatic psychologist and trauma specialist, Amber Gray, talks with Sharon Weil about how real and imagined terror and fear affect the body, creating either a shutting down response or an impulse towards fight or flight action. She provides essential and helpful insight and tools for finding calm, restoration, and a return to mobility and social engagement after difficult events. These tools apply to any stressful, shocking, or life-altering change. Listen and find comfort in her words.
Wendy Hammers is an outrageous, outspoken, spoken-word artist and champion. As an actress, writer, stand up comic, teacher and the producer of the long-running Tasty Words spoken-word salon in Los Angeles, she presents hilarious, heartwarming, and heartbreaking stories of personal change. A good story is an interaction between the storyteller and the witness that will transform each of them. A funny story quickly provides an unexpected prospective. She spoke with Sharon Weil about creating community, the empowerment of storytelling, and the healing properties at the core of both. If you like this episode, you might enjoy "Creative Translation" with Jackie Welch Schlicher. https://soundcloud.com/sharon-weil/creative-translation-jackie-welch-schlicher-with-sharon-weil
Lorin Roche, PhD is an eclectic meditation master, teacher, and the author of many books, including the acclaimed The Radiance Sutras. Having studied meditation traditions from all over the world, he offers embodied meditation practices for 21st century women and men. He talks with Sharon Weil about the primacy and the simplicity of meditation in order to be more adaptive to change. Lorin says there are many portals to meditation, and a meditation practice can be individual and should be joyous, according to a person’s desires and tendencies. He speaks about how to enter meditation through the senses, not by “quieting the mind.” Listen for an entirely new kind of invitation into deep rest, full presence, and meditation. If you like this episode, you might enjoy "The Anatomy of Anxiety" with Robert Litman. https://soundcloud.com/sharon-weil/the-anatomy-of-anxiety-robert-litman-with-sharon-weil
Paul Loeb, social and political activist, discusses integration and change with John Weeks, integrative medicine practitioner.
Jackie Welch-Schlicher and Rebecca Mark are both artists who have mastered the art of listening deeply, receptivity and response, and playing with the magic of the unexpected. Each of them uses “an open hand” when crafting their work, which allows the artistic expression to reflect the improvisational nature of life. The practice of trust rather than control, receiving rather than forcing, keeps the work fresh and alive no matter what the form or task.
Amber Gray and Fred Sugerman use body-based therapies and practices to inspire hope and change. New possibilities for health, healing, well-being, and pleasure rather than pain, can be discovered through movement, new sensations, and the unwinding of old and painful patterns. When we can reframe our felt experience, we can Have Hope for new outcomes. Listen to how.
Nature is change. Permaculture experts Penny Livingston-Stark and James Stark explore how to facilitate change with more ease when we Align with Nature. The natural world provides all the examples and support we need to adapt to any changing circumstance, both internal and external, real or in metaphor; whether we dwell in the forest or in the middle of the city.
Jacques Verduin and Robert Litman work with bringing awareness to every moment in very different settings. Jacques Verduin is a leader in restorative justice working in prisons, Robert Litman is a breath and movement educator working with clients, many of whom suffer from asthma, anxiety, or other breathing disorders. Their discussion is a lively exploration of how the simplicity of breath and sense awareness is the beginning of any journey to change.
Meditation mentor, Camille Maurine, and intuitive astrologer, Rachel Lang, Spark Fire as they discuss passion, pleasure, and finding your purpose. Uncovering your passion motivates action that can burn through fear, reluctance, and ambivalence. Riding the wild currents of your own passion requires a play of both courage and tenderness. Listen to find out how.
Deena Metzger and Amanda Foulger engage with community in every aspect of the healing and teaching work they each do. The support needed for change comes from both seen and unseen communities: helpful people, ancestor spirits, plant and animal spirit guides. In walking hundreds of people through transformative change, Deena and Amanda share how they teach others how to locate the multi-dimensional support they need, and to trust the support they receive.
Russ and my interview with writer Sharon Weil was interesting, fun and very informative. If you have yet to read Sharon's book, Changeability', it's a book you may want to pick up.
Diese Folge zeigt auf, wie der Umgang mit Disruption sowie mit den zukünftigen Schlüsselkompetenzen für Erfolg, Veränderungs- und Innovationsfähigkeit Erfolg ermöglichen kann. Warum lösen sich erfolgreiche Geschäftsmodelle über Nacht in Nichts auf? Wie müssen wir uns, unser Verhalten, unsere Kultur und unseren Führungsstil verändern? Wie entwickeln wir Strategien und Innovationen, die in disruptiven Umfeldbedingungen erfolgreich sind und wie transformieren wir unser Geschäftsmodell und unser Unternehmen? Themen in der Folge: - Disruption - Erfolg war gestern - Eckpfeiler zukünftiger Geschäftsmodelle - "ChangeAbility" als Schlüsselkompetenz - Entwicklung erfolgreicher Geschäftsmodelle von morgen - Erfolgsgeheimnisse der Disruptoren entschlüsselt - Wie rette ich mein Unternehmen? Was? Wer? Warum? Aufbruch nach übermorgen für den Kopf! Inspiration und Impulse für das Verwandeln von Chancen in Erfolge. Der Podcast mit Mehrwert für Unternehmer, Top-Entscheider und alle mit Interesse an Strategie & strategischer Veränderung mit Christian H. D. Haak, einem der führenden Experten auf diesem Gebiet. Wie erfinden wir uns und unsere Geschäftsmodelle neu und wie setzen wir diese erfolgreich und nachhaltig um? Menschen bewegen. Dem Wandel voraus.
We live in a time of fast moving and complex change on both the personal and the global level. Welcome or unwelcome, nothing is more certain than the constant and uncertain movement of change. Whether change is met with excitement or met with fear, we can easily become overwhelmed by all of that movement. How do we keep upbeat, optimistic and forward-moving? "ChangeAbility" is the ability to effectively navigate change with more ease. In THE CHANGEABILITY PLAYBOOK, author Sharon Weil walks you through the personal and public changes of your own life and helps you find new approaches in meeting those changes. She teaches you how to locate yourself in change, and how to use her Seven Principles for Change to bring you new ideas and choices in navigating change. Based on Weil’s acclaimed podcast, Passing 4 Normal: Conversations with Authors, Artists, Activists and Awakeners about Seeding Change in the World, and Sharon's previous book ChangeAbility: How Artists, Activists and Awakeners Navigate Change, this new book weaves together the insight, humor, compassion and hard-earned wisdom of those who have mastered the art of ChangeAbility in a wide range of applied experiences. Sharon Weil has long been engaged in the conversation about courage and change as an author, activist, award-winning filmmaker, and somatic educator. She is the author of Donny and Ursula Save the World, a political, romantic mishap-adventure; and the host of the acclaimed podcast Passing 4 Normal.
Changemanagement ist zu langsam geworden. In einer Welt des disruptiven Wandels müssen Unternehmen ihre Grundbeweglichkeit erhöhen. Agile Ansätze können helfen, sich schneller an veränderte Märkte und Kundenwünsche anzupassen. Doch Unternehmen wenden sie oft zu oberflächlich an. Wie sich Agilität tief in der Organisation verankern lässt.
Changemanagement ist zu langsam geworden. In einer Welt des disruptiven Wandels müssen Unternehmen ihre Grundbeweglichkeit erhöhen. Agile Ansätze können helfen, sich schneller an veränderte Märkte und Kundenwünsche anzupassen. Doch Unternehmen wenden sie oft zu oberflächlich an. Wie sich Agilität tief in der Organisation verankern lässt.
Changemanagement ist zu langsam geworden. In einer Welt des disruptiven Wandels müssen Unternehmen ihre Grundbeweglichkeit erhöhen. Agile Ansätze können helfen, sich schneller an veränderte Märkte und Kundenwünsche anzupassen. Doch Unternehmen wenden sie oft zu oberflächlich an. Wie sich Agilität tief in der Organisation verankern lässt.
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Dr. Katrina Burrus interviews Kathryn Bryant and asks her: Why is change hard? Why do we all need 'changeability? How did you come to start Brilliant Living HQ What is the upside of change? Who is Kathryn Bryant Kathryn Bryant is co-founder of BrilliantLivingHQ.com, promoting mind management to help people have their best life and business. She is co-host of the award winning ‘Changeability Podcast’ listened to in 164 countries, and best-selling Amazon author of ‘Changeability: Manage your Mind – Change your Life’ – a framework of techniques for making changes in life. Kathryn’s newest project is ‘Podcast Divas’ aimed at inspiring and educating more women to become podcasters. Prior to this Kathryn spent 10 years in non-departmental government agencies working on 14-19 education and funding policy. Roles included Young People’s Learning Director for the East of England at the Learning and Skills Council, and Learner Services Director for the National Apprenticeship Service. This followed 4 years as a research fellow pioneering online tutoring and helping business owners understand new technology. Kathryn previously worked in hospitality and pub management and had businesses in retail, sports and property management.
