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- Curing Your Own Depression - by Submitted on Aug 06, 2010 from Willie HortonEven though the effects of depression might be all too real in your life, depression is not real. If you’re suffering from depression, you’re only imagining it because depression is the direct result of your subconscious mind’s obsession with useless thoughts that were impressed upon it during ...
Views: 3228(6 votes) - Personal Success: Managing Your Energy - by Submitted on Jul 14, 2010 from Willie HortonOur world, our entire universe and, indeed, your own daily life operates like a big energy-exchange machine. Ground-breaking discoveries in the field of quantum physics has begun to confirm just how this energy actually works. But, for starters, we already know that everything is made up of ...
Views: 2328(3 votes) - What Goes Around Comes Around - by Submitted on Dec 11, 2009 from Willie HortonWe all have some sense that we reap what we sow – or what goes around comes around – but quantum physics actually scientifically proves that karma is a powerful force in our lives. As quantum physics might put it, energy in : energy out. So, for starters, let’s examine a couple of important ...
Views: 3854(3 votes) - Meditation and Sunny Summer Days! - by Submitted on Aug 12, 2010 from Willie HortonCast your mind back to when you were a child – maybe eight or nine years old. Remember those long, sunny, summer holiday days that seemed to go on forever? Remember how you had no idea of time – what time it was, the way time was passing – it was like everything was effortlessly enjoyed in a ...
Views: 3791(8 votes) - Success, Happiness and Wasting Your Energy - by Submitted on Jul 24, 2010 from Willie HortonToday is a new day – one that has never happened before, a unique day that will never be repeated. Now is a new moment. And, in this new moment, you have a choice. You have a choice - which thoughts you are you going to pay attention to just at this moment in time? The probability is that ...
Views: 2760(5 votes) - Your Own Personal Development Journey - by Submitted on Sep 20, 2010 from Willie HortonSince I started working for myself in the area of personal development in January 1996, I have come across many, many people who yearn for a better life, a more balanced life, people who want for more out of life. I’ve met lots of people who have bought all the books – purchased their atlas or ...
Views: 1919(5 votes) - How You Are Who You Are - by Submitted on Aug 20, 2010 from Willie HortonWe are all victims. Whether we are aware of it or not is entirely a different matter. The facts are, however, as grown adults, we are all a product of the childhood years that shaped who we now believe ourselves to be. During those formative years, our subconscious minds learned about the ...
Views: 1904(6 votes) - More Strategies for Effortless Business Success - by Submitted on Sep 16, 2009 from Willie HortonYou may have already my article "Strategies for Effortless Business Success" - with the emphasis on the word effortless. In this follow up article, I want to explore what I mean by success - because most "normal" people really haven't got the first clue what the word actually means in the ...
Views: 1608(4 votes) - Even More Strategies for Effortless Business Success - by Submitted on Sep 17, 2009 from Willie HortonYou may have already my two articles exploring the best strategies for effortless business success. In the second article we explored what success actually means - and in the first, I suggested four specific steps anyone in business - from the "one man band" to the multi-national - can take to ...
Views: 1521(3 votes) - The Law of Attraction is a Force in Your Life - by Submitted on Jul 21, 2010 from Willie HortonA great deal has been said and written about the so-called Law of Attraction’. It has been popularised by videos and books, like ‘The Secret’ and by televisions talk-show hosts such as Larry King. It’s been around for decades – Florence Schovel Shinn’s book ‘The Game of Life and How to Play ...
Views: 3045(4 votes) - You Are Not Your Behaviour - by Submitted on Jul 22, 2010 from Willie HortonNormal behaviour is rarely appropriate and often completely inappropriate if not totally bizarre. How could it be appropriate? Because normal behaviour is triggered automatically – you don’t have to think about it, you just react – by your subconscious mind. Your subconscious mind is fine ...
Views: 4484(4 votes) - Living Dangerously - by Submitted on Dec 12, 2009 from Willie HortonAre you living dangerously? If you're "normal" and research indicates that at least 96% of us are, then, in fact, you're not really living at all - you're simply existing. What passes for your life is in fact an ongoing automatic treadmill of habitual, reactive self-fulfilling prophecies. You ...
Views: 1853(1 vote) - Self Help Books That Don't Help! - by Submitted on Jul 20, 2010 from Willie HortonAre you an avid reader of self help or self improvement books? Because many people that I know are constantly reading, constantly learning, constantly searching, constantly gaining a deeper understanding of what it takes to change your life. Unfortunately, however, it is not reading that ...
