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Change your frame of reference with the Appreciative Inquiry 5D process
There are in general two perspectives to most things in life. Take, for instance, writing a blog post about the Appreciative Inquiry change process. One way to write the post is to talk about how...
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Icebergs and goal setting behaviour: Does achievement define your self-worth?
How do we change our behaviour? How do we stop doing one thing and start doing another? More importantly, how do we change when we decide that the thing we are doing is not good for us and the thing...
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How do you measure your self-esteem?
I am becoming increasingly aware of a tendency in society (or perhaps myself?) to associate self-worth with our performance or position. This can result in all sorts of defensive behaviours when...
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Three lessons from Gandhi’s experiments in truth
Is life a series of successes and failures, or an experiment? I invite you to reflect on your life over the past five years. Consider the key events that shaped your experience, that helped form how...
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Life as learning: Do it like Donkey Kong
My affection for video games started early in life. Video game arcades of the early 80s were my sanctuary; a dark, bleeping, blinking holy den of wonder. For a single US quarter dollar, I could prove...
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How are our thoughts serving us? An explanation from the Life Styles Inventory
She lets loose a barely audible mutter under her breath. “What did you say?” he asks with a notable tone of anger, daring her to respond. “Nothing” she replies as she stomps off in a huff. Each person...
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Our defence mechanism pharmacy
It’s the turn of a year again – a time many people use to make resolutions, promise to stop doing some things and commit to start doing others. The calendar acts as a magic wand, with power to do for...
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If you want to change, then change your rules: On first and second order change
“Rummy?” she tentatively declared, with a slight smile and questioning lilt to her voice. We had been married for a few months, and acquainted for not much longer than that. This was to be a golden...
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A way to map a path to your goals, using Kurt Lewin’s field theory
If you want to truly understand something, try to change it. – Kurt Lewin Taking Lewin’s quote further, you understand something more when your change efforts fail. When you view change repeatedly...
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Instant gratification: Fighting the immediacy of now
We have an unprecedented ability to satisfy our need for instant gratification. We are building a wave of technological advances which have a sole purpose of feeding the immediacy of now. We are...
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