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Welcome to Your Work - Life Inspired Blog

You are a good person and your work can reflect it as long as your heart stays open and your ego, ambition and lifestyle choices don't scew it up.

We're here to help you stay balanced, keep your heart open, maintain your integrity and most important of all, stay inspired at home and at work even in the face of challenges.

Please enjoy this blog and visit us at our web site if we can be of more support. Leading a team or a business really is the call of every human heart and we're committed to helping you stay inspired.

Chris Walker

Human Potential

If you had 100 people in a company and had to reduce the number to 50, how would you choose, who would stay and who would go?

There are three simple options.

1. Examine performance and see how people have been performing to date and keep the high performers.

2. Do examinations and tests to see how emotionally engaged people are in the company direction, activities and culture add this to step    1. and choose the higher performing, most engaged.

3. None of the above....

I would choose 3. Let me explain why...

Leadership for Tomorrow 11.1.11

Last year, there were many people I know and love who were just hanging on by their fingernails to get through the year. It's not healthy, just hanging on for holidays... Better Self-Leadership is needed.

Hanging out for holidays means a sharp increase in stress, an admission that the current pace is unsustainable and that process is not suitable. 

Lets just nail down a few facts of life before we continue:

1. People over 35 are struggling to keep up with the pace of life, work and love... that's statistically evidenced at Universities throughout the world... 

2. That pace is accelerating, it's going to make being fifty, productive and competitive in any front line management role extremely challenging.

Seven Seven Minute Ways to Save $7,777,777.77 on Self Help

1. Become a Myth Buster

I mean if you look at it, Self Help books sold by just seven Self-Help Authors last year added up to over $20 million in the US alone in a country blaming the President, God, and Moslems for their problems... One could derive from this the Oprah's book club might be missing the mark..... Stop buying SELF-HELP Books - Videos, workshops and conferences...including the ridiculous notion of Happiness sold by the Dalia Lama (whose secret to happiness is to stop being ambitious - yeah, right that works!) .... Just go on a self-help diet. Everyone who has ever done Self-Help comes out the same at the end as who they were at the start... so, save yourself the myth.  Saving $7,777,777.77 which is close to the estimated amount of money each westerner will waste fluffing around trying to fix things that aren't broken.

Seeking Wisdom Book Review

Maybe my favorite book ever. Read many times. Incredibly rich. It's a great overview of the lessons of Charlie Munger (partner of Warren Buffett) - and his approach to checklists of multi-disciplinary models to guide clear thinking. Main point: if you can just avoid mistakes, you're doing better than most. So it's a catalog of the most common or important mistakes. Focused on investing, but can be applied to life. Derek Sivers Book Review 

Inspired Teams and Groups

Living inspired but working with un-inspired people is really heart breaking. A team operates at the consciousness of the lowest conversation. 

One member of a 20 person team who is uninspired and whose EGO is in defence mode can rule the results of the team no matter what process the team implements. 

Conscious conversation, communication and cooperation can make a vast and surprising difference to a team's results and the enjoyment of being a part of it.

Creating Outcomes You Deserve Blog 5# - Emotional Resilience

In this blog I want to share the following:

1. How to become bullet proof to other people's emotional rubbish
2. How to stay open to everything yet affected by nothing
3. How to prioritise your day so your emotional residue doesn't kill you
4. How to stay grounded when your natural constitution says "flip out."

Step 1. Take No Prisoners

The best place to get run over is in the middle of the road.

The hardest place to sit, is on the fence.

Compromise kills clarity.

Ideas are ideas, thoughts are thoughts, words are words: results are reality.

You may find this offensive but 99% of human struggle for happiness comes from compromise. That means it's self induced.

Say you have a team working for you. They have ideas, thoughts, emails, words and all that is full of emotion. What's real?

At home your partner says "I love you" and then proceeds to behave in contrast. What's real? Results are real.

If someone criticises you recognise their ignorance. Remember their ignorance, it doesn't change overnight. People don't change. People grow new layers over old layers - they don't change. They don't need to change, they're perfect. So, just accept people are who they are.

Avoid wanting things to change.

Instead of wanting them to change, accept them as they are and instead of compromising your results, choose to be with or without their company. It's a big world, nothing to be afraid of, nature abhors a vacuum so, instead of compromise, witness, accept then choose to be there or not.

