Category: Model of the world

For those of you unsure about who or what the Monkey is –  join the club – nobody really knows but what we are interested in is how to make the most of them if they can be of use to us. The first step in this process is...

Background Here’s some back ground to our view of success, what it is and how to have fun achieving it. At the end of the post we share six success questions that we believe provide the ultimate test of your readiness to achieve what you have set out to...

In our book The Misaligned Monkey  we talk about the appropriate style you could adopt for working with your Monkey. Those of you who have tried telling them or bullying them know that this just doesn’t work. Self Help There’s a trail of techniques and tools that litter the...

The Short answer is:                   Yes! we think so but, maybe control is the wrong word?   We think it’s certainly worth a little contemplation and study before you write off the possibility……..   What if I told you something you...

Procrastination how does it happen? why do we do it ?   Nobody says it better than Tim Urban   As you watch it see what it tells you about your relationship with your Monkey – Its also fun to retake the survey after watching it and see if...

Distraction That force that pulls you away from what it is you were doing or planning to do. It can be a short sharp intervention or a gentle and persistent nagging or attraction. The consensus from our delegates was that distraction was the ultimate cause that stopped them doing...

The Goal of Meditation and mindfulness? Students of meditation or mindfulness learn that an empty mind is an ideal one. An empty, quiet mind creates the conditions to allow us to experience an expanded consciousness of our real awareness. This provides us with opportunities to exist in the moment...

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...