Issue #42 - February 28, 2017 Welcome to Insights and Implications! From time to time we like to share insights from the participants in our programs. While this month’s guest author describes a trip over the winter holidays, her insights are relevant year-round. We love hearing from you so please keep those insights coming. All the best, All of us at Insight Principles Travel Delays: Always A Chance for Insight Over the holidays I traveled to Orlando to visit my family. I was excited to see my mom, brother and baby niece. I booked a red-eye flight on December 23rd

Issue #41 - January 31, 2017 Welcome to Insights and Implications! Do you find yourself constantly checked-in to work? Read on for some reflections on where this need for constant connectivity may be coming from. All the best, All of us at Insight Principles How Long Is Your Work Day? What happened to the eight-hour work day? With an increasingly global workforce and devices that allow you to connect anywhere, anytime, the workday seems to be expanding. Do you find yourself sending or responding to emails and texts after 5:00pm? Do you notice parents “watching” their kid’s soccer games with

Issue #37 - September 30, 2016 Welcome to Insights and Implications! This month’s newsletter is Part 1 of a two-part series on safety in the workplace. We hope to shed light on this very important topic. Be safe! All of us at Insight Principles Safety In The Workplace - Part 1 We’ve been asked to explain how an understanding of insight principles contributes to positive safety outcomes for individuals, teams, and ultimately organizations. After all, aren’t robust safety policies and procedures - accompanied by adequate safety training - the most critical factors? The right safety policies and procedures coupled with

Issue #36 - August 30, 2016 Welcome to Insights and Implications! As summer winds down, we share this story from Sandy about how fear doesn't always get the best of us. Sometimes we just keep paddling. All the best, All of us at Insight Principles From Fear To Flow My husband is an avid sea kayaker. For the past 25 years, he has taken a yearly extended trip into a remote wilderness area. Last month he kayaked solo along the northern coast of British Columbia (Canada). Something unusual happened on this year’s trip. Peter - a skilled kayaker with decades

Issue #35 - July 30, 2016 Welcome to Insights and Implications! It's vacation season! Below, Robin shows us how the intelligence inside helps us relax...regardless of where we are. All the best, All of us at Insight Principles It Isn't The Beach This time of year, many of us head to the beach or to some other place to relax, change the scenery, reconnect with family, and generally recharge our batteries. When we return home, hopefully refreshed, we typically tell our friends and colleagues how good it was to get away, how the mountain air is really reviving, or how

Issue #32 - April 30, 2016 Welcome to Insights and Implications! This month's newsletter was written by Nick Gray of DOW AgroSciences who has been learning and sharing his understanding of Insight Principles for several years. We welcome hearing from all of our readers and we would love to include your insights and implications in the next newsletter. As Nick shows us, a turbulent flight doesn't have to mean a turbulent mind. We wish you many insights and new ideas as we close out April. All the best, All of us at Insight Principles Turbulence Recently I was traveling on

Issue #27 - November 30, 2015 Welcome to Insights and Implications! This month, Robin explains how things like stress and impatience can melt away with the power of realization. We wish all of those celebrating Thanksgiving in the US a warm and wonderful holiday weekend. All the best, All of us at Insight Principles The Power of Realization When I first came across the understanding of the principles we share with clients, I was impressed by the effect I observed. A wide array of capacities would manifest – patience, kindness, the ability to concentrate without effort, curiosity, and, of course,

Issue #26 - October 30, 2015 Welcome to Insights and Implications! If this is your first time receiving our newsletter, welcome! We send brief anecdotes just once per month, aimed at keeping your learning fresh and relevant. This month, we'll see how a simple cup of tea can be a metaphor for insight principles. We hope you enjoy. All the best, All of us at Insight Principles A Cup of Tea We used the metaphor of a cup of tea in a recent program to describe how the life forces of thought and consciousness come together to create reality. The

Issue #23 - July 30, 2015 Welcome to Insights and Implications! Hello Everyone, How can collaboration be a bad thing? We wondered the same thing, and we reflect on it below. We hope you enjoy the reflective time. All the best, All of us at Insight Principles Too Much Collaboration? During a recent long drive, a TED Radio Hour caught my attention. The program was called, “Is Too Much Collaboration A Bad Thing?” “How can collaboration be a bad thing?” I wondered. The speaker was Jason Fried the CEO of 37 Signals, a software development company that (ironically) makes software

Issue #20 - April 30, 2015 Welcome to Insights and Implications! Hi Everyone, Have you ever noticed how fluid and agile your thought process can be when you have less on your mind? Conversely, when lots of thinking is competing for your attention or you are stuck in a loop of recycling the same thinking, doesn’t it seem hard and dense? Read on for some insight into insight. All the best, All of us at Insight Principles Short on Insight? A while ago at one of our Insight programs, a participant mentioned that he felt he was short on insight.

Issue #19 - March 30, 2015 Welcome to Insights and Implications! Hi Everyone, In our programs, people often ask if learning Insight Principles will mean they won't feel anything, or won't care about their jobs. In this newsletter, we'd like to put your minds at ease, as nothing could be further from the truth. As always, get in touch if we can be of any help to you or your team. All the best, All of us at Insight Principles Feelingless? Or Feeling Full? Throughout time, artists have described their most incredibly productive states as being timeless, containing very little of the

Issue #15 - November 30, 2014 Welcome to Insights and Implications! Hello Everyone, We all have reactions from time to time and we can all jump to conclusions. Have you noticed that once you get over your reaction, lots of new questions come to mind? Read on to see how regaining balance can easily lead to productive curiosity. Also, we have news! Our long-awaited book is done! Invisible Power: Insight Principles At Work will hit the shelves early next year. Watch for our official release announcement soon. Happy Thanksgiving to you and your families from all of us at Insight Principles! Get

Issue #12 - August 31, 2014 Welcome to Insights and Implications! Hello Everyone, Did you take a vacation this summer? We hope so. If you didn't, don't despair- this month's newsletter describes how a vacation state of mind is possible (and productive) no matter where you are. We hope you enjoy! As summer winds down, feel free to get in touch with us with quesitons, concerns, or insights! We love hearing from you. All the best, All of us at Insight Principles Living in Vacation Mode Did you find yourself in a vacation state of mind this summer? Sometimes, it seems like

Issue #7 - March 31, 2014 Welcome to Insights and Implications! Hello Everyone, As you know, our programs describe how life is a moment to moment endeavor. In other words, we are always at a (thinking) fork in the road. If we see it is thought, we can head toward curiosity, something new and unexpected. If we don't see it as thought, we may innocently stay in a reaction, and who knows how long our experience might last. Both experiences are totally normal, and we all forget that we're living in an illusion all the time. Forgetting is what life is, but