Step 2. Separate Love and Like

I love my ex wife, but I don't like her.

Does it mean I have unfinished business with her? Absolutely not. She's perfect as she is, benefits and drawbacks to everything. I just wouldn't want to live in that space.

Most emotional weakness comes because people are incomplete, they have unfinished business with an ex.

Make sure you love people in your past (means you are beyond judgement, resentment, dislike, anger, or wanting them to change) - that's love. It doesn't mean you have to go to bed with them.

Love is not exclusive. Really if you block love to one thing, you block it to everything. If you can't love a cockroach, you can't love your partner (no link intended here).

Block love to one person, blocked love to everyone. Given everyone has every trait, this is pretty obvious really.

The question about who you love and who you like comes down to something called "Intent"

If you meet a sexy person then you can love and like them. But if their intent is to break up your life, marriage or bank account, you can keep the love and dump the like.

Step 3. Emotional Resilience

What do Zen, Yoga, Sport, Business and Relationships have in common?

Emotional Resilience is the answer.

What do art, romance, sexiness, design, self help, new age, creativity have in common?

Emotional Not Resilience is the answer.

If you live without feeling emotion you may as well be a terracotta statue of yourself - it'll last for thousands of years but life would be just so dull.

If you live with feeling and emotion you may as well give all your money to your ex partner, send the kids to therapy, and buy yourself a ticket to Byron Bay where all the other fruit cakes end up basking in the sun and drinking wheat-grass for entertainment.

So, what's the option? How do you live a spirited, joyful, successful and sensitive life that has emotion and not emotion.....?

It took me 35 years finding and then stepping on teachers to find out.

First, emotions are essential because that's how you get to know yourself. You are the sum total of what you feel.

Second, people don't know you at all from your emotions, they only think they do.

Third, people do what you want because you inspire an emotion in them... and the emotion in them that you inspire is the emotion in you that you feel.

Say I'm happy and go to a party. I stand in the corner and just be happy. There's a 100/1 probability that I'm going to meet someone who is happy and looking for someone happy.

Now, I go to another party. I stand in the corner and feel sad. There's a 100/1 probability that I'm going to meet an unhappy person who is going to be faking being happy in order to cheer me up.

So, this emotional resilience doesn't come from the lack of emotion, it comes from the mastery over them. Can you choose how you feel? Of course.

Simply evaluate anything, find the balance, focus on the positive or negative in order to trigger the appropriate emotion.

Step 4. Prioritise your day so your emotional residue doesn't kill you

Although there are ways to cause us to turn up at work and home, many of those tricks don't flush yesterday's emotional residue down the toilet. Instead most tricks for personal presence put yesterday behind us, along with the dust and dirt we accumulate.

Tricks with emotional process are called illness, disease, exhaustion, burn out and it's why holidays exist.

I think everyday is a holy day, so it's wiser to flush yesterday's rubbish rather than store it accidentally.

To flush yesterdays stuff, best to do it yesterday. Like concrete, yesterday's stuff can become hard and need a jack hammer if left overnight.

First define finished.

Finished a day's work means, today is complete. And tomorrow will come soon enough

Complete does not mean the lack of unfinished business

Instead it means, emotionally balanced.

There's no mind space in the conscious world being occupied by something done today or to be done tomorrow.

Achieve this with process. A Four Column Cleansing. A colonic for the brain.

The first time I summited a trekking peak in Nepal Himalayas, I got such a shock. I'd carried my emotional baggage to the summit. It blew me away to think that after six months of preparation, professional guidance and more, the core objective of reaching the summit failed. I was still the same me on top of that hill as I was at the bottom. Like Santa, I'd carried my sack of gifts up with me.

Process your work baggage before you come home, not after.

Step 5. Stay grounded when your natural constitution says "flip out."

Ok, I admit, sometimes I feel angry and frustrated. But I'm a fire constitution and I know that excess fire is anger and frustration. It usually means I ate too many chilli's, too much wine or overdid the Tabasco sauce. It's no big drama. I just eat cucumber or watermelon to cool down and get back into balance.

As Einstein Said "Sometimes a Cigar is just a Cigar"

So, sometimes our "lunatic" moments are just "lunatic moments" and not cause for 10 years psychotherapy or devotion to a new guru. Those guys have as many if not more problems than their clients. Be careful.