Lorin Roche, PhD is an eclectic meditation master, teacher, and the author of many books, including the acclaimed The Radiance Sutras. Having studied meditation traditions from all over the world, he offers embodied meditation practices for 21st century women and men. He talks with Sharon Weil about the primacy and the simplicity of meditation in order to be more adaptive to change. Lorin says there are many portals to meditation, and a meditation practice can be individual and should be joyous, according to a person’s desires and tendencies. He speaks about how to enter meditation through the senses, not by “quieting the mind.” Listen for an entirely new kind of invitation into deep rest, full presence, and meditation. If you like this episode, you might enjoy "The Anatomy of Anxiety" with Robert Litman. https://soundcloud.com/sharon-weil/the-anatomy-of-anxiety-robert-litman-with-sharon-weil
Wendy Hammers is an outrageous, outspoken, spoken-word artist and champion. As an actress, writer, stand up comic, teacher and the producer of the long-running Tasty Words spoken-word salon in Los Angeles, she presents hilarious, heartwarming, and heartbreaking stories of personal change. A good story is an interaction between the storyteller and the witness that will transform each of them. A funny story quickly provides an unexpected prospective. She spoke with Sharon Weil about creating community, the empowerment of storytelling, and the healing properties at the core of both. If you like this episode, you might enjoy "Creative Translation" with Jackie Welch Schlicher. https://soundcloud.com/sharon-weil/creative-translation-jackie-welch-schlicher-with-sharon-weil
Have you felt immobilized by the results of this presidential election? Shut down? Off-balance? Somatic psychologist and trauma specialist, Amber Gray, talks with Sharon Weil about how real and imagined terror and fear affect the body, creating either a shutting down response or an impulse towards fight or flight action. She provides essential and helpful insight and tools for finding calm, restoration, and a return to mobility and social engagement after difficult events. These tools apply to any stressful, shocking, or life-altering change. Listen and find comfort in her words.
Dale Bell and Harry Wiland, co-founders of Media Policy Center, are award-winning documentary filmmakers, media producers, and agents of social change. Dale, Harry and Sharon discuss the role media plays in inspiring social change, and their particular model for transforming inspiration into action steps on behalf of essential issues such as: greener cities, the VW emissions scandal, and elder care. Mediapolicenter.org
Sharon Weil talks about how to find balance after this shocking election. She applies the principles of ChangeAbility to this enormous, surprising, and potentially dangerous change. First we must acknowledge what has happened and acknowledge our grief, rest and restore our balance, gather in community, find new strategies, find common values, and work like crazy on behalf of what we dearly love. Listen and find strength. With guest host, Rachel Lang.
Tisha Morris is a feng shui expert, best-selling author, and life coach. Tisha and Sharon discuss the relationship between your home, your body, and your life. Tisha tells how to create change in your life through clearing and rearranging your home environment, including clearing your clutter. Earthhome.tv
Susan Harper, founder of Continuum Montage, continues her conversation with Sharon – this time speaking about creating Living Ritual. These are contexts designed to shift consciousness from the habitual into a much larger perspective and experience of the possibility of interconnected living. Through participation with the elements, dreams, and living symbols, these contexts open doors to personal understanding, making the unknown more visible, and allowing meaningful change to occur. Continuummontage.com
Susan Harper, founder of Continuum Montage, creates experiential contexts for perception and movement awareness, and creative expression. Susan and Sharon discuss how to engage the world as if for the first time through “eyes of wonder”, and how to find the safety required to take the risks involved in meeting the unknown. Continuummontage.com
Sharon Weil, author of ChangeAbility, in conversation with Joan Stanford, author of The Art of Play
Carol Miller, author of Every Moment of a Fall, in conversation with Sharon Weil, author of ChangeAbility
Sharon Weil, author of ChangeAbility, in conversation with Sam Polk, author of For the Love of Money, published by Scribner (July 2016).
Live Live Thrive is a women's Empowerment hour featuring women who are doing amazing work in the world to inspire others to do the same. Producer 360 Karma's ideology is about women helping women so as to catapult females into more positions of influence
Paul Loeb, social and political activist, discusses integration and change with John Weeks, integrative medicine practitioner.
Sharon Weil, author of ChangeAbility, in conversation with Judith Hannan, author of The Write Prescription.
Jackie Welch-Schlicher and Rebecca Mark are both artists who have mastered the art of listening deeply, receptivity and response, and playing with the magic of the unexpected. Each of them uses “an open hand” when crafting their work, which allows the artistic expression to reflect the improvisational nature of life. The practice of trust rather than control, receiving rather than forcing, keeps the work fresh and alive no matter what the form or task.
Jackie Welch-Schlicher and Rebecca Mark are both artists who have mastered the art of listening deeply, receptivity and response, and playing with the magic of the unexpected. Each of them uses “an open hand” when crafting their work, which allows the artistic expression to reflect the improvisational nature of life. The practice of trust rather than control, receiving rather than forcing, keeps the work fresh and alive no matter what the form or task.
Jackie Welch-Schlicher and Rebecca Mark are both artists who have mastered the art of listening deeply, receptivity and response, and playing with the magic of the unexpected. Each of them uses “an open hand” when crafting their work, which allows the artistic expression to reflect the improvisational nature of life. The practice of trust rather than control, receiving rather than forcing, keeps the work fresh and alive no matter what the form or task.
The Changeability Podcast past and future We celebrate 100 episodes as we take a look at the Changeability Podcast past and future. Here’s some of the top 3s from the past 99 episodes followed by a look at the next episode in the Changeability Podcast story. Audience top 3 episodes The 3 favourite episodes of our audience to date. These are the shows with the highest number of downloads so far. The longer the episode’s been on iTunes or our BrilliantLivingHQ.com website or Stitcher or TuneIn the longer people have had to listen to it, so we would expect the older shows to have more downloads than newer ones and that’s reflected in these results. Third most popular episode - ‘What is Mind Management’ Episode 6 In episode 6 of the Changeability Podcast we were thinking about our strap line phrase – ‘Mind Management’. What is mind management and what’s in it for you? In episode 6 you found out about: Kathryn and Julian’s acting skills (you’ve been warned) How many thoughts you have in a day Why sports people love mind management How thoughts have energy How you are not thoughts How mind management needs training Mind management can improve your personal and professional life Second most popular episode - ‘The Brilliant You’ Episode 2 Do you know how truly amazing you are? Well that’s what episode 2 is all about. You might not always feel like a magnificent being, but by the end of this second episode you be agreeing with us that you’re pretty smart. Because in this show we talk about just how brilliant you and your marvellous mind and what it means. What you’re doing as you listen to the episode (really?) How you’re like an iceberg and why that’s a good thing. How many things we can focus on at a time What Julian learnt from a Memory World Champion (or rather - didn’t learn!) The role of the conscious and unconscious brain and how they manage our minds. Understanding a few basics about how your mind works, will help you understand what’s getting in the way of doing what you want and what to do about it. Most popular episode - ‘Changeability – The Start’ Episode 1 The first episode saw us introducing ourselves and the Changeability show. The Changeability podcast is for you if you’re interested in changing or improving something in your life or business, big or small. It’s for people like us who’re interested in finding ways to make our lives the best they can be – so we can be more successful (whatever that means to you), happy and fulfilled. Through discussion and interviews we look at practical mind management and change techniques, tactics & tools - taken from the worlds of personal development, psychology, neuroscience, business, sport, entertainment and spirituality – to empower and inspire a happier, successful life or business. In the first episode you find out: What is Changeability? And why should you care about it? Why is change hard? How we can self-sabotage our best intentions Why it’s not your fault - and why it’s good. Our story and what we’ve learnt Top 3 countries We love you being here wherever you’re from – so this isn’t our favourite countries – but rather the top 3 countries with the highest number of listeners out of the 167 countries we currently have listeners in. Third – UAE 6% Second – USA 19% First – UK 48% (And just in cast you’re interested the fourth is Australia with India in fifth place.) Kathryn and Julian’s favourites This was so hard to choose, especially as we decided not to include any interviews in our top 3s (maybe they’re deserving of a separate post) – but here’s three each with a couple of extras thrown in for good measure. Kathryn’s favourites Episode 3 – The Library in your brain Episode 19 - Why use affirmations to manage your mind? Episode 31 – 5 mind management techniques for changing your life. Julian’s favourites Episode 43 – What is mindfulness and why you need it? Episode 46 - 21 simple tips for mindfulness meditation. Episode 56 What is happiness and the neuroscience behind it Couple of extras Episode 85 How to recognise toxic people and relationships Episode 89 What does success mean to you 3 of our favourite reviews on iTunes Very hard to pick 3 out of the 78 we have so far across the different iTunes countries as we obviously love them all. So we can’t really call these our favourites but they are reviews we’ve especially like. Excellent - iimmmii from United Kingdom One of the best ‘change your life’ resources I’ve come across. If you like to understand the theory and evidence (be it scientific or anecdotal) behind advice on how to change your life, this material is presented in an engaging way in this podcast. Of course they also make recommendations for how best to go about taking action. A few episodes in and you will feel like you’ve made two new friends who are supporting you on your journey of change. Well done Kathryn and Julian, listening to you makes me proud to be from the same Sceptred Isle! A Homely Serving Up of Sound Advice/Wisdom - Ola-B. from United Kingdom Where has this amazing couple been all my life?! :) Love Kathryn, love Julian, and let's not forget Dude!!! Love this podcast - the topics, the delivery of it all...it's simply unique, uplifting and inspiring! Thank you guys! Kathryn and Julian's chemistry rocks! - LornaLi from United States I love the concept of this show! It's so unique and refreshing! I absolutely LOVE the hosts' chemistry - their exchanges are such a joy to listen to. Thank you for all the useful tips you provide to your listeners on how to plan and achieve their goals, I'm sure many are reaping so many benefits from this show! Thank you to you for taking the effort and making our day. By the way – we’d love more reviews. We don’t always ask for them in every episode as it gets tedious for you to listen to – and we want to provide you with a good listening experience. However, reviews are important to us not only because it’s great to find out what you think but it means iTunes makes our show more visible to people looking for podcasts. You know yourself the power of reviews on sites like Tripadvisor and Amazon – so if you feel like helping us out that’s one way to do it. Dude’s top 3 Who’s been with us all through every single episode and every phase of the podcasting process – in fact he’s always with us – Dude the Dog, our faithful hound and black labradoodle. We’ve joked we have a contractual obligation to mention him in every show – not that we’ve quite done that but he’s had more than his fair share of mentions and even made it onto the show on a few occasions. So here’s Dude’s top 3 favourite Changeability Podcast moments as chosen by him (woof). Episode 83 ‘Self-love Rituals’ – The 10th of our self-love rituals is to have Pet Time. Walk, cuddle, play with or groom your dog or cat or talk to your budgerigar. You might not get this if you don’t have a pet – but if you do have one you’ll know what we mean! Episode 63 ‘How to start and finish anything with Tom Boother’ – Dude features in a cameo role when Tom starts talking about Dude and how they met! Episode 98 ‘What are habits and why we need them’ – Dude gets his own moment in the spotlight. You’ll have to listen to this episode to know what we mean, or just listen to episode 100 to hear the extract. Our top 3 bloomers You wont know what we’re talking about here if you’ve never listened right to the end of our shows – but listen to episode 100 to hear 3 of them for your entertainment – and why they’re called Kathryn’s bloomers! 