Can you trick yourself into changing? Others do. Milton Erickson, a dyslexic psychiatrist used his indirect hypnosis technique to trick his patients to change. He understood the power of our unconscious minds. If we believe it, then we make it true. Erickson could bypass the conscious filters to get the unconscious mind to initiate the [...]

Every so often, I get a call from a parent asking if I can help their child. They tell me how they heard I helped another parent’s child, hoping I can do the same for their child. I listen to what the parent believes is wrong. I am also listening to the restriction in the [...]

Change the Context If you’re continually focusing on changing yourself, maybe you need to change the context you operate in. Growing up with Asperger’s Syndrome and dyslexia, I learned to “cheat.” Achieving in the context I was put in often didn’t work for me, so I changed the rules. Specifically, I learned how to do [...]

What drives you or your organization? Four years ago, I started a men’s group in my town. I did it for many reasons, but mostly because I wanted one. When I started it, I knew that if we wanted to grow, we needed a goal bigger than just having a group meet once a week. [...]

How to Make the Powerful Easy You have an instinctual ability to transform your life. Buried in your unconscious-Carl Jung would call it your Collective Unconscious-you have an urge to grow. With this urge comes a deep skill set analogous to your instinctual capacity to survive. When you get out of your way, or out [...]

But she with Father Greed have hit the wall at once to co-create “The Great Disruption,” according to Paul Gilding, the Australian environmental expert. This quote and the title of the post is from a New York Times Op-Ed piece by Thomas L. Friedman a former chief economic correspondent for the Times and Pulitzer Prize [...]

If you’re not happy with what you’ve got, what radical changes are you willing to make to change what you’re getting? These are the words of Seth Godin. I certainly could it say it better. He is addressing marketing, but creating radical change to produce radical results holds true for everything, including our lives. What [...]

Listen  to this podcast of an old friend of mine interviewing me about how best to start her change process. Sue is a professional woman looking for more out of life – join us. [podcast]http://www.wholerevolution.com/wp-content/podcasts/Whole%20Revolution%20-%20interview%20-%20Sue%20-%201%2020090218.mp3[/podcast]