Come to balance everyday in the morning and evening.

Create a permanent ritual and no matter who or what is sleeping in your bed, get up and do the ritual.

Ground yourself each day by being thankful for what is, rather than what could be.

Hope this helps your emotional resilience....

Next Two Weeks Theme? What We Fear Comes Near..... Creating the Outcomes you Deserve

I once took a guy to Nepal who was afraid of getting altitude sickness, so afraid in fact, that he talked himself into it.

I called this attitude sickness.

An exercise we used to do in corporate experiential learning programs (that was my business for ten years) was to get people to walk on a wooden plank that was placed on the ground. They'd clown around and it was just a big laugh.

Then we'd bring in two step ladders.

We'd mount the plank at each end on the middle step of the step ladders and then ask people to walk across. The fun went out even though there was only one meter to fall. Then we raised the plank to the higher rung. Half chose not to try.

What was the difference?

Fear? Not really. Because when we asked people to do it in private, it was all fine.

What affected people the most was comparison. Comparing how they were going across to how others were doing it. Seems at some deep core level we're competitive, and hate losing.

Fear of failure is worse than failure. My client was not really worried about altitude sickness, he was worried about failure. He worried himself into his own reality.

There was another person, a lady who weighed more than three buffalo. She was no more than 5 ft tall in high trekking boots. Before she left for the trip, she had to have all her trekking gear hand made, nobody makes xxxxxxxxxL in children's height.

We did a lot of work on her mental state before she left. She learned that nothing is ever missing, and that she's as skinny as she is fat, somewhere.

When we got to Nepal people poked her to see what she was carrying. Instead of being provoked by it, she loved it. She'd dealt with her fears and frustrations over her body.

Some people, like my first altitude sickness client, want to be a winner and as soon as there's evidence to the contrary, they withdraw. It just means they have a very high expectation of themselves, in which they're a legend in their own lunch-box.

And that, of all things, is what we need to avoid.

 

 

Is Your Business - Inspired?

Inspired Business Plus Inspired People Create Excellence

Score each of the 10 questions out of ten. Ten being the top and Zero being the worst. Add up the scores. If your business scores below 50 you're looking at disaster in the form of a Business Tsunami. It's like trying to run a marathon with obesity, cholesterol and high blood pressure. If your company scores between 50 and 75 - welcome to average, mundane and low profit. If you score 100% then you need to raise the bar.

1. Inspired Business' Make More Money .. Are Your Business/People Inspired?

How many times a day do you say "SHOULD" or "GOT TO" - every time you do, you're losing money, depreciating client loyalties and losing valuable communication time. It's a battle because Should and Got to - are not walking your talk. If you find yourself at this low end of the business management curve, maybe it's time for some self-awareness and growth. Who is going to follow or buy from someone who is not inspiring? 

2. Inspired Business Achieve Excellence ... Is Your Business Busy Enough?

Nothing destroys the health of a person or a business more than complacency. Are you pushing yourself enough or cruising for a bruising. It might sound great at first but cruising is like a tree that stops growing.

3. Inspired People Inspire Others .... Are Your People Turning up?

I don't care if you cut your foot off with an axe this morning, get over it and turn up for your work. Ok, there are some circumstances that press the past into the present, but "oh, gee I have a worry about next month, or oh, gee I am stressed over my upcoming needlework exam are not. If you have ambitions to rise at work, then know that the problems you face will rise with that so, too your process must rise.

4. Inspired Business' Lead Markets - Are You Leading or Just Lazy Managing?

Management means looking after the present moment, making sure everyone is comfortable and productive today. Leadership means having the awareness and understanding of the future that means people increase their odds of success in whatever endeavour they are working with the leader on. A manager climbs down the rope to help someone through a crack in the wall, a leader leaves instructions and hand holds.

5. Inspired Leaders Are at Ease... Are Your People Stressed?

Stress, negative emotion and complaints are a sure sign that emotional - egoism has taken over from leadership, and that the boat is sinking. Do you know what stress looks like? There are many early warning signs.