Views: 2886(1 vote) - Are You Anxious, Nervous, Worried or Stressed? - by Submitted on Jul 19, 2010 from Willie HortonDo you ever feel uncomfortable, anxious or tense? Are there things that you worry about – things that sometimes even keep you awake at night? Are you ever nervous or apprehensive? Do you get hassled or lose your temper easily? Do you feel that you suffer from stress? If you perceive ...
Views: 3599 - Are You Teaching Mindfulness? - by Submitted on Jan 03, 2018 from Willie HortonFor the last twenty two years I’ve been enabling my clients use mindfulness in the course of their daily lives. Most of them are “big business” people – leaders in big companies and multi-nationals. And most of them tell me regularly, how mindfulness enables them cope with the enormous ...
Views: 1612 - Believing and Achieving - by Submitted on Jul 13, 2010 from Willie HortonHow would you feel about the proposition that you can achieve anything – absolutely anything – in which you can believe? Well, whether you realize it or not, that’s what you’re actually doing at the moment – you’re living the life that you believe you can live. Years of research in various ...
Views: 1858 - Building a Winning Business Team - by Submitted on Oct 16, 2009 from Willie HortonAnyone out there got the guts to do it? I mean, is anyone "brave" enough to create and lead a team of like-minded people towards the kind of exceptional business success that one only sees, if one is lucky, once in a career? I've spent the last couple of weeks talking to and working with ...
Views: 1910 - Experience Will Transform Your Life - by Submitted on Oct 25, 2011 from Willie HortonHaving just completed another 'Client-Only' Advanced Workshop, I continue to get the impression that there is a gap between intellectually grasping and understanding the very simple and scientifically proven concepts on which my workshops, books and websites are based, on the one hand and ...
Views: 1804 - How to Build Self Confidence - by Submitted on Feb 13, 2010 from Willie HortonIn conversation with a journalist a few days back, I was asked what tricks I knew that would help build self confidence – he said that he had been discussing this with a number of other people, in preparation for an article he was writing on the subject. I suggested to him that self-confidence ...
Views: 1446 - Kissing Your Stress Goodbye - by Submitted on Apr 06, 2018 from Willie HortonI've often quoted the World Health Organization's contention that stress will kill more people in the developed world in the 21st century than anything else. And, as far as I can see, they've got it spot on - it appears, from surveys, research and my own work, that the modern workplace is not a ...
Views: 1569 - Making Sense of Your Life - by Submitted on Jul 12, 2010 from Willie HortonAll too often in our daily lives we find ourselves in situations in life that could be described as less than ideal, whether it’s in our job, our relationship or, indeed, just in terms of how we feel about ourselves. Did you ever wonder how you got there? Well, the answer is extraordinarily ...
Views: 1739 - Mindfulness-Based Leadership Development - by Submitted on Apr 19, 2018 from Willie HortonThis article is about mindfulness-based, not mindfulness. For all it’s heralded and undoubted benefits – for example in the management of stress, the successful treatment of chronic depression and its application in sports (most notably golf, the NFL and rugby union), mindfulness has not made ...
Views: 1537 - Personal Development – It’s About Doing Things Differently - by Submitted on Jul 19, 2010 from Willie HortonI have no idea exactly how many personal development, self improvement or so-called self help books were sold over the last year – but I do know that it is one of the fastest areas of growth in the publishing world with millions of books being sold every year. I also know that these self help ...
Views: 2414 - Personal Development: Are You Fooling Yourself? - by Submitted on Jul 13, 2010 from Willie HortonWith the continuous and massive growth in sales of self improvement or self help books and the proliferation of personal development websites, wouldn’t you think that you would by now have witnessed a major shift in human consciousness – a marked improvement in the human condition? In other ...
Views: 1984 - Personal Success Comes from Mindfulness - by Submitted on Feb 15, 2010 from Willie HortonWhether it is on the field of professional sport or in the Buddhist temple, you will find exponents of the art of mindfulness. Mindfulness - the exact opposite of mindlessness - is the only key you need to unlock a life of peace, calm and effortless success. Doesn't matter what kind of success ...
