Saturday, 26 January 2008
Infinite Underpants
| I was doing some research for a client this morning when I found this brilliant article by Beth Banning and Neill Gibson on how to change your thoughts away from negative emotion laden words (like money) and towards more positive, fun strategies. Their theory goes whenever you hear the word money (and feel yourself closing up inside) - replace the word with the most ridiculous word you can think of. In their article they used the word underpants. Here's a few examples they gave to get you started ...
This is one I think the kids can happily join in on (and of course your team members). You can of course change the concept to apply to pretty much anything that is causing stress in your workplace.In Queensland many local council employees are finding the council amalgamations quite challenging at present. They could easily change the words "council amalgamations" to something silly in their team like "baggy blue trousers" or "bottom burps". This could lead to conversations such as "I wonder if any of our work colleagues will lose their jobs because of bottom burps". It certainly takes the sting out the topic - reduces stress and gives a chance to deal with the issue without emotional baggage. Until next timeIngrid Cliff Labels: infinite underpants, law of attraction, positive thinking, thoughts creating things |
Tuesday, 27 November 2007
Patterns with people
| Hi This week I have been reminded that we attract into our lives the same sort of people over and over again. I was working with a business that had a history of poor hiring decisions. Each person turned out to be "full of hot air" with no substance beneath to back up their talk. Many had money problems that lead to suspected or proven pilfering and many had aggression problems. But something changed ... all of a sudden these people started resigning and were replaced by decent, solid, reliable team members. What was happening with the managers? At the same time some key managers had separated from their partners (who also happened to be aggressive etc) and were now dating solid, reliable, stable people. What was the difference? The most significant change was the thoughts of the key managers about who they were and what they would and would not stand for. Once the thoughts changed then the environment around them changed. Look at your work environment - what is it telling you about your thoughts? Until next time Ingrid Cliff Heart Harmony http://www.heartharmony.com.au/ Business development ... through human resource management Labels: attitude, law of attraction, staff hiring, thoughts creating things |
Thursday, 15 November 2007
One of those days
| Hi Have you ever noticed how your business profitability reflects your own internal profitability? The days when you are on top of the world with your confidence and everything in your business flows smoothly compared to the days when you are feeling flat and want to curl into a ball and your business heads the same way? Many of the positive thinking gurus talk about this phenomena - what you focus on you get. But there is more to it than just thinking about it. On the flat days you need core skills and grit to keep going until you are "up" enough to take action to improve yourself further. Abraham says it well (and I am paraphrasing here) - some days even anger is better than depression. You can't get to feeling aligned straight from depression - anger is at least heading in the right direction as it has energy behind it. So on a really flat day - don't go for the rah rah hype - get good and angry ... and once that is done you may be able to reach for a wry smile rather than a million dollar focus! Until next time warm regards Ingrid www.heartharmony.com.au Labels: anger, law of attraction, positive thinking |