6. Inspired Business' Are in Harmony .... Are You staying ahead of Your team?

For every $ of training spent on a direct report $2 needs to be spent on their leaders. Very often, senior staff invest in training for "the team" but forget themselves. That means the team beneath is growing up toward the top and if the top stays in the same zone, there's going to be collision. So, are you waiting for a fire or are you installing fire retardant. When the fire happens it's too late to be thinking, "I wish I'd thought of that."

7. Inspired Business' Thrive on Competition .... Are You Growing in Chaos and Order?

Some organisations operate on the idea that perfection is the elimination of incompetence, and this creates a false-hood in communication. FIT companies know everyone rises to their own incompetence, and can grow through it. WE rise to incompetence but we grow in order. So, the last time someone asked you, "how's your work life?" did you answer, "I'm really busy" or "No problem - all is fine and under control." Think this through.

8. Inspired Business' Continually Evolve - Is Your Focus In the Right Place?

The evolution of any organism is 100% conditional on a constant focus on process improvement to get more done in less time. Some however, prefer to expand the work to fill the time so they are never in open space... are you obsessed with filling work time or are you obsessed with completions in less time?

9. Inspired Business' Have Happy People -  Are Your Leaders Balanced at Work?

In 1890, people went home to balance their work day. Now, imbalance costs productivity during the day so skills for sustaining balance, and therefore healthy decision making, are essential throughout the day. If you come home with less energy than you went to work with in the morning then don't blame me if your partner starts fishing in a different pond. Incompetence at work should not be compensated for at home.

10. Inspired Business Inspire Ideas .... Are You Ambitious Enough or Just Wishing for Rest?

When a person goes into cruise mode, or achieves their goals without trying, there's a good chance that the bar has been lowered to meet reality. Lowering the bar to meet reality is the 100% cause of an awful word... REGRET... Wasting time compromised - life and love are too precious to waste hanging out twiddling your thumbs.

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Innerwealth - Living Inspired

The world is a better place for you being in it and that is important to remember.

We often compare who we are to who we want to become and this creates a tension.

Sometimes that tension becomes a repeated habitual conversation with outselves, like "I know I can do better than this" or "what's wrong with me."

it's wise, however, to sit down every now and then and remember that the world is a better place for your existence in it.

With the pace of life we often forget that being is as important as doing and being simply means to take in the energy of life that's free.... like sitting under a tree.

Simply remember that being is best done when you are alone. Not with the kids, partner, work, emails, food, drink, movies, laptop, running shoes, tennis raquet, golf cart, plans for next year's holiday or sitting beside a swimming pool.

Being, as opposed to doing is getting empty, surrendering and emptying your head, not filling it with distractions.

To create healthy Be Time, there must be intensity and yet, no requirement for responsibility to others. Alone, in silence (no ipod) eyes open, focussed on just one simple thing, like your breath or getting a massage.

Rumi on Deliberation

Deliberation

A friend remarks to the Prophet, "Why is it
I get screwed in business deals?
It’s like a spell. I become distracted
by business talk and make the wrong decision."

Muhammad replies, "Stipulate with every transaction
that you need three days to make sure."

Deliberation is one of the qualities of God.
Throw a dog a bit of something.
He sniffs to see if he wants it.

Be that careful.
Sniff with your wisdom-nose.
Get clear. Then decide.

Human Consciousness - Global Change

Your heart will go out to the victims of abuse and those who suffer at the hands of violence. There is, a distinct and ugly side to humanity that remains, even in this era of social awareness, prevalent.

The question that must be asked is "what can I do about it?"

"wishing for enlightenment is like fighting for peace"

To expect the world to change without changing something, is the purest definition of insanity, and it's close friend, depression. We must, if we expect global consciousness to evolve, begin with the recognition that some things we have tried - don't work.

Delegate or Deputise

The difference between deputising someone to do something and delegating that same something is huge.

Deputise means to hand over control and move on. Delegate means to half hand over control and half move on.

When you deputise, you need to have something else to do, otherwise, you'll be stuggling to find purpose and most probably start sticking your nose back into what you let go of.

What If?

Young minds living blind, don't know the right questions yet,

they speak in when and how, and maybe and whenever

but the old wise mind always asks "WHAT IF?"

What if your wife is shagging the milkman?

What if you lose your job tomorrow?

What if you break a leg?

What if someone dies?

The wise person knows the laws of probablility are outside the context of today or this moment. They require imagination.

