Issue #84, May 29 2020 Welcome to Insights and Implications! We hope you and your families are staying healthy and settled as you face the unique challenges of this pandemic. This newsletter was written by a member of the Insight Principes team from São Paulo, Brazil. Robin shares what he has discovered about acceptance - where it comes from and how it can help us through this crisis. All of us at Insight Principles Acceptance: It's Not Something We Do You’ve probably heard the old saying, “You’ve got to see it to believe it.” I want to twist the saying a bit
Issue #76, December 2019 Welcome to Insights and Implications! This is our final newsletter of 2019. The end of the year is a good time to reflect and look back at life. With the help of Confucius, we will explore how easy it is to let the doing of life overtake the living of life. Wishing Everyone a Very Happy New Year! All of us at Insight Principles Confucius Says... We have two lives. The second one begins when we realize we only have one.
Issue #75, November 2019 Welcome to Insights and Implications! We have colleagues all over the world sharing an understanding of the mind to diverse populations. There are groups in the UK working with school children and educators, and others working in prisons and with the chronically mentally ill. There are people in Chicago working with gang youth. The list is impressive. One of our favorite colleagues is Anna Debenham, a transplanted Brit who lives in Portland, OR and founded, The Insight Alliance (https://theinsightalliance.org/ ). Anna runs programs in both men’s and women’s prisons sharing how the mind works to inmates. She also
Issue #65, January 2019 Welcome to Insights and Implications! Are you busy? Chances are, your answer is yes. But are you busy doing what‘s important to you? Or do you feel that someone else is dictating how you use your time? Read on to learn how an understanding of the mind can help you regain control. Wishing you insights, All of us at Insight Principles Are You Busy? I love greeting cards. I recently came across a card with this humorous message: If I’m so busy, How come I’m not rich? It does seem that everyone you ask these days says
Issue #60, August 2018 Welcome to Insights and Implications! Do you use your smartphone during meetings? Chances are you do more often than you realize, even if you disapprove of smartphone use during meetings. Read on for more about this interesting paradox. And don’t forget to check out the Tedx talk by Insight Principles’ Ken Manning. Watch it here. Smartphones and Meetings Don't Mix The USC Marshall School Of Business recently released a surprising study. Turns out that most people in the corporate world think smartphones don’t belong in business meetings. Here’s what the data showed: 86% think it’s inappropriate to answer
Issue #52, December 2017 Welcome to Insights and Implications! Our final Insights and Implications for 2017. We will be back next year with more editions. Please send us any topics you’d like us to cover in 2018. Happy Holidays! Adrian, Cheryl, Elese, Ken, Nikki, Robin, and Sandy What Are You Grateful For? What are you grateful for? It’s a popular question this time of year. Perhaps your family traditionally reflects on this question around the holiday table. Or you may encounter it at religious services or even at business meetings. Or you may have read in self-help books the recommendation to make
Issue #49, September 2017 Welcome to Insights and Implications! We received another contribution to our newsletter from one of our readers. Read on for an excellent reminder about the power of thought. Please keep your stories and ideas coming. All the best, All of us at Insight Principles Crater Lake Insight While visiting Crater Lake in Oregon last month, I stopped by the main lodge to get lunch. August is a busy month around the lake. It took me a while to find parking. After I had lunch, I was walking back to my car when I noticed a young woman in
Issue #48, August 2017 Welcome to Insights and Implications! Ever want to get away from it all? Read this month’s newsletter and learn how to do just that without even leaving home. All the best, All of us at Insight Principles Silent Retreat, Anyone? I recently read an interesting article written by Sally Blount, the Dean at Kellogg School of Management. Her advice was: The next time you feel stuck at work with a hard problem to solve, a complicated team dynamic, or are just feeling burnt out -- instead of hiring a consultant, going to a seminar, or tweeting about it
Issue #35, July 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 restful it was to
Issue #23, July 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 to help companies collaborate.
Issue #12, August 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 being away
