Category: Mindset
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3 Lessons on Focus from Dandapani
I first met Dandapani at an Entrepreneurs Organisation event in Istanbul in 2012, I have since met him in Boston and then helped bring him to Barcelona to spend a day with our Entrepreneurs’ Organisation chapter. Dandapani teaches some simple but highly important lessons about awareness and our mind, and how to be intentional about…
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Resourcefulness. Shifting to a Growth Mindset.
How to be Resourceful It is more valuable to be resourceful, than full of resources. It is more powerful to think in terms of possibilities, rather than what you could do with what you have now. Our imagination is an incredible gift, if we use it to imagine… not to find excuses. “Poverty is not…
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Our Brain is Teflon for the Positive, Velcro for the Negative
Neuroscience based Habits for Happiness… There is a saying that I heard recently from Elsa Punset… “Our brain is teflon for the positive and velcro for the negative” It is a powerful metaphor. It is solidly grounded in psychological research. In good relationships the ratio of positive to negative comments is 7:1. 1 negative comment…