Text Messaging - The Newest Leakage

From Fast Company Blog

The days of getting caught talking in class are over--and so aren't the days of even getting caught.

According to a new survey by app developer textPlus, which surveyed more than 600 of its users aged 13 to 17, texting is more rampant than ever in the classroom. A whopping 42.5% of teens admit to texting during class, and more than half of those say they text sometimes or constantly. What's more, nearly 80% of students say they've never gotten in trouble for texting during class, suggesting the eyes-down, cell-under-the-desk method is slipping past even your most yard-stick taunting school teachers.

With more than 42% of teens admitting to bringing a cell phone or iPod Touch to class, isn't it time schools start cracking down? And if technology is to become more a part of education, how will teachers ever track students who are already able to pull off using these devices when they're not supposed to? As more and more gadgets enter the classroom, won't it just make it easier to find distractions?

For example, Houghton Mifflin, the world's largest provider of educational materials for K-12, today launched its first full-curriculum algebra app for the iPad. Called the HMH Fuse, the publisher's aim is to find a new interactive platform to move "beyond the one-way experience of a print or digital textbook," according to a company statement.

And to gear up for the app, Houghton Mifflin is commencing a year-long pilot in several California school districts to see whether iPad-delivered content stacks up against regular, old boring textbooks. In total, 400 iPads will be piloted, and the app will provide "real-time student-specific performance feedback," and comprehensive student tracking tools.

Can you imagine how kids will game the classroom once they have the full-might of the iPad's app store? How will teachers ever keep up when they can't even keep up with cell phones?

Part of the problem is that kids don't feel guilty for their actions. Roughly 74% of students don't believe it's wrong to text during school time, a mindset which permeates not just learning but homework too: About one in three teens admit to using text lingo (e.g. "u" or "4" or "imho") in written school assignments. How do we change this? Perhaps we start with the parents: A shocking 66% of teens report that they've received texts from their parents, even when their parents know they're in class.

Monkey see, monkey do.

5 Essential Keys to Great Self Leadership

• Wisdom .. Wisdom is better than Experience. Experience costs more, puts stress where stress does not have to be, and reinvents the wheel each and every decision. Instead, wisdom means foundation, taking the risk out of choices and making fantastic investments where others can’t. Wisdom simply means, getting past emotional and mental Wheel Spin.

• Inspired Vision ... People love to work for those who are inspired and without inspiration work becomes an unattractive proposition and disasters follow. People like to be led by, support and invest in people who are really inspired about their work. Making money out of something is nice, but also being inspired about what we do is even nicer.

• Total Package ... Success in business includes a great home life. Money doesn’t buy happiness - even though we try to make it do so - and therefore, good management includes how we feel, our health, mind and relationship.

• Adaptation... The person who can implement plan B fastest will always succeed. They say, if you want to make the God’s laugh, write down your goals for plan A. We say to entrepreneurs in MBA Nature’s way, “Evolveyabastard” and that’s for ladies too...

• Truth ... If a person can stop 110% then they can go 110%. So, an entrepreneur needs to know how to recover fast, put the brakes on, turn up in truth, cut out the fluff, arrive in the moment, where ever they are, turn up 110% and that’s a real skill.

Are You FIT for Work? A Self Study Assessment.

Score each of the 10 questions out of ten. Ten being the top and Zero being the worst. Add up the scores. If your company scores below 50%, disaster in the form of a company Tsunami (often called a major restructure or cost reduction program) is on the cards. Assessment.

1. Do You Walk Your Talk?"

How many times a day do you say "SHOULD" or "GOT TO" - every time you do, you're losing a battle because that's not walking your talk. That's talking your walk. If you find yourself at this low end of the evolution curve, maybe it's time for some spin. Who is going to follow someone who doesn't walk their talk except someone else who doesn't walk their talk?

2. Is there a healthy intensity?

Nothing destroys the health of a person or a business more than complacency. Are you pushing yourself enough or cruising for a bruising. I't might sound great at first but cruising is like a tree that stops growing.....