Views: 1485 - Seen Jumping from a Moving Car… - by Submitted on Apr 16, 2018 from Willie HortonWe live where others holiday (it was recently suggested to me that I’m simply say this to annoy people – but it’s relevant to what follows!) – on skis in winter, with bikes and boots in summer. And the only people who are stressed or fighting around here… are the holidaymakers! This ...
Views: 1604 - Start Your Day on the Right Foot - by Submitted on Jan 07, 2010 from Willie HortonHow did you start your day today? When you leaped – or dragged yourself – out of bed, were you ready and alert for all the wonderful opportunities that today will offer, or did you slouch, on automatic pilot, to the bathroom in the normal early morning daze. If, of course, you were awoken by an ...
Views: 2861 - Stop Limping Through Life - by Submitted on Oct 28, 2011 from Willie HortonDecades of psychological research prove that about 96% of people use only 1% of their mental energy to focus in the present moment. Instead, the “normal” subconscious (the greater part of your mental energy) lives in your formative years, when you were so “sponge-like” and open-minded that you ...
Views: 2317 - Stress Explored, Explained, Beaten - by Submitted on Apr 25, 2018 from Willie HortonThere are only a few days left in April… just a few days left of Stress Awareness Month and, no doubt, pretty much just as many people are suffering from stress at the end of the month than there were at the beginning… the WHO says stress is an epidemic and that it will be the single biggest ...
Views: 1541 - Success and Happiness: Do You Know Where You're Going? - by Submitted on Oct 25, 2011 from Willie HortonWhat steps do you deliberately take each day to ensure that you stay or track? Do you even know what 'on track' means to you? Do you know what you want to achieve? Do you know what makes you happy? Do you know where you want to go in life? Or are you just happy to go with the flow? The ...
Views: 1737 - Taking Action - by Submitted on Oct 28, 2011 from Willie HortonIn case you haven’t already heard, the global economy is in something of a reversal at present!! I mention this in the context of a long-standing friend mentioning to me over breakfast last Friday that his daughter “couldn’t pick up the ‘phone” to ask for some career or job-seeking advice from ...
Views: 2289 - The Business of Mindfulness - by Submitted on Apr 05, 2018 from Willie HortonI was twenty-two years working for myself a couple of weeks back - an anniversary which give rise to a pause for reflection. First of all, it struck me how much science has caught up with what we intuitively know, feel and experience. For 2,500 years the practice of meditation has enabled ...
Views: 1446 - The Dangers of Personal Development - by Submitted on Jul 14, 2010 from Willie HortonWherever you are, whatever you’re doing, you’re surrounded by people who have no idea that their subconscious mind is creating their very own version reality as we speak. All these people – so-called normal people – have no idea that their subconscious mind controls them and, by virtue of the ...
Views: 2473 - Time Management: Focus on Only What is Important - by Submitted on Feb 16, 2010 from Willie HortonDo you have enough time to do all the things that you really should be doing today? Or, like most people, do you find yourself labouring under a mountain of “to dos”, never getting through it and then find that you simply haven’t done some of the things that you really wanted to or should have ...
Views: 1514 - Time Management: How to Create Additional Time - by Submitted on Oct 25, 2011 from Willie HortonI wonder how much more time you would have on your hands, to do all the important things in life, all the things that you really want to do, if you stopped doing the things that you shouldn't be doing. In conversation with a group of people earlier this year, they calculated that they would ...
Views: 1715 - Whatever Happened the Mindful Revolution? - by Submitted on Nov 14, 2016 from Willie HortonIt is now almost three years since Time Magazine announced “The Mindful Revolution” with a cover story that heralded a new age of happiness and productivity for both corporate America and , naturally, the people who make up corporate America… or, perhaps, the so-called little people… those who ...
Views: 1538 - Worry, Stress… and Pulling Yourself Together! - by Submitted on Apr 09, 2018 from Willie HortonIncreasingly, I find myself talking to people who, until the pull themselves together, live in fear of the future. We might casually call it "worry" - we might even label it stress. But all it is is unchecked useless thought. "All it is" is slightly misleading - because this fear keeps people ...
Views: 1883 - You Really Need to Upset Yourself - by Submitted on Apr 12, 2018 from Willie HortonI think that it was Jon Kabat Zinn - UMass Medical School and "father" of mindfulness-based stress management - who said "If meditation is making you feel uncomfortable, then it's working!". Change is uncomfortable - we inherently resist it - and meditation brings about major change in how we ...
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