3 lessons we’ve learned from creating 100 episodes of the Changeability Podcast Here’s just 3 of the many things we’ve learned from creating 100 episodes of this podcast over the past two years, and they’re all relevant to you. You can’t always measure your impact Sometimes it’s hard to measure your impact – this goes for measuring the success of a podcast or many things. How do you measure your success or the impact you have? On the whole people don’t tell you and it’s not always possible to make a connection e.g. between who’s listened to the podcast and who’s visited the website or bought an Affirmation or audio mind management tool or a course like our ‘Beginner’s guide to mindfulness meditation’. That’s not to say there aren’t any clues. Ways of gauging if we’re having a positive impact include comments in our FB group or page and reviews on Stitcher or iTunes. Plus nomination for national / international podcast awards – being a finalist for the New Media Europe Audience Appreciation Award and winner of the UK Podcaster’s Best Self Help Podcast Award. But the truth of it is that for the thousands of our podcast listeners each month, for the most part it’s hard know the difference, if any, it makes to them. Does that matter? Yes and no. Yes because from a resource and business perspective it’s helpful to have a handle on the impact but also no because sometimes it’s not just possible to know but that doesn’t make it any less valuable. This is an important lesson for us all because you don’t always know the impact of what you do in your work, relationships and everyday life – but that in itself doesn’t mean you should stop what you do. Stickability and focus Creating 100 episodes of a podcast, especially one like this, is an achievement. This is an important lesson for us and maybe also you as well. When we do something consistently and with focus it creates results. We may not know the full impact of those results but there are some clear results for us. 100 episodes of a podcast are out there in the world being listened to in 167 countries. 100 blog posts which are the show notes on this website. Winners of a national podcast award and finalists for another. All of which is the result of focus and stickability – week by week. And now we have this body of work that is out there in the world whatever happens in the future – no-one can take that away from us. This goes for you as well – what is it you want to achieve? A new skill, producing something, writing a book, starting your own podcast, setting up a business. Whatever it is clarity, consistency, stickability and focus is the key. Review evaluate and change The third lesson for us has been learning the importance of reviewing and evaluating what you’re doing. We’ve been doing just that with our podcast as 100 seems a good point to do so. We’ve been looking back on the experience of the past two years, learning from it and making changes. This is something we advocate for you too. It’s about being deliberate about what you do rather than just carrying on doing the same thing because that’s what you do or what people expect of you. It might be a matter of fine-tuning and pivot or of big changes. For us it’s meant reviewing our experience, going right back to why we started Brilliant Living HQ in the first place. In fact going back further than that to why we wanted to make the big change in leaving our previous careers. Sometimes it’s good to remind yourself why you’re doing what you’re doing. One of the things we always said was that we wanted more control over our time and to spend time doing what we want to do, and more time for ourselves. We know that time is a resource, even our most precious resource. So to put these two things together we’ve been looking at how we spend our time and efforts, in effect the resources we put into the podcast – that’s the review bit. Next came the evaluation. Is the balance right? This is a challenging one for us because we love doing the podcast, which means it’s always high on our list of priorities, together with the schedule we set ourselves and the way we create our show. Review, evaluate and make changes in the light of your experience to make sure you’re always taking control of your own path. That’s what we’ve done – and to see what changing we come to the future. The future The result of our thinking about what we’ve done and what we want to do is that we love the podcast and you the listeners, so we’re going to continue with it but take a break over the summer for a few weeks. We’re taking this short break for an exciting reason, because when we return at the beginning of September we’ll have the Changeability Success Club. We’re taking the next few weeks to get this exciting club ready for you. We’re ordering the carpets and curtains, mowing the lawn, changing the beds, only joking, it’s an online club to take the things we talk about on the Changeability podcast and make them a reality in your life. With everything you could want and need to help you make changes in your life alongside a great community of people like you to support each other. More on that very soon, but for now we wanted to let you know it’s coming. We’re putting a lot of love and time into creating what we believe will be the best online club for you to become a member of. We’ve been working on it behind the scenes for a while now and now we want to put a special effort into the final push to get it ready for opening the doors. We’ve been making videos and templates and downloadable tools including special audio tools to help you not only get clear about what you want but also give you the tools and support to make it happen – all within our special membership club for those of you who join us. So we’re taking the next few weeks to get it ready for you and when we come back it will be here. We’ll have one hundred places ready – it’s going to be really special and we can’t wait to share it with you. So exciting! What to do next Subscribe to the podcast so you’re notified when the next episode goes live and you wont miss it. Get on our email list if you’re not on it already. That way you’ll be amongst the first to know when the Changeability Success Club goes live and get a chance to grab one of the first 100 places as soon as they are available. And if by any chance you think you might miss us over the next few weeks: There’s plenty of podcast episodes to catch up on - 99 of them to be precise. Why not start with the ones mentioned in the show today? There’s lots to read on this site. Follow us on Twitter, like our Brilliant Living HQ FB page and ask to be notified of updates, and join the Changeability FB group. Thanks for being here and listening to the show and we look forward to talking again soon.
Amber Gray and Fred Sugerman use body-based therapies and practices to inspire hope and change. New possibilities for health, healing, well-being, and pleasure rather than pain, can be discovered through movement, new sensations, and the unwinding of old and painful patterns. When we can reframe our felt experience, we can Have Hope for new outcomes. Listen to how.
Amber Gray and Fred Sugerman use body-based therapies and practices to inspire hope and change. New possibilities for health, healing, well-being, and pleasure rather than pain, can be discovered through movement, new sensations, and the unwinding of old and painful patterns. When we can reframe our felt experience, we can Have Hope for new outcomes. Listen to how.
Jacques Verduin and Robert Litman work with bringing awareness to every moment in very different settings. Jacques Verduin is a leader in restorative justice working in prisons, Robert Litman is a breath and movement educator working with clients, many of whom suffer from asthma, anxiety, or other breathing disorders. Their discussion is a lively exploration of how the simplicity of breath and sense awareness is the beginning of any journey to change.
Jacques Verduin and Robert Litman work with bringing awareness to every moment in very different settings. Jacques Verduin is a leader in restorative justice working in prisons, Robert Litman is a breath and movement educator working with clients, many of whom suffer from asthma, anxiety, or other breathing disorders. Their discussion is a lively exploration of how the simplicity of breath and sense awareness is the beginning of any journey to change.
Nature is change. Permaculture experts Penny Livingston-Stark and James Stark explore how to facilitate change with more ease when we Align with Nature. The natural world provides all the examples and support we need to adapt to any changing circumstance, both internal and external, real or in metaphor; whether we dwell in the forest or in the middle of the city.
Nature is change. Permaculture experts Penny Livingston-Stark and James Stark explore how to facilitate change with more ease when we Align with Nature. The natural world provides all the examples and support we need to adapt to any changing circumstance, both internal and external, real or in metaphor; whether we dwell in the forest or in the middle of the city.
Meditation mentor, Camille Maurine, and intuitive astrologer, Rachel Lang, Spark Fire as they discuss passion, pleasure, and finding your purpose. Uncovering your passion motivates action that can burn through fear, reluctance, and ambivalence. Riding the wild currents of your own passion requires a play of both courage and tenderness. Listen to find out how.
Meditation mentor, Camille Maurine, and intuitive astrologer, Rachel Lang, Spark Fire as they discuss passion, pleasure, and finding your purpose. Uncovering your passion motivates action that can burn through fear, reluctance, and ambivalence. Riding the wild currents of your own passion requires a play of both courage and tenderness. Listen to find out how.
Deena Metzger and Amanda Foulger engage with community in every aspect of the healing and teaching work they each do. The support needed for change comes from both seen and unseen communities: helpful people, ancestor spirits, plant and animal spirit guides. In walking hundreds of people through transformative change, Deena and Amanda share how they teach others how to locate the multi-dimensional support they need, and to trust the support they receive.
Deena Metzger and Amanda Foulger engage with community in every aspect of the healing and teaching work they each do. The support needed for change comes from both seen and unseen communities: helpful people, ancestor spirits, plant and animal spirit guides. In walking hundreds of people through transformative change, Deena and Amanda share how they teach others how to locate the multi-dimensional support they need, and to trust the support they receive.
What the heck is wellbeing? Here at Brilliant Living HQ and our Changeability Podcast we’re all about helping you and us manage our minds to make changes and have more success and our best life and business. As well as looking at mind management techniques and processes to do this, we thought it would be fun and hopefully helpful to look at some of the key areas of life that many of us want to do something about. Earlier this year we did a series of podcasts and posts about relationships and today we start thinking about wellness and wellbeing. “Everything that brings us well being is achieved through allowing ourselves to flow with life and be in harmony. Pain happens, it is our attachment to the pain and our resistance to change that causes suffering.” Alaric Hutchinson Today is a beautiful day. It’s the first week of May and spring has sprung here in our little corner of England. The evenings are light and the days getting longer every day. The sunshine is making us feel better and it’s amazing the difference it makes. In fact we could say it’s increasing our sense of wellbeing - it certainly feels like that to us. But what the heck is wellbeing? What does wellbeing and wellness mean to us? This notion of wellbeing seems to be everywhere, in the work-place, in magazines, all over the internet, in fact there is a whole wellness and wellbeing industry out there. Wellbeing is big business. It’s a world populated by spas, therapists, therapies, fitness, gyms, dancing, exercise classes, weight loss, relaxation, supplements, closely associated to the health industry and being in a healthy state. Wellness is the manifestation of wellbeing. Wellbeing is a particular way or specific state of being encompassing many different aspects such as: Body and physical health Mental and psychological wellbeing Emotional wellbeing Economic wellbeing Social wellbeing Psychologists, economists and policy makers are all interested in wellbeing and try to measure it, so they can use it to understand more about populations and the policies needed in the future. While our focus at Brilliant Living HQ and in the Changeability mind-work is on mind management, it doesn’t mean we ignore the physical or body side of things. The two are totally entwined. We know this is area where lots of us want to change things – and that’s great because we believe mind management is key to making those changes, as much as it is to making any changes in life or business. Is it an area you want to change? Ask yourself if your level of wellbeing is having an impact on your life, work, business, interests, family or relationships? Mind body and spirit When we talk about wellness in terms of Brilliant Living, we see wellbeing encompassing body, mind and spirit. For us it has to be a holistic definition and approach to wellbeing that takes all three elements into account. How do you define wellbeing? What the heck does wellbeing mean to you? We asked our Changeability Facebook Group and is what two of our members told us: ‘Giving your body what it needs (fuel, movement, rest and recovery) self care, connection, emotional support/nurturance... Just some ideas off the top of my head
6 ways to measure success Have you thought about what success looks like to you? If so, how do you measure your success? Actually the first question is – do you need to to measure success? We say yes. One, because when you measure your success it makes you think about it. What is success and what does it mean to you? It makes you aware of what you want in life or business, rather than wandering aimlessly. Two, it gives you something to aim for, and we know that as humans we thrive and are generally happier and more fulfilled when we have a sense of purpose. Three, what gets measured gets done. It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement — that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life.” ~ Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents So how do you measure success? That depends on the sort of success it is. Here’s 6 ways to measure success – or 6 different types of success and our (some obvious and some not so obvious) suggestions of how to measure them. Academic success Test results, marked work, grades Qualifications success at taking tests or being good at exams a test of memory a specific skill or ability such as art or sport Ability to reason Create a coherent argument Work and career success Salary Title Promotion Status Achievements Bottom line –sales, bonuses Social impact Business success Number of products produced Number of products or services sold Success statistics according to the industry e.g. online - the number of website visitors or signups; podcasting - the number of downloads and listeners The ultimate measure of success is business is profit – with the possible exception of social enterprises. Body, health and fitness success Weight including: calories consumed in a day weight loss and gain Body measurements Percentage of Fat Cholesterol, blood pressure etc. Fitness Number of repetitions weight lifted time spent running distance covered number of visits to the gym or sports played in a week Inches lost or gained % of fat or blood pressure or cholesterol reduced Softer measures increased self-esteem and confidence look good feel stronger and fitter, able to walk further or do more Lifestyle Experiences Travel – locations, time away holidays Making enough money to support travel lifestyle hobbies experiences you want Enough money to live where and how you want e.g. on a beach for a year like a digital nomad It’s a different way of measuring success but just as valid and maybe more fun Love and Relationships Number of years in a relationship or anniversaries reached Love hard to define and therefore hard to measure Something to do with feelings and compatibility Happy family Number of friends or people in your networks (although can be superficial) Episode 90 of The Changeability Podcast Hear us talk more about this in episode 90 of the Changeability Podcast Links Get your free Changeability Starter Kit at com Or buy the Changeability book at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk Thank you for listening and reading this. If you like the show, please go to iTunes now and leave us a review – we will love you for it.
WHY do you need mind management? What do you want to change in your life? Do you want more or less of something or to learn a new skill or experience different things? Or do you want to change something about your relationships or body or work or finances? It doesn’t have to mean you hate your life or work now – but you just want it to be better in some way. Yes, we all want changes but WHY do we need mind management to do it. ‘Life management begins with mind management. The quality of your life is influenced by the quality of your thoughts.’ Robin Sharma Your marvellous mind Your brain is amazing and has enormous power. Its big job is to keep you alive and it does that by keeping you safe which tends to mean maintaining the status quo – because that’s what’s worked so far. This is fabulous for keeping you alive – but it’s not always so fabulous when you want to make changes – in other words you want to move away from the status quo in some way. It’s important to know that although you think you make your decisions and plans – including what you want to change – much of your thought processes go on at an unconscious level and decisions are made without you being aware of them much of the time. It has to do this. We have control over the conscious part of your mind, and although amazing, your conscious mind has limitations. It loses focus easily and typically holds about 7 chunks of information at any one time. This is why the subconscious takes control of most of what’s happening in our bodies. It’s the engine driving us – leaving our conscious mind to focus on other things. Changing your mind This is critically important when we want to make changes, because your unconscious mind, which is a million times more powerful than your conscious mind, is running the show. And it does much of this based on the beliefs and habits you’ve built up over your lifetime – not all of which are serving you well. Both parts of your mind are crucial not only to survival but also to getting the changes and living the life you want. The real trick is to get them working together to make this happen. This enables you to use the whole of your marvellous mind brain to work for you and not against you –otherwise it’s all to easy to end up self-sabotaging what you want to achieve. We’ve all done that! Why when you want to lose weight do you still eat the very thing that you know will not help you get the body you want? Because your mind is screaming at you that you’ve hungry and want to eat and want to eat something that tastes nice – and your belief and experience tells you that cream cakes – especially a Victoria sponge with butter cream icing – will fill you up quickly and taste nice, and you’ve had a hard day so of course you deserve a little treat. Now that might be irritating and throw you off course a little but it also happens in really important decisions and situations. You want to leave a job and set up a new business for yourself, but your subconscious is screaming at you – ‘are you mad, you’ll never make a good business person, why do you think you can do it, you never see anything through.’ Or whatever it might be for you, based on your past experience. Mind management is about becoming aware of the impact your thoughts have on yo,u and using your mind to your advantage. Your Thoughts Time to take a step back - because underlying all of this is the notion that the way we think and the thoughts we think, influence what we do. Our thoughts influence how we feel, which influences what we do or the actions we take, which impacts how we live our lives. It sounds obvious when you say it like that – but just take a moment to think about it and see if you really believe this is so or if you’re aware of it in your day to day life. The thoughts you think lead to the action you take. It therefore follows that if you change your thoughts (that’s the way you think) then you can change your actions. This means you can make the changes you want in your life, work or business. You are not your thoughts It’s a fabulous concept to accept and goes hand in hand with the concept that your thoughts are things. Your thoughts are not you and you are not your thoughts. You are not defined by your thoughts. Which means that you can change your thoughts to help you live how you want to live. That’s what we mean when we talk about mind management. We’ve been talking about why you mind management to help you make changes, but it’s not just about doing things differently. It’s also about improving the everyday experience of being alive. After all, one of the changes you could look for is to be happier in your daily life, or more enthusiastic for life. It’s not just about things, its about ‘being’ as well. And mind management is the key. Do we have to learn mind management? Yes - to a large extent we do have to learn mind management because we’ve not been taught how to manage our minds. We don’t learn it at school – although some schools teach subjects like critical thinking but that’s something different. At best, we may have learnt something about the component parts of the brain and its functions. Most of us don’t pick it up from our natural interactions with our parents, probably because they never learnt it themselves. But this is your opportunity to learn about mind management now. So what do we know about the mind? We’ve talked about the two major components of the mind being the conscious and the subconscious. And we know that our brain is in effect an information processing system, containing nerve cells (neurons) which are connected through synapses. These neural pathways are influenced and strengthened by what we do, the influences in our lives, our previous experiences, beliefs and values we have stored in our minds. And these neural networks or pathways are strengthened by repetition. One of the potential problems of the mind is that it can be consciously (by our thoughts) or unconsciously influenced (by our subconscious). And the subconscious is the more powerful. We’re suggesting you get the conscious and the subconscious to work in harmony through mind management. So there’s no dissonance or disagreement between the two component parts of the brain and between your actions and your beliefs. That is the key to getting what you want and making the changes and why you need and want mind management. We know we can influence our conscious mind – we can determine our thoughts, so we need to influence our subconscious so it aligns with the subconscious. We also know that our subconscious mind was itself programmed, and can therefore be reprogrammed, but the process is slow and incremental. The captain of your ship It’s likened to a super tanker (the subconscious) being controlled by the captain of the ship (the conscious). The captain (the conscious mind) may be in charge, but the instructions the captain give take a long while to affect and influence the super tanker that is our subconscious. But the subconscious, like the formation of any habit, including thinking habits, can be influenced through repetition. Advertising relies on this repetition of key messages to get you to believe and then buy into their product, concept or ideas. This is why you can recall adverts from years ago, even your childhood, because of the power of repetition. Particularly when you add in a few tricks of the trade to make it even more memorable, tricks incidentally we can use to our advantage in mind management terms. The bottom line is mind management will help you change what you want to change and achieve what you want to achieve. HOW to manage your mind You manage your mind by training your mind to think in certain ways – so you develop habits and ways of thinking to support change, happiness and success for you. Training your mind might sound a far out or like some sort of trickery, but all it means is using certain techniques and ways of thinking that you can develop through practice. With the result that you can improve and transform your life and business through your thoughts, self-beliefs and the action you take. What techniques help us manage our minds Key mind management techniques include: Goal setting or vision setting Affirmations Visualization Hypnosis Mindfulness and Meditation Learning and internalising new skills through repetition and practice Developing yourself through reading and writing. These are the very techniques we talk about here at Brilliant Living HQ and on the Changeability Podcast. They’re also captured into a 10 step framework which shows how they all fit together and build one on the other in the Changeability framework. You will find the full version of this written out in a logical practical step by step framework on Amazon in the book Changeability: Manage your Mind - Change your Life either in Paperback or in Kindle. This is the best place to get the full explanation and exact steps. Or you can of course listen to the last 88 episodes of the Changeability Podcast! But it will be a lot quicker to read the book! Episode 88 of the Changeability Podcast Hear us discuss all of this and more in episode 88 of the Changeability Podcast. Links Changeability: Manage your Mind - Change your Life book on Amazon Thank you Thank you for being here and being wonderful. If you like listening to the show please leave us a review on iTunes. If you’ve read the Changeability book please leave a review on Amazon.