3. Are you Turning up?

I don't care if you cut your foot off with an axe this morning, get over it and turn up for your work. Ok, there are some circumstances that press the past into the present, but "oh, gee I have a worry about next month, or oh, gee I am stressed over my upcoming needlework exam are not. If you have ambitions to rise at work, then know that the problems you face will rise with that so, too your process must rise

4. Is your emphasis on leadership or management or both?

Management means looking after the present moment, making sure everyone is comfortable and productive today. Leadership means having the awareness and understanding of the future that means people increase their odds of success in whatever endeavour they are working with the leader on. A manager climbs down the rope to help someone through a crack in the wall, a leader leaves instructions and hand holds.

5. Are You stressed?

Stress, negative emotion and complaints are a sure sign that emotional - egoism has taken over from leadership, and that the boat is sinking. Do you know what stress looks like? There are many early warning signs.

6. Are You staying ahead of Your team?

For every $ of training spent on a direct report $2 needs to be spent on their leaders. Very often, senior staff invest in training for "the team" but forget themselves. That means the team beneath is growing up toward the top and if the top stays in the same zone, there's going to be collision. So, are you waiting for a fire or are you installing fire retardant. When the fire happens it's too late to be thinking, "I wish I'd thought of that."

7. Are You growing in Chaos and Order?

Some organisations operate on the idea that perfection is the elimination of incompetence, and this creates a false-hood in communication. FIT companies know everyone rises to their own incompetence, and can grow through it. WE rise to incompetence but we grow in order. So, the last time someone asked you, "how's your work life?" did you answer, "I'm really busy" or "No problem - all is fine and under control." Think this through.

8. Is your focus on doing more in less time - or expanding work to fill the time you give it?

The evolution of any organism is 100% conditional on a constant focus on process improvement to get more done in less time. Some however, prefer to expand the work to fill the time so they are never in open space... are you obsessed with filling work time or are you obsessed with completions in less time?

9. Are You balanced at work?

In 1890, people went home to balance their work day. Now, imbalance costs productivity during the day so skills for sustaining balance, and therefore healthy decision making, are essential throughout the day. If you come home with less energy than you went to work with in the morning then don't blame me if your partner starts fishing in a different pond. Incompetence at work should not be compensated for at home.

10. How ambitious are you?

When a person goes into cruise mode, or achieves their goals without trying, there's a good chance that the bar has been lowered to meet reality. Lowering the bar to meet reality is the 100% cause of an awful word... REGRET... Wasting time compromised - life and love are too precious to waste hanging out twiddling your thumbs.

Your Energy

Sometimes, as a teacher, I feel like a paramedic at a car accident. I arrive and asses people.

Sadly, some people are just beyond help, I have to admit that I can't help.

I wouldn't like to be the leader of those people at work. It would be like attaching a ball and chain to my leg.

Sometimes in Nepal treks people turn up all that way from home and yet, they are beyond help too.

Seems with money and a little determination people do survive life even when they're in a bad way.

What is the measure of a lost soul? A person beyond leadership or beyond the grasp of a teacher?

Energy is the word, or, in more fancy language, CHI - Prana - Inspiration.

Inspiration is Chi, Prana - Life Force.  The  intangible life force we carry, share, store and build as part of our daily routine.  A dead person has no Chi - it goes away from their body in the last dying breath.

Work Inspired - Work Smart

 When I paddle my sea kayak with my coach, I sometimes lift my gaze from my training discipline and watch him. Here I am doing a 1,000 meter solid sprint while he paddles beside me, watching, he's hardly working up a sweat.

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Are You Keeping Up with Things? What's in Your Tool Kit?

Every trades-person has a toolbox. My Dad used to say, "you can tell a good tradesman by his tools."

So, the question is, "What's in your tool box?"

I did an MBA in 1986, and yet, I still put those initials on my business card to impress the impressible.

But, what use is an MBA done in 1986? The truth is, it is like an old rusty tool in my tool box, and really, not too reliable.

I did a BE (Bachelor of Engineering) in 1972. Now I still put that on my business card to impress the impressible but really, would you ask me to design a building structure and then put your life in it? I hope not.

