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Monthly Archives: November 2010
What Flowers in November for you?
On my morning walk, the air grey and moist, the woods grey and bare, yellow pompoms of confetti on the witch hazel shrubs among the pine trees caught my eye. What’s going on? This is November! Is something seriously wrong with the woods? Is this global warming? Why is this bush blooming now while everything [...]
Posted in Persistence, Purpose, Training, Uncategorized Tagged change for good, change management, change management training, Change Quest, forty days, Forty Days to Change for Good, Grow, Quixote Consulting, Resiliency, resiliency training, Resiliency: Five Keys to Success, rhythm, ritual, ritual to support change, Rob Fletcher Comments closed
This morning, in all its fleeting, eternal glory
This morning just after dawn, as I was bringing wood in for the stove, I noticed a thin skin of ice in the standing water in the tomato planter on the porch. The sunlight hitting it revealed a large crystal webbed design, as if a snowflake had been magnified a thousand times – beautiful! An [...]
Posted in Persistence, Purpose, Training Tagged change for good, change management, change management training, Change Quest, forty days, Forty Days to Change for Good, Quixote Consulting, Resiliency, resiliency training, Resiliency: Five Keys to Success, ritual, ritual to support change, Rob Fletcher Comments closed
Try a Gratitude Moment this Thanksgiving
“We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.” ~Thornton Wilder Let’s take a moment to return to what is in the word Thanksgiving – giving thanks. Gratitude is one of the key ingredients for happiness according to positive psychology research. I can back that [...]
Posted in Happiness, Persistence, Positive Psychology, Purpose, Training Tagged change for good, change management, change management training, Change Quest, forty days, Forty Days to Change for Good, gratitude, Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity, gratitude quotes, Quixote Consulting, Resiliency, resiliency training, Resiliency: Five Keys to Success, ritual, ritual to support change, Rob Fletcher, Thornton Wilder, We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures, William Faulkner Comments closed
Ritual Trumps Self-Discipline – Here’s why
Raise your hand if this is true for you: Have you ever made any New Years resolutions? Have you kept all of your resolutions? Okay, hands down. Wait, I didn’t see any hands up. Okay, new question. Have you brushed your teeth today? I’ll bet you have! There is one big reason why in the [...]
Posted in Persistence, Positive Psychology, Training Tagged change for good, change management, change management training, Change Quest, chocolate chip cookie beet experiment, Energizer bunny, forty days, Forty Days to Change for Good, gyroscope, perpetual motion machine, Positive Psychology, Quixote Consulting, renewable energy, Resiliency, resiliency training, Resiliency: Five Keys to Success, ritual, ritual to support change, Ritual vs self-discipline, Rob Fletcher, self-discipline, self-discipline is worn out after ten minutes, yoga, yoga ritual Comments closed
The story of the chocolate chip cookies and the beets: Why You Have Less Self-Discipline Than You Thought
Research subjects were brought into a waiting room with a chair to sit in and a plate piled high with hot, freshly baked cookies. They were told that the experiment was running a little late, to sit down and wait and please don’t touch the cookies, they’re for a different experiment. Ten minutes later, they [...]
Posted in Persistence, Purpose, Training Tagged change for good, change management, change management training, Change Quest, chocolate chip cookie beet experiment, forty days, Forty Days to Change for Good, Quixote Consulting, Resiliency, resiliency training, Resiliency: Five Keys to Success, ritual, ritual to support change, Ritual vs self-discipline, Rob Fletcher, self-discipline, self-discipline is worn out after ten minutes, Tal Ben-Shahar Comments closed
Rilke, nature and faith (from my first day of change)
Here’s what came to me on my first of my forty days of change. A walk in the woods on a cold, sunny morning brought out the same word I noticed twice while reading my favorite autumn poet, Rainer Maria Rilke’s poems last night. That word is faith. Rilke trusted the falling that autumn brings [...]
Posted in Persistence, Purpose, Training Tagged And yet there is Someone, change for good, change management, change management training, Change Quest, faith, forty days, Forty Days to Change for Good, hold up all this falling, I have faith in all those things that are not yet said, I have faith in nights, nature, Quixote Consulting, Rainer Maria Rilke, Resiliency, resiliency training, Resiliency: Five Keys to Success, Rilke, ritual, ritual to support change, Rob Fletcher, The leaves are falling…we’re all falling, whose hands infinitely calm Comments closed
My evening ritual for Forty Nights to Change
For my Forty Days of Change I’m practicing both a morning and an evening ritual. Here’s my evening ritual. Feel free to take any ideas you like, or add your own ritual in the comments section. I don’t share this to put pressure on you to also have an evening ritual, but for me it’s [...]
Posted in Persistence, Purpose, Training Tagged change for good, change management, change management training, Change Quest, evening ritual, forty days, Forty Days to Change for Good, Quixote Consulting, Resiliency, resiliency training, Resiliency: Five Keys to Success, ritual, ritual to support change, Rob Fletcher Comments closed
My Morning ritual – Forty Mornings to Change
For my Forty Days of Change I’m practicing both a morning and an evening ritual. Here’s my morning ritual. Feel free to take any ideas you like, or add your own ritual in the comments section. Tomorrow I’ll share my evening ritual. My Morning Ritual (or What I Love’s In Need of Love Today) I’ve [...]
Posted in Persistence, Purpose, Training Tagged change for good, change management, change management training, Change Quest, forty days, Forty Days to Change for Good, forty mornings to change, Love's In Need of Love Today, morning ritual, My morning ritual, Quixote Consulting, Resiliency, resiliency training, Resiliency: Five Keys to Success, ritual, ritual to support change, Rob Fletcher, Stevie Wonder Comments closed
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