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Monthly Archives: May 2010
Slow Beauty
“In beauty may I walk…” – Navajo chant Here are some tips to help you slow down through beauty from Quixote Consulting‘s Resiliency: Five Keys to Success corporate training program. Think of where you drive the fastest and where you drive (voluntarily) slowest. When we drive on tree-lined streets we slow down. Beauty engages us [...]
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Mindless is okay too
Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes, and the grass grows by itself. ~ Zen Proverb If you’ve been reading my recent posts about mindfulness from Quixote Consulting‘s Resiliency: Five Keys to Success corporate training program, you’ve noticed that I’m standing up in favor of mindfully moving through what you do already. Today I’ll stand up for mindlessness. [...]
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Pick Your Pleasures on Purpose
In Quixote Consulting‘s Resiliency: Five Keys to Success corporate training program I invite people to focus on play by picking their pleasures on purpose. This increases happiness levels. What does that mean? Read on! You may have noticed the difference in your level of enjoyment between ordering something on Netflix and channel-surfing (what my friend [...]
Posted in Play Tagged business resilience, business reslience, corporate training, corporate training programs, Happiness, human resilience, Positive Psychology, promoting resiliency, psychological resilience, Quixote Consulting, resilence, Resilency, resilent, resilience, resilience psychology, resilience thinking, Resilience training, Resiliency, resiliency training, Resiliency: Five Keys to Success, resilient, slow up, stress resilience Comments closed
The 80/20 principle and the 20/80 principle
In Quixote Consulting‘s Resiliency: Five Keys to Success corporate training program I invite people to leverage the 80/20 principle. What does that mean? Read on! Have you heard of the 80/20 principle? It states that only 20% of what we do takes care of 80% of the work. Research shows this to be true again [...]
Posted in Passion Tagged 20/80 principle, 50/50 principle, 80/20 principle, business resilience, business reslience, corporate training, corporate training programs, Howard Gardner, human resilience, promoting resiliency, psychological resilience, Quixote Consulting, resilence, Resilency, resilent, resilience, resilience psychology, resilience thinking, Resilience training, Resiliency, resiliency training, Resiliency: Five Keys to Success, resilient, stress resilience Comments closed
The Power of the Positive No
I love to read and mention a lot of books in Quixote Consulting‘s training programs that people might like to check out. The title that most people get excited is one by William Ury. It’s called The Power of a Positive No. Why? I think it’s because they realize how much nicer their life would [...]
Posted in Persistence, Training Tagged Positive No, Positive No training, Power of Postive No, Quixote Consulting, The Power of the Positive No, William Ury Comments closed
Nothing to fear…but fear itself?
“Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” Franklin Delano Roosevelt It’s not easy breaking through habitual patterns. Especially in the beginning it can in fact be quite challenging as fears rise up. But, you’re better and bigger than your fears and in fact you can [...]
Posted in Passion, Persistence, Play, Positive Psychology, Purpose, Put It Together, Training Tagged business resilience, business reslience, corporate training, corporate training programs, FDR, Franklin Roosevelt, human resilience, Positive Psychology, promoting resiliency, psychological resilience, Quixote Consulting, resilence, Resilency, resilent, resilience, resilience psychology, resilience thinking, Resilience training, Resiliency, resiliency training, Resiliency: Five Keys to Success, resilient, savoring, slow up, stress resilience Comments closed
Life in the Slow Lane
In Quixote Consulting‘s Resiliency: Five Keys to Success corporate training program and Green Team Quest I invite people to try out the slow lane. What does that mean? Read on! “Life in the fast lane, surely make you lose your mind.” – The Eagles The German poet Rainer Maria Rilke wrote, “I live my life [...]
Posted in Play, Team Building, Training Tagged business resilience, business reslience, corporate training, corporate training programs, green team building, green team building program, Green Team Quest, human resilience, Positive Psychology, promoting resiliency, psychological resilience, Quixote Consulting, resilence, Resilency, resilent, resilience, resilience psychology, resilience thinking, Resilience training, Resiliency, resiliency training, Resiliency: Five Keys to Success, resilient, slow up, stress resilience Comments closed
Mindful or mindless – how do you want your day?
In Quixote Consulting‘s Resiliency: Five Keys to Success corporate training program I invite people to practice doing things mindfully. What does that mean? Read on! Mindful vs. Mindless – What’s the difference? “Mindfulness begins with the observation that mindlessness pervades much of human activity. We fail to notice huge swaths of experience. We act and [...]
Posted in Training Tagged business resilience, business reslience, corporate training, corporate training programs, Ellen Langer, Happiness, human resilience, Martin Seligman, Office Yoga, Positive Psychology, promoting resiliency, psychological resilience, Quixote Consulting, resilence, Resilency, resilent, resilience, resilience psychology, resilience thinking, Resilience training, Resiliency, resiliency training, Resiliency: Five Keys to Success, resilient, slow up, stress resilience Comments closed
Why Slowing Up Lets You Persist
In Quixote Consulting‘s Resiliency: Five Keys to Success corporate training program I invite people to try on a concept I call ‘slowing up. What does that mean? Read on! What speed you live your life is a choice. It’s important to remember that. The world may seem to be getting faster and faster, with the [...]
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Taking it all in – in praise of savoring