Breathing:  We talk about breathing in the Misaligned Monkey : Our breathing is usually managed unconsciously to meet the needs of our body. It’s a vital bodily process delivering the oxygen we need on the inhale and removing the waste gasses on the exhale. Since breathing happens automatically, we...

We have all met the Monkey before. That voice or urge that can come as words, feelings, sights, or sounds. The thought that gives us good reasons to dither, to procrastinate, to become anxious about a future event or that can remind us of our past mistakes – It...

Stimulus and response Victor Frankel writes, “Between the stimulus and the response there is a space, and in this space lies our power and our freedom.” In our work with sales teams at Sales Academy Ltd., we found most sales people were in a hurry. They lived on the...

These notes refer to the Audio sessions we supply with your challenge.   You can download an audio introduction to the challenge here   Or download here  They make up the sessions the guide you through the whole 12 week course. You can see the recommended timetable here : Challenge Course timetable 2022 Join...

Comparisons We’ve been asked to share some typical scores so here is a selection of the results in July. This is not about competition its about understanding where other people feel they are so you can make more sense of your own situation. Completion Time It also shows that...

Sources of wisdom – Clichés Clichés are terms, phrases, or even ideas that capture or rather, once captured something valuable enough for them to repeated and used extensively. However, in the most part over use and common acceptance has led us to relegate them to the fringe. We hear...

Knowing what you want helps you in more ways than most of us realise. One way of  figuring out what you really want, not just what you think you want, is to use a future pacing exercise. Future pacing is often part of the ‘trail of tools and techniques’...

Change It’s obvious to most of us that if you want to change things you have to change some things. What if I told you that although most people we met on our programmes knew this very few actually carried it forward into their thinking or their actions. If...

Model of the world All of us share a common human experience of living on planet earth; we are born, we live and then we die. As we try to make sense of the world, understanding how things work and how we can use what we know to survive...