Leadership from the Heart

“First of all, the Leader must be one with the Earth. He/She has had to find the time to understand themselves through the eyes of nature, learning who they are and where they fit in. They have had to break down the barriers that keep them separated from the natural world so that there is no inner or outer dimension. Their prime source of understanding and knowledge must come to them from the Earth, and they must realise that they are nothing more than a hollow vessel that the Earth uses to heal. They listen with their heart not with their head, and they truly care for people. They love their enemies, for they believe that what you send out, so too will you get in return. Their care toward the land and their brothers and sisters is a powerful driving force. They are not only a leader of people but a healer of animals, plants, and Earth. Their power can be felt in the love they have for their followers, competitors, earth, family, animals and humanity, and the faith they have in life's goodness."

A Great Article: Secrets to Leadership in Helping People be Happy at Work.

When the economy goes down, and jobs are scarce, surveys show that people are more happy at work. Why?

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Are You Above or Below Average in Your Job

Do you delude yourself into thinking everyone else is below standards?

A recent study revealed the following facts:

Being Inspired

1. Get Past Emotional Judgement

Human Nature is an amazing science. People look different, talk different even act different but really, are we actually all that different from each other?

A deep understanding of the essence of Human Nature helps you put judgement, emotion, uncertainty and conflicts, all of which block inspiration into context, and out of the way.

2. EGO versus INSPIRATION.

This is not an easy differentiation because our EGO or what is more often called “OUR PERSONALITY” looks and feels to all intents and purposes to be who we are. We echo our beliefs and values as if, well having pride in those things makes us a better person. That’s where conflict, anger, disharmony, dysfunction and team disturbance begins.

Innerwealth - The Book

 Innerwealth on Amazon - Innerwealth is an exceptional insight into working with heart and inspiration. By integrating personal development, business development, global change and life mastery into one philosophy, Chris Walker challenges the conventional way of managing our lives. Innerwealth offers a wealth of insights and advice to help us discover and harness out own spirituality and put this into practice in the way we work with others and the way we dream about our careers.

This book is about business change through personal change. It is a rebuke at so much of what is being done at present in the name of good business, self help and cultural development. Chris Walker's aim has been to find a way of life which is REAL, non denominational, solves world problems instead of making them and is open and transparent. He achieves this using the universal laws of nature.

Happy, Better, Faster - Workplace Reform At Last a New Paradigm that Works for Everyone

Clearly, a person who spends most of their life at work unhappy, is going to come home unhappy, and that places a huge pressure on family life, especially relationships. In other words a miserable person, stuck in a work ethic that doesn't work, is going to come home with the explicit ambition of sucking that missing happiness out of their family, partner and children. That, in turn, causes push back and leads to unhappiness at home.

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Redundancy - Reinvent Yourself Yearly - Or Plan for Redundancy

Yesterday, my client shared how proud he was that he'd read a book I'd recommended, "the Four Hour Working Week by Timothy Ferriss" with a friend in need of some reorganisation in his business life. I commented on the fact that he's probably been instrumental in selling 20 of those books, and yet, not many of mine and this led to the writing of this article.

VIP - The Happiest Day of Your Life

I would encourage you to print this article, to read and re read it. To question it, to understand this because I think it is without competition in the most important article I've had the inspiration to bring through my heart and hands to paper. Share it with those you love - I truly believe in this stream of consciousness inspiration exists in a deep and special way.

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Probably the most important article I've ever written

Inspired at Work - Are You Turning Up or Turning Off

The challenge I have in my working career is turning off. I have rarely had the problem of not turning up. I'm too selfish for that.

Let me explain. The ultimate motivation to turn up at work is when you run the show. As an entrepreneur if you don't turn up, the ship sinks and your whole family suffers. Even with the flu, a dying friend, a funeral in the morning, a broken leg or domestic turbulence, there is no choice for an entrepreneur to turn up. If they don't the consequence is potential disaster on many levels of life.

I Love her world - I love her work

I love her work, I love her world... it's just so creative and five star

Short Story - What I Learned in 30 Years of Business Management: The Best Advice to Business People I can Share

When I was younger, my business ran me, and as a result, I became no human but a machine. I worked, I earned, I reacted, I took it home and tried to recover in time to do it again.

When I lead my business as a younger man, I thought about my business in my sleep, call this worry please. I thought about my business when I pushed my children on the swing in the park. I thought about tomorrow's meeting while I made love to my wife. My business ran me.

This has been my learning in life. To become the master rather than the deck hand. To steer the ship rather than be a passenger on it. To take charge of my business and not have it take charge of me.

Here is what I learned: