Issue #124, August 30 2023 Welcome to Insights and Implications! Last month, we told the story of Kate: a highly productive and driven non-profit leader who was leaving a trail of upset employees in the wake of her quest for speed and perfection. You can find that story here: https://insightprinciples.com/newsletter/impatient-execution/ This month, we’d like to share a bit more detail about Kate’s insight and how she is keeping herself accountable. Wishing you happy reading, All of us at Insight Principles Executing Execution Part 2: Feelings as a Guide Through interviews with Kate’s employees, we discovered that she would get impatient and snappy when
Issue #123, July 30 2023 Welcome to Insights and Implications! Have you ever worked with a motivated, ambitious and productive employee who could use some help with their leadership style? Or have you gotten this feedback yourself? This month’s newsletter explores how insight paves the way. We hope you enjoy it. All the best, All of us at Insight Principles Executing Execution Part 1: Impatience One of my clients – we’ll call her Kate – is an incredibly driven and productive manager in a well-respected non-profit in my town. In some respects, Kate is the type of employee that every organization
Issue #122, June 30 2023 Welcome to Insights and Implications! Isn’t it interesting that loosening our grip sometimes helps us steer the proverbial horse? This month, Nikki Platte is exploring this phenomenon while traveling with her young daughter, but the reflection applies to all of us. Read on for more. All the best, All of us at Insight Principles Letting Go I’m spending the week in Washington DC with my 8-year-old daughter, which mostly means I’m playing chase. And answering a ton of questions. And figuring out how to get everywhere and planning her snacks and our itinerary and shepherding her
Issue #121, May 31 2023 Welcome to Insights and Implications! This month, Nikki Platte reminds us that learning insight principles isn’t about doing anything, but simply understanding. Wishing you all the best, All of us at Insight Principles The Very Human Part of Learning Emotions are a totally normal human experience. However, when we start to realize that our experience of life is created via thought from inside our minds, a curious thing can happen: we might feel like we “should” be able to manage or control our thoughts, feelings, and emotions. But here’s the deal: we’re still human after learning Insight
Issue #120, April 27 2023 Welcome to Insights and Implications! In our two previous newsletters, Ken Manning shared the value and joy of being even-minded as an output of the power of understanding how the mind works. In this month’s newsletter, we look a little deeper at wisdom and how it can lead us to more stable even-mindedness. All of us at Insight Principles Even-mindedness Part 3: The Power of Wisdom With a little self-awareness, most of us realize, at some point, that we want to live with more calm and clarity. And yet, despite our good intentions, many of us live
The more that people wake up to their capacity to create, the less they create experiences that they don’t want. This realization frees up a tremendous amount of time for people I have been working with insight principles for many years and the single biggest difference is that I enjoy a much more creative life. Before learning about insight, I spent much of my time either worried, or deep in analytical thought, but I was unaware that this was going on. At the time I was a journalist and being interested in creative thinking, I would study writings
Interactions at work and at home have become less tense and frustrating and more simple and open I saw that my experience of every moment is coming from my own thoughts and not from what people are doing around me Trusting my innate capacity is far more important then trying to fulfill someone else’s definition of my role After being exposed to insight principles, I have decided that perhaps its highest and best use of this understanding has been and will be in its ability to simplify. The idea that everyone essentially has everything they need resonates with me. Understanding this
We generated better ideas in which everyone felt greater ownership To many executives, Insight Principles’ discussion of their methods might seem overly simplistic or “soft.” After all, to get great business results you need talented people with good analytic abilities and good data. But people often forget that how you make decisions – how you think – is also important. In that regard, this article addresses a significant business dilemma. As managers, we are under such pressure that we often don’t use quality thinking. We rush through the mechanics of decision-making and don’t give our minds the chance to reflect as
Issue #119, March 28 2023 Welcome to Insights and Implications! In last month’s newsletter, Ken Manning shared a story about an insight that helped him be more even-minded. In this month’s newsletter, we look a little deeper at what can help us live a more even-minded life. Wishing you well, All of us at Insight Principles Even-Mindedness: Part 2 - The Power of Understanding Even-mindedness defined: A state of mind in which one is calm, unruffled, present, engaged, and able to think clearly with perspective and intelligence. Sounds good, right? Do you want a bit more even-mindedness in your
Issue #118, February 28 2023 Welcome to Insights and Implications! We’ve all had the experience of feeling balanced, or even-minded. This month, in the first of a two-part series, Ken Manning reminds us of the source of this feeling and how it unlocks insight. Read on and stay tuned for next month’s follow-up to this important piece. Wishing you well, All of us at Insight Principles Even-Mindedness: Part 1 My friend Ari and I have been playing ping pong together for over 30 years. We play hard and have a great time and work up quite a sweat. We’re
Issue #117, January 31 2023 Welcome to Insights and Implications! Over the years, we’ve noticed a common refrain after folks leave our programs. Below, Robin reminds us that simply orienting toward our potential for insight is the first step toward having even more. All of us at Insight Principles Don’t Forget To Pay Attention To The “Transport System” When we follow-up with clients, they often describe their challenges with remembering and using what they learned in our programs. As we explore, we often find the pace of their life is an underlying issue. It is not uncommon for our clients to realize
Issue #116, December 30 2022 Welcome to Insights and Implications! What do our feelings and thoughts have to do with discernment? Read on to connect the dots! Happy holidays to all and our best wishes for the new year, All of us at Insight Principles I’ve been thinking about discernment lately – what it means, what allows for it, and where it comes from. But first, a definition: discernment noun dis·cern·ment di-ˈsərn-mənt 1 : the quality of being able to grasp and comprehend what is obscure : skill in discerning 2 : the trait of judging wisely and objectively “a
Issue #115, November 30 2022 Welcome to Insights and Implications! It’s funny how knowledge of a simple fact can make navigating life as a human being easier sometimes. This month, Nikki Platte reminds us what’s behind our feelings. Sending warm holiday wishes, All of us at Insight Principles I tore my ACL last week. For the third time. And I thought it’d be helpful to share my subsequent mood storm with everyone as an example of how our thoughts can take us all over the place sometimes! ACL stands for Anterior Cruciate Ligament. It’s an important stabilizing ligament that runs through the
Issue #114, October 31 2022 Welcome to Insights and Implications! Greetings! People in our programs often ask us how to “do” insight. In this month’s letter, Cheryl Bond gives us a helpful hint…read on to learn more! All of us at Insight Principles My coaching clients often have leadership development goals to build relationships, improve followership, and inspire their teams. Lately I’ve noticed how easily and readily they have helpful ideas around these topics…especially when they trust the built-in nature of insight. For example, my client Mike is working on these goals and it occurred to him to look for opportunities in
Issue #113, September 30 2022 Welcome to Insights and Implications! Sometimes the wisdom of children points us toward unexpected insight. Read on to see how this played out for Nikki, who saw something new about the word “no” after watching her daughter use it with abandon. All of us at Insight Principles I have a young child who - like many youngsters - is really good at saying no. “No, mama.” “No, I don’t want to do that.” “No, she can’t have my toy.” “Stop it, Mama.” Albeit a tiny human who is still learning social norms, my daughter is clear and
