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Life at Work: Q32: Want to change the world? (What are you doing this Thursday?)
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Monday, 29 September 2014. Q32: Want to change the world? What are you doing this Thursday? This Thursday, October 2nd, marks the world's seventh International Day of Non-Violence. So here's an idea:. Perhaps you've already taken the Ice Bucket Challenge. But if not, don't worry! You don't need to get wet to change the world. (See my MINDFUL ice-bucket tips here: The Mindful Ice Bucket! One Person - One Action! The peaceful power of 'NO'. NO' holds huge reservoirs of energy. It works by pushing away ...
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Life at Work: Tip 12: Useless communication – and why it’s a good thing!
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Friday, 1 August 2014. Tip 12: Useless communication – and why it’s a good thing! This week, a journalist writing in. Newspaper questioned the Labour leader's 'politics of empathy', saying that it means nothing without effective policies. "I don't want a dentist who can feel my pain", says the journalist, "I want one who can remove it". In one way, I agree with him: empathy is always 'useless' - but THAT is the whole point! Now is the time to choose your dentist! Make your communication 'useless'! Make s...
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Life at Work: Q29: What can great art teach us about listening?
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Thursday, 1 May 2014. Q29: What can great art teach us about listening? I spent my Easter bank holiday gazing at the sea paintings of Turner, at Greenwich Maritime Museum. Apart from my love of Turner's seas and skies, I wanted to learn more about listening . If you've clicked on the link in my email and want to make a comment,. Click just below this line where it says 'comments', next to the envelope icon. That will take you to the comments box at the bottom of the post. Have seen ugly things! With his ...
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Life at Work: Q30: Can politicians speak mindfully?
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Sunday, 1 June 2014. Q30: Can politicians speak mindfully? This May, I had the privilege of attending the launch of a new All-Party Parliamentary Group on mindfulness. Here I was, invited into the Houses of Parliament simply because I meditate! For many of us long-term meditators, this was an unexpected turn. When we started out (for me, in 1983) we were 'weird' or 'way out', we then graduated to being 'cool', and what are we now? Even a force for change in the establishment! Presumably, you pay attentio...
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Life at Work: Tip 14: How to face something grim
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Saturday, 1 November 2014. Tip 14: How to face something grim. Video, I talked about how to welcome life's experience, however cold or wet it makes you. Then, the very next day, I came down with acute appendicitis. Now this certainly raised the stakes. So this month I ask: how do you welcome experience which is decidedly grim? Scroll down for my very own Hospital BFTA's. Big Friendly Thanks Awards'! 1 This isn't all of me! However bad something feels, remember it is not ALL of you! So I did something new...
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Life at Work: Tip 13: How to carry on the holiday at work!
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Monday, 1 September 2014. Tip 13: How to carry on the holiday at work! My clever chiropractor brother says interesting things about relaxing your back when it's tight or tired - and I thought, "Well, what about tight or tired conversations? So although your holidays may be over, here's a way to carry on relaxing - even in the middle of a stressful conversation. My chiropractor brother ( backcareclinic.co.uk. Says that resting your back is NOT:. For your back, rest is . a change of activity! To get out of...
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Life at Work: Q31: What can Marie Antoinette teach us about communication?
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Tuesday, 1 July 2014. Q31: What can Marie Antoinette teach us about communication? According to the popular story of Marie Antoinette, the Parisian mob was thronging at the palace gates demanding bread when the French queen appeared in the royal balcony and, with a wave of her delicately gloved hand, declared, 'Let them eat cake! The starving peasants, intent upon survival not pleasure, did not take kindly to the charming comment - and promptly cut off her head. Marie Antoinette's story . I said mildly, ...