At a recent business event I had 30 seconds to introduce myself and what I did. This is the so-called elevator pitch and it’s not as easy as you might think. Having seen how some people were struggling to get their description done in 5 minutes let alone 30 seconds it was suggested we use the quick little formula – I help …. To …. By…. I was the next one up so I sat there and said: “I help people make changes in their life or business by managing their minds”. It worked because everyone went ‘oooohhh’ and wanted to know what does that actually mean and how do you that. And it got me thinking that it's a long time since we've actually talked about what it is we actually do or rather the idea behind what we actually do. So today we're going to put that right because we’re going back to basics and thinking about what fundamentally underpins everything we talk about at Brilliant Living HQ. It’s also the subject matter of my Changeability book and underpins the whole Changeability process and practice and Brilliant Living products. It is mind management! What is mind management? The key question is what is mind management and why do we all need it. At it’s most basic level mind management is about managing your mind. Which maybe isn’t saying much – or more like it’s saying the same thing twice – there’s a nice word for that – tautology! But mind management is about managing your mind and we’re very keen on the whole idea of it. Our strap line here at Brilliant Living HQ is ‘Mind management for your best life and business’ or at least it was until we changed our site recently – we thought our logo looked better without it but maybe we should put it back somewhere so people know what it’s about! And the strapline to our podcast (and the Changeability book) is ‘Manage your Mind – Change your Life’. Why the obsession with mind management – what lies behind it? Mind management is the idea you can: ‘Harness the amazing power of your mind to help you get what you want in life.’ In other words you can reprogram or train your mind to create the right mindset to change what you don’t like into what you do like, and achieve your desires and live life to the full. “The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of mind.” ~ Wayne W. Dyer. That’s a good start, but can we define it further and look at the individual elements of ‘mind management’ to get a better working definition? How do we define mind management? The Business Dictionary defines management as: “The organisation and coordination of the activities of a business in order to achieve defined objectives.” The Merriam-Webster dictionary adds a useful extra dimension defining management as: “The act or skill of controlling and making decisions about a business.” If we take these definitions together and replace business with the mind we come up with: “Mind management - The act or skill of controlling, organising and coordinating the activities of the mind in order to (make decisions to) achieve defined objectives.” This does assume that you have already determined what you want from your life, and have a vision of your defined objectives (goals) and what you have to do to achieve them. And for us that’s where it always begins – getting clear about what you want – because there are clear mind management reasons for doing this and for using the power of your brain and mind to help you achieve those goals and the changes you want. It has to start with intention plus inspiration which equal your vision or goals. If you want to know more about that go to brillliantlivinghq.com/goals to be one of the first people to find out about our goals challenge. So that’s the management bit. Now for the second part. The Mind There are basically two major components of the mind - the conscious and the subconscious. The conscious which is the bit we’re aware of – e.g. as you’re listening to this, the thoughts you’re thinking about what you want to eat or drink or what you’re doing later or reacting to what you’re hearing. This is what we think about and what we’re aware of. We tend to think of it as us – ‘this is me’ – but there is a lot more to you than that. Your conscious mind is like the tip of the iceberg because underneath it is what’s often called your subconscious, the bit below the conscious mind. We think of it below if thinking about an iceberg – but it’s sub (as in submerged or submarine) in terms of our not being aware of it. The other name – which is probably more accurate – is the unconscious. This is the part we’re not aware of – but keeps us alive because it carries out millions of actions every day without us even thinking about it. Taken together these two components of your mind create what is in effect an information processing system whose purpose is to keep you functioning and alive. The brain and mind When we talk about our mind we’re really using the term to describe aspects of what goes on inside our brain. People often use the two terms interchangeably but they’re not really the same thing. There are different physical elements to our brain, which you can easily see in any diagram of the brain, but our mind is what goes on within that physical organ. Your mind is where your consciousness and personality are. It’s a a bit like the software inside a computer. The brain is the hardware and the mind the software. But it’s not as straightforward as that as our thoughts are the result of our experiences and interpretations and feelings – so it’s more mixed. Essentially our brains contain nerve cells (called neurons) that are connected through synapses. This is how thoughts are formed. These neural networks or pathways can be and are strengthened by repetition. Likewise, these pathways can be consciously and unconsciously influenced and strengthened by what we do, by the influences in our lives, by the previous experiences, beliefs and values we have stored in our minds. This is not only one of the facets or characteristics of how your mind works but is also one of the reasons why we need and want to manage our minds. Next week we’ll be exploring this further when we talk more about exactly why you really do want mind management to be an everyday part of your life. Changeability If really can’t wait until next week to learn more – then you will find it all neatly explained in my book Changeability: Manage your Mind – Change your Life - together with a 10 step logical framework of ten practical mind management techniques, you can start using right away. Get it here now (and it’s on special offer this week!) Episode 87 of the Changeability Podcast You can hear us talking about this and more in episode 87 of the Changeability Podcast. Links: Join our free Changeability private Facebook group Like our Brilliant Living HQ Facebook page and keep up to date Get on our mailing list to find out what we’re up to Buy the book of our mind management program Changeability: Manage your Mind – Change your Life – on Amazon Thank you for reading or listening If you like listening to our show we would love you to leave us a review on iTunes or Stitcher – like Alex did – thanks Alex – really appreciate it! alex 18 butterfly from the UK – October 23rd 2015 Brilliant Podcasts - 5 stars "I look forward to listening to these podcasts in the morning on my way to work. They really help me feel positive towards the day ahead! Thank you so much for making these podcasts and please don’t stop."
The heady heights of a budding relationship can quickly fall into the treadmill of something more humdrum and yet it doesn’t have to be that way. So, what makes better relationships in both life and business? Well who better to ask than a relationship coach. Susie Miller, known internationally as The Better Relationship Coach is an Author, Speaker and Coach. She is dedicated to helping people create better relationships and is the bestselling author of Listen, Learn, Love: How to Dramatically Improve Your Relationships in 30 Days or Less! She teaches us that by being willing to listen, open to learn and therefore ready to love – truly, deeply and kindly – any and all relationships can be reignited beyond our imagination. Over the last few weeks of the Changeability Podcast we’ve been exploring the many facets of love and relationships: In episode 80 – Celebrate Love, we took a light-hearted look at love in all its many forms in today’s world. Episode 81 – turned our attention to self-love. What is self-love and what are the signs that we don’t always love ourselves, plus six reasons why you should Episode 82 taught us 10 ways to build the self-love habit And finally, last week we looked at the fascinating topic of rituals and how to build self-love rituals into your life, to become a happier, more fulfilled, confident and effective person, with more self-esteem and a better sense of our own self-worth. With all that talk of self-love, we thought our mini-series on love and better relationships with ourselves deserved to be broadened to include better relationships with our loved ones and those other key relationships we have with friends and work colleagues. So to help us ‘put deposits in our relationship bank’, we invited Susie Millar to come and speak on that very subject of better relationships, in episode 84 of the Changeability Podcast. And what a great interview it turned out to be. “Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes it’s the quiet voice at the end of the day that says, I will try again tomorrow.” ~ Mary Anne Radmacher In episode 84 of The Changeability Podcast Hear your hosts Kathryn and Julian interview Susie and discover: How important love and relationships are to making changes in life How difficulties in these areas impact all aspects of our lives Why relationships are the ‘currency of today’ How, with all the pressures of everyday life, we go about creating and sustaining lasting and meaningful, better relationships The importance of ‘intentionality’ in our relationships Why we can easily find ourselves taking our relationships for granted Why we need relationship goals, and concrete examples of what those goals would look like Susie’s take on a ‘hierarchy of relationships’ and the need to be ‘present’ in your relationships How to achieve balance between the different types of relationships we have, with our spouse or partner, our children, business and work colleagues and friends How much of our relationships goes on in our mind Plus, practical tips on how we can improve all our relationships All this, and a little extra bonus for Changeability Podcast listeners you’ll want to check out. Mentioned on today’s show: Susie’s website – susiemiller.com – the Better Relationship Coach Susie’s book – Listen, learn, love – How to Dramatically Improve Your Relationships in 30 Days or Less! Susie’s offer to Changeability listeners – susiemiller.com/brilliantliving
‘Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting.’ William Shakespeare, Henry V Last week we were celebrating love and Valentines, which inevitably led to thoughts of romance and different types of love. But despite a lot of talk of love everywhere – from card shops to films to books and the media – we see evidence of a lack of love all around us. That lack of love is not only evident in the terrible things we hear on the news, but also in something closer to home. And that’s the love we have for ourselves – or self-love. What is self-love? What are we talking about when we talk about self-love or loving yourself? A good place to start is by saying what it’s not. It’s not about being selfish or self-centred – even though it’s easy to jump to this conclusion when we talk about loving ourselves. And it’s not about showing off or having an over-inflated ego or sense of self. Nor is self-love about being narcissistic. In fact narcissism is the opposite of self-love because we’re seeking approval of ourselves, as this quote from Emily Levine illustrates: ‘I am a recovering narcissist. I thought narcissism was about self-love till someone told me there is a flip side to it. It is actually drearier than self-love; it is unrequited self-love’. Emily Levine So that’s what it’s not – but what is it? Self-love is about our ability to deal with and cater to our own needs and desires. It’s about having a healthy view and sense of our self. It’s tied up with our sense of self-esteem, self-worth and confidence in ourselves. Yet how often we don’t love and respect ourselves. 6 ways we don’t love ourselves What does it look like when we don’t love ourselves? Here are 6 tell tell signs to look out for, clues that indicate you’re not being loving towards yourself. Negative and derogatory self-talk This is the inner dialogue that goes on in our mind. For example: I can’t or I couldn’t do that I’ve never been any good at… Why would they want to hear what I’ve got to say… They wont be interested in me I’m not clever enough to… Stupid man …. Why am I so silly or stupid (one of Julian’s favourites) I feel disappointed in myself that….(one of Kathryn’s favourites!) Being Critical and impatient It’s not just what we say to ourselves but also what we say out loud and in front of others, including when we put ourselves down in front of others. This is where you’re critical of yourself e.g. ‘why can’t I do that’, or where you’re impatient with yourself for getting something wrong or with how long it’s taking you to get something right. Think about when we’re learning something new. It might be a new or complicated skill like playing a musical instrument, so of course we’re not going to pick it up straight away. But still we somehow think we should be able to do it much quicker than we realistically can. We’re impatient, as if it’s some defect or lack in us that’s the cause of our slowness. We get frustrated or even angry - when really it’s our expectations that are unrealistic. The same goes for when it takes long time to do a task or our work. Impatience or criticism creeps in and we question why we can’t focus more or why’s it taking so long to get it done. These are the signs of being hard on yourself that we both recognise only too well! We don’t look after ourselves One of the classic signs of a lack of self-love is when we don’t look after ourselves physically. We might show a blatant disregard for our health and what we put into our bodies or what we do with our bodies, such as indulging in risky or dangerous behaviour. When you love someone you want the best for them. Yet many of us fill our bodies with food and drink that’s no good for it and harmful in the long run. Is it we don’t love ourselves enough to give us the best we can, or is the quick reward of eating something we like the taste of, more appealing? It’s a complex subject and might not apply to you – but it’s worth thinking about what you eat and if you’re being loving to yourself. Or is that little something you call a treat and reward, really the opposite? Neglecting your needs This applies to you if you run around looking after everyone else whilst neglecting your own needs. Many parents will relate to this. Of course most people love looking after their children and doing things for their family, friends and community but there is a point at which it becomes about everyone else - which is fine until you find yourself neglecting your own needs. Another form of neglecting your needs is when you live how others think you should live rather than following your own dreams and aspirations. Shame Sometimes shame gets in the way of loving our self. You might shame yourself about the decisions you make or have made in the past. Or you try to hide something from your past because you think it puts you in a bad light or you regret it. But you might also try to hide parts of you from those around you because you’re ashamed or don’t like some aspect of yourself. Maybe you’re afraid they wont like you if they were aware of it, or you fear opening up the whole you will make you vulnerable to getting hurt. Lack of self-worth These are examples of when we exhibit behaviour and characters lacking in self-love, but they also describe a lack of self-worth. This is when people don’t consider themselves worthy or deserving of looking after or nurturing themselves, because or an underlying, possibly unrecognised, sense that they don’t think they’re worth it. But they are worth it – we’re all worth it. We need to think of ourselves in loving ways and to feel and experience that self-love. Not in a selfish way but because self-love is good for us, our families and society. What to do next Be on the look out for how you do or don’t love yourself, especially those signs of when you’re not being loving towards yourself like your inner voice and critic. Catch it out and if you’re serious about this make a note of it. Write down the thought or word or action and the time and date. This will help you in two ways: It will help you to look out for when you’re not being loving to yourself by raising your awareness of how and when you do it. If you do this practical action and note the date and very importantly the time, you might be able to detect a pattern. So does it happen when you’re tired or stressed or when you’re around particular people or a specific situation or you’re doing a particular activity, like learning or practicing something. In case you’re worried about being selfish, it’s not selfish to look after yourself, or want to change yourself and your situation. The fact is we have more to offer others when we care for ourselves first. Love starts with you. Improve your life and you’ll improve the lives of those around you and have more love to give. Episode 81 of the Changeability Podcast In episode 81 of the Changeability we discuss all these aspects of self-love and more. You can listen now either on this page or on iTunes, Sticher or TuneIn. If you enjoy listening to the podcast you can subscribe to it from here or your phone and get each episode downloaded automatically. Share the love If you get something out of reading our blog posts or listening to our podcast, please share this with your friends, or leave us a review.
“I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.” Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Having recently talked about the ups and downs of life and a week when we experienced what might be called extremes of feeling, this week we put feelings in the spotlight. How are you feeling right at this very moment as you read this? We all have feelings, they’re an intrinsic part of our human experience, but what are they and what purpose do they serve? What is a feeling? How do you describe what a feeling is? Something to do with emotions - an emotional response A physical manifestation of our emotions. A notion about something. A bodily reaction representing our immediate response to a situation - a gut instinct. Dictionary definitions of a feeling include: “An emotional state or reaction.” “A strong emotion” – like ‘I love you’ “An idea or belief, especially a vague or irrational one.” E.g. ‘He had a feeling he was being watched.’ That’s what feelings are but what’s the point of feelings? Why do we have them? Feelings have a purpose First thing to recognise is that feelings do have a purpose. They are like a bodily alarm system, alerting us to dangers and opportunities in life. We can respond to feelings in different ways: We can choose to act on our feelings, We can choose to observe them We can choose to ignore them But to ignore them disregards a powerful tool in the changeability armoury. To discount our feelings removes some of the meaning from life, as feelings are powerful indicators of our bodily and mental emotions. Taken to extremes, totally repressing our feelings can lead to mental and physical problems. Feeling skills Being aware of our feelings, and how we respond or choose to express them, is a skill. A skill we’re not normally taught. But one we think can be taught and learnt, (we would say that wouldn’t we), and developed into a useful tool. We all have instances when we haven’t dealt with our feelings in a helpful way. It might be the way you deal with traffic jams (Kathryn!) Or how you react when someone cuts you up on the road – is it with feelings of road rage or do you just shrug it off. Someone says something unkind or insensitive and we respond with feelings of hurt, or lash out and retaliate badly. One of the keys to developing the feeling skill is summed up in the phrase: “You can’t choose how you feel, but you can choose how you respond to how you feel.” Recognising and owning your feelings The first step is to recognise you’re having the feeling in the first place. This involves getting in the habit of tuning in to what you are feeling and taking ownership of those feelings. You can find clues in your speech. ‘I’ not ‘you’ We often express our own feelings by using the ‘you’ word. We might tell a friend, “You know, you feel really upset when someone doesn’t listen to you properly.” When what we actually mean is, “I feel really upset when I’m not listened to properly.” Such phrases appear like general statements but are really statements about the way we think and feel or the way we believe others should think. Substitute ‘I’ to make it a statement of your feeling and you Speak for yourself, not others, and take ownership of that feeling. Make a connection with how you really feel – you recognise the feeling. Don’t make generalisations based on what you think you should feel. Mindfulness and feelings Mindfulness can help us recognise and own our feelings. “Mindfulness is the awareness, that arises through paying attention, on purpose, in the present moment and non-judgementally.” Jon Kabat-Zinn One popular mindfulness meditation technique is the body scan, where you pay attention to sensations in your body as in your mind you progressively scan your body from the tip of your toes to the top of your head, becoming aware of the sensations in your body but without attaching labels to them. You can use a similar process for recognising your feelings. Bring your awareness to your breathing to make a connection with your body. Your body is where your feelings connect, it acts as a channel for your feelings and reflects them. If you listen to episode 66 of the Changeability we talk you through this but if you want try it for yourself now start with a couple of breaths in and out and begin to observe your body. What is your body telling you about your feeling right now? Using the ‘I’ word say to yourself: “Right now, I am feeling … You might have said tired, angry, irritated, annoyed, hungry, sleepy, alert, bored, energised – sad – or a completely different feeling of your own. Typology of feelings There is a huge range of words to express our feelings but broadly speaking they come under three wide categories of feeling: Physical feelings: These mostly relate to your body, e.g. thirsty, hungry, tired, warm, cold, etc. Emotions: These are the root of your feelings, covered by four basic categories of joy, anger, fear and sadness. Emotions can relate to both your body and state of mind. How do you feel when you watch a really good horror movie? Perhaps a sense of fear, but one related to your body exhibiting characteristics like feeling on edge or a fast beating heart and heightened sense of awareness. After all eliciting feelings is a key driver of a film. “A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.” Stanley Kubrick State of mind: These are more to do with your attitude towards the thing you’re thinking about. These are often more complex attitudes towards a situation, that give your life a higher purpose, such as a sense of fulfilment, motivation, inspiration, purpose and also a sense of the morality of a situation, e.g. a feeling of guilt, shame or responsibility. Quantifying your feelings Once you’ve identified, recognised and owned your feelings you can take it a step further by quantifying the strength of feeling using a simple process like red (for very strong) amber, green – or assign a number from 1-10. Remember to focus on the whole range of feelings, not just the more negative ones we’re sometimes more aware of but also feeling happy, joyful, thankful, excited, exhilarated. Episode 66 The Changeability Podcast Listen to the episode 66 of the Changeability Podcast to hear us talking about all of this and more and join us next week to explore what we do next in ‘dealing with feeling’. Say hello We have a new feature this week here at BrilliantLivingHQ.com – voice mails! Yes you can very easily send us a spoken message – for free – and we’d love to hear from you. Why not humour us by trying it out and letting us know who you are, where you live, and something you like about listening to the Changeability Podcast or the website – go on, we’re waiting for your call!
Leaving their careers behind to head into the world of entrepreneurship and helping others find their dream life with Brilliant Living HQ! Connect with Kathryn Bryant and Julian Illman at Brilliant Living HQ Brilliant Living HQ I'm super excited to get to share this episode with two great entrepreneurs from across the pond! Kathyn Bryant and Julian Illman started up Brilliant Living HQ and left their secure well paying jobs to give themselves a better purpose. They have a wonderful story to share, and I hope that you enjoy it! I was on an episode of their great podcast which you can listen to here. You can get Kathryn Bryant's book "Changeability" on Amazon. Episode 199
Following on from their recent success of winning best self-help podcast at the UK Podcasters Awards ceremony 2015, Kathryn and Julian were invited to the BBC to take part as guests on Lesley Dolphin’s afternoon radio show. ‘On the Sofa with Lesley Dolphin’ – is a BBC Radio Suffolk feature interviewing local people about their lives and successes. So with the tables turned and the spotlight glare firmly on Kathryn and Julian, we sat down for a warm-hearted discussion and interview about Changeability, winning an award and life – ‘On the sofa with Kathryn Bryant and Julian Illman’ Episode 62 of the Changeability Podcast On today’s podcast discover: Behind the scenes at Brilliant Living HQ and the Changeability Podcast How the show came into being The motivation behind starting an award winning podcast Life lessons learnt from podcasting If mindfulness is just a trend How Changeability is not just about the big changes in life Tales from Kathryn and Julian’s youth Royal connections and a tantalising secret past Life before Brilliant Living HQ Details of Kathryn’s new podcast show – Podcast Divas And if there really is a sofa at the BBC Links mentioned on today’s show: BBC Radio Suffolk Kathryn’s book: Changeability: Manage your mind – change your life Podcast Divas - Kathryn's new podcast Our products What’s next for you? As always, thanks for listening to the Changeability podcast. We would love it if you could take a moment to leave a review on iTunes or Stitcher of our show – we read them all and it might be yours we feature on our next show. Alternatively if you’ve learnt something new about us, we’d love to read your comments below. Bye for now.
We’ve reached episode 50 and Step 9 of The Changeability Podcast – hurray! Not entirely sure why, but 50 seems a significant number – a bit of a milestone. And we’re marking this 50th episode with the launch of the Changeability Starter Kit. Sign up now for your free short series of videos to get you started on your first Changeability step. Accountability “Accountability separates the wishers in life from the action-takers that care enough about their future to account for their daily actions.” ~ John Di Lemme Today’s episode calls you to be accountable. If you’ve set your goals, worked on your inner self talk and beliefs through affirmations and visualisation, know the actions to make those goals happen for you and you’re all set to go – what’s going to keep you on track? What will motivate you when events throw you off course, you reach a plateau or your goals feel out of reach? It’s the 9th of our 10 Changeability steps and it’s a big one – accountability or to put it another way - find a way to be accountable. Accountable for your actions, your goals, yourself. In episode 50 of The Changeability Podcast you’ll find out: The sort of numbers Kathryn likes (random!) What’s The Changeability Starter Kit A definition of accountability and other ways of thinking about it Why accountability isn’t dull Why you didn’t want to be a Roman engineer What weight loss companies, coaches, mentors and mastermind groups have in common What’s a mastermind group anyway Why we were working 2 hours before leaving for Heathrow when we should have been packing 6 ways to be accountable Why you want to join the private Changeability Facebook Group What to do next Sign up for your Changeability Starter Kit today Join the Changeability Facebook group and share your goals – use us to keep you accountable Links and resources mentioned in episode 50 The Changeability Starter Kit Affirmations - affirmation products Visualisation - visualisation products Episode 48 - Action Planning for Success Episode 49 - Time for Action UK Podcasters (link to New Media Europe aff link) The private free Changeability Facebook Group Vote for us Show us some love by nominating the Changeability Podcast for the first ever UK Podcaster’s Awards. It’s super simple to do and we’ll be forever grateful to you. Go to this link and click ‘Nominate this podcast now’ Vote via email, Facebook or Google If by email don’t forget to confirm the email that comes to you to verify you’re a real person. And if you really like us you can nominate us once a day every day for the rest of July – you amazing person!
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Kathryn Bryant and Julian Illman | Changeability | Mindfulness Today we welcome to the show Kathryn Bryant and Julian Illman the dynamic duo from Brilliant Living HQ. At Brilliant living HQ Kathryn and Julian are dedicated to helping you take charge of your life, achieve your goals and aspirations and live a life you love by helping you develop the habits and mindset for happiness and success. Their podcast, The Changeability Podcast, is top ranked in iTunes for good reason. Released each week, the Changeability podcast contains discussions and interviews that look at practical mind management techniques, tactics and tools all of which are aimed at empowering and inspiring you to a happier more successful life or business. LINKS Show Notes: HERE If you would like to learn more about Kathryn and Julian the best way for you to reach is them via the following methods. Website: Brilliant Living HQ eMail: Hello@BrilliantLivingHQ.com Twitter: @BrilliantLvngHQ Podcast: The Changeability Podcast Book: Changeability - Manage Your Mind Change your life Facebook Group: http://Facebook.com/groups/changeability Julian's Mindfulness course: A beginners guide to mindfulness meditation Changeability Starter Kit QUOTE: "Sit down and think about what it is you want. What does your perfect day look like? What does your perfect life look like if you could do what you want because so many people don't." TOPICS DISCUSSED We cover a lot of ground in this podcast by reviewing Kathryn's book, Changeability. A top rate book on how your mind impacts everything in our lives and how we can use it to realize our dreams. But our dreams don't just happen. It takes effort on your part which of course starts with taking the first step. We talk a lot about how our mindset impacts our ability to take that first step. Which begs the question: "Are you your own worst enemy?" Is it possible that your thoughts instead of someone else higher up in the corporate ladder might actually be holding you back? Albert Einstein once said: “The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.” Changeability is all about our ability to change. If you think about it our success in life, in business or in our careers comes down to our change-ability. The ability to change our attitudes, to change our mindset. We may not like to admit it but we all have limiting beliefs. Digging deep and discovering those limiting beliefs is the first step in overcoming them. However to become mindful of these beliefs we first need to understand our vision. VISION What is your vision? Kathryn tells us one of the key things she has noticed with people who are successful in their work is their mindset and the vision they have of what they want to achieve. Do you know people like this at work? People who appear to be singularly focused on one goal or one position. Believe it or not those people aren't machines. They've simply taken the time to define their vision so they know what they want, they've set their mind on it and they have a plotted a course to get there. Are you like these folks or are you more like the majority of people who go through life without a vision of what they want to become? If so, it's ok. You know why? Because guess who controls your vision? That's right you do. And the great thing about this? Because you control it, you can also change it. This won't happen however without a conscience effort on your part. You need to take some time for yourself which could start with something as simple as being silent. Try it out. Make some quiet time for yourself today and think about the possibilities. Think about where you are and where you want to go. If you're already thinking you don't have any time, guess what? congratulations. You've just discovered a limiting belief. We all have the same 168 hours in a week. I don't get any more time to think than you do, which I why I said MAKE some time for yourself today. Ask yourself, What do you really want out of life, your business or your career? Once you know what you want, once you have that vision, you can begin to set your goals, and start moving towards them. Now I admit this is not an easy process to do. Why? Because too often you become overwhelmed with everything going on in your life that you forget about the one person who can have the most impact on it, which of course is you. This is exactly what the phrase “Seeing the forest through the trees” means. The trees you see are from the daily grind going on all around you. If you focus on the trees, you won't see the forest. You won't be able to create a vision for yourself. Kathryn explains that a vision without goals is essentially a dream. If you want to take control of your life you need to set your vision, establish your goals determine your next steps and start marching forward. Julian believes taking that first step can be the hardest part.
“Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.” ~ Virginia Woolf You know what you want, you’ve created your vision and set your goals. You’ve got in the right mindset and done the mental preparation. You’ve planned your actions and know where to start – so what now? Well it’s time to actually do it – it’s time for action. Planning for action is key but none of it matters if you don't put your plan into action and follow through on your goals. Changeability is about taking action. But it’s not a ‘running around like a headless chicken’ sort of action. It’s not being busy for the sake of it action. It’s about managing your mind to make changes in your life, and that means it’s action based on mind management techniques. The very techniques we talk about on The Changeability Podcast and are laid out in the Changeability: Manage your Mind – Change your Life book. If you follow and practice these your action becomes: Action born of your vision and goals Action grounded in attaining the results of your visualization. Action in line with the empowering beliefs of your affirmations. Action founded on the energy generated through appreciation. Action centred in mindfulness of your present experience, making it count. Action stemming from the creativity of your subconscious. Action implemented with the clarity and focus arising from meditative practice. It’s time for action, but there’s potential traps stopping you. Procrastination Procrastination is the number 1 killer of action, but what’s behind it? Fear - Sometimes we’re afraid of either the action itself or the outcome if we achieve it, so we find other things to do to distract us Uncertainty - We’re unsure what to do to get going Perfectionist tendencies Overcoming procrastination Examine the thoughts and beliefs behind the fear and use affirmations to replace them with positive affirming beliefs Acknowledge the fear and get on with the action Recognise it wont be perfect and this is a delaying tactic Think in terms of days not months or years, to bring your future self nearer to your present self and raise awareness of the price of not taking action Busyness for the sake of busyness Sometimes we just like to feel we’re busy. Being busy is almost addictive and makes us feel like we’re achieving something even if it’s not the actions we need to take to get us to our goals. Set your priority and prioritise it Make this your one thing to get done before moving on to other activities The ‘to-do’ list Surely the most simple productivity tip of all time is the good old fashioned humble to-do list. Try writing it by hand with a box to tick it off when completed Write your to-do list the night before, so you can get up and get on without thinking about what you need to do Action on action The time for action is now – and the key is consistency and purposeful activity. Take positive consistent action every day Ask yourself if your actions today support your goals The Changeability Podcast episode 49 In episode 49 of The changeability Podcast – Time for Action – we talk about all of this and more including: What stops us taking the action (even when we think we want to take it) Tips for overcoming procrastination and being busy What’s going on in Kathryn’s mind when she should be taking action 5 ways to help you take action everyday What to do when you feel stuck How to deal with self-sabotaging thoughts The question you need to answer everyday “It's a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you're ready. I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything. There is almost no such thing as ready. There is only now. And you may as well do it now. Generally speaking, now is as good a time as any.” Hugh Laurie What about you? What are you taking action on today? Let us know in the comments below. If you like listening to The Changeability Podcast help us out Nominations have opened for the first ever UK Podcasters’ Awards and are open for the whole of July. If you like our podcast we would absolutely love it if you’d consider nominating us for a UK Podcast Award. You can nominate us up to once a day for each day of July – so if you really love us you can do it everyday – but even once would be fabulous. Simply click here and then on ‘nominate this podcast’. You’ll be asked to verify it with an email address, Facebook or Twitter (this is to make sure it’s only 1 vote per podcast per day). Thank you very much K and J xxx
“Action is the foundational key to all success.” ~ Pablo Picasso Changeability is the ability to change. It’s the fundamental ability underpinning your approach to what you want in life and how you get it. It’s what The Changeability Podcast is about - developing the ability to change through managing your mind. Getting you in the right mindset and way of thinking to achieve what you want to achieve. And the Changeability book Changeability: Manage your Mind – Change your Life is basically a 10-step framework of tools and techniques to do just that. Yes it’s crucial to focus our thoughts and use the power of our thoughts and mind to help us do what we want to do – but that’s not the end of the story. Today we’re talking about what comes next. Because it’s all very well doing all this prep, getting yourself in the right frame of mind and developing the positive mindset to get you where you want to be – but you still have to actually get there. That means taking action. The one thing that differentiates those who read this and think it's interesting from those who change something as a result is they take action. And to take action you need to plan for action. But not just any old action. It’s not about being busy for the sake of feeling like you’re doing something. Effective action comes from knowing what you want to achieve, and what to change to get there. It’s the big picture stuff your goals come out of. Reverse engineering Reverse engineering is the term for a technical process, where you start with a finished product and take it apart to see how it works, the components and interrelationships, so you can put it together again or improve it. Reverse engineering begins with the product and works through the design process in the opposite or backwards direction. Basically that’s what you can do with your life – start with the finished product, how you want your changed life to look, and work backwards to see the steps that need to be taken to get you there. Action planning First you have your vision – what you want your life to look like.Then what do you need to change to get that life.But these are still big goals and dreams, but not yet actions.They’re what you need to achieve in order to have the life you want, but don’t indicate how you do it. To do this we need to break it down further. The next layer is the milestone. These are interim goals that unsurprisingly work like a milestone. A stone sign that in the olden days (as children say) told you how many miles it was to your destination. You weren’t there but you were on your way and this was a defined place along the journey.Your milestones show you’re on the right track. Interim goals that when you achieve them, build towards your big overarching goal or vision.You might have a vision goal to be slim – but it doesn’t mean anything on its own. So your milestone goal gives you something to aim for on the way to becoming slim e.g. be 10 pounds lighter in one month’s time. Now you have something concrete to aim for – the milestone – and the next layer is to identify the measurable actions to get from where you are now to the milestone. For instance, - Enrol at the local gym (by a certain date).- Attend 3 gym sessions or classes a week for the next two months.- Choose a suitable eating plan (date).- Remove all unhealthy options from my kitchen (date).- Create some health eating affirmations (date). The final layer is the micro-step or trigger action.As the name suggests, these are the first tiny steps that trigger the next action and make it easier and more likely you’ll take it. For example, leaving your gym clothes laid out in your bedroom or your gym shoes by the door, so you don’t have to think about getting ready to go straight to the gym when you get up in the morning. When you don’t know where to start It all seems to make logical sense – but what about when you don’t know what actions to take. You’ve got your vision, you’ve set your milestone but don’t know how to get there? Some goals will have more obvious actions to take, like a healthy eating plan or training regime, but sometimes you wont know what to do. The trick here is to find a way to take the first step. Think around the subject; do a bit of research and make an educated guess about where would be a good place to start. It doesn’t have to be perfect; it’s about finding a way in, getting started and building momentum. “Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” ~ Dr Martin Luther King Jr. The Changeability Podcast episode 48 To hear us talking more about action planning for success and other things along the way listen to episode 48 of The Changeability Podcast. Resources and links mentioned Episode 12 - Making goals happen with entrepreneus Chris Marr Episode 11 - How to set goals that work Episode 10 - The power of goals Episode 9 - What is your vision in life? Thank you Thank you for reading and listening to the podcast. And a special thanks to the action takers who’ve been generous enough to leave The Changeability Podcast a review. This is very important to us as it makes a big difference to the visibility of the podcast which in turn means more people listen. So if you have a couple of minutes to help us out we would very much appreciate a review and rating on iTunes or Stitcher.
This week on the podcast I chat to Kathryn and Julian from the Changeability Podcast. The Changeability Podcast is based on Kathryn's book Changeability: Manage your Mind - Change your Life. In a nutshell, Kathryn has made sense of many of the approaches and techniques that exist for managing your mindset. But what makes her book, and the podcast, so interesting is that she has created a framework for weaving all of these techniques together so that they get you results. During our chat, Kathryn and Julian talk about some of these aproaches, such as mindfulness, affirmations, visualisation and rewards. We probably spend a bit more time than we should talking about food! But all in a super relvant way! We discuss mindful eating and how doing so can help with weight loss, among other things. I'm sure cake was mentioned a few times! Julian also shares with us what they're trying to do with the Changeability Podcast inclusing the use of storytelling to help some of these important concepts stick. I had a really enjoyable chat with them, just as we did when I was invited on their podcast late last year. You can find out more about Kathryn and Julian at their digital HQ over at BrilliantLivingHQ.
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Thinking About Thoughts “It's not what you have to ‘do’ that needs to change. It’s first how you ‘think’ that needs to change. It’s who you have to ‘be’ in order to ‘do’ what needs to be done. The good news is that it doesn't cost much money to change your thinking. In fact, it can be done for free.” - Robert Kiyosaki In episode 4 of the Changeability podcast we're thinking about something we don't often think about - something that we all take for granted. We're thinking about thinking. And that means thinking about thoughts. As this week’s ‘quote of the show’ says - you can change your thinking and it can be done for free. This might depend a bit on your definition of ‘free’ as it’s not without some effort – but it can be done. And that’s what lies at the heart of the whole idea behind Changeability. Changing our thinking to change or improve things in our life through managing our minds or mind management. It’s what the Changeability podcast (and book) is about. In a couple of episode’s time we’ll get more into the practical techniques and tactics for doing that. But before we get into how to do it let’s think today about what thinking is. What are our thoughts and why do they matter? In this episode you will find out: How everything starts with a thought How all that you are is the result of all that you think. What is thought That your thoughts really matter – and science is proving it How your thoughts influence your emotions, and physical and mental health And more!
Wahay - The Changeability Podcast is here. And in the first episode ‘Changeability – the Start’ you get to hear us, your hosts - Kathryn and Julian – introduce ourselves and the idea behind the Changeability show. We also talk a bit about what you can expect from the shows over the coming weeks and months. The Changeability podcast is for people who are interested in changing or improving aspects of their life or business, whether big or small. It’s for those people like us, who’re interested in finding ways to make our lives better bit by bit – so we can be more successful (whatever that means to you), happy and fulfilled.
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