Issue #156, April 30, 2026 Welcome to Insights and Implications! This month we explore a superpower that we all have. Happy reading! All of us at Insight Principles Reflecting - An Unconscious Superpower Imagine you were born with a superpower but no one told you. It has been helping you out all your life, but the whole process is unconscious. Maybe you noticed an aspect of it though you likely misattributed the source and the access so you could not use this power purposefully. When you don't know how something works, it's hard to use

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. 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

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

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 Insight: It's Always There for You 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

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 Sometimes You Just Have To Say No 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

Issue #110, June 30, 2022 Welcome to Insights and Implications! Have you been perplexed by another person’s behavior? Have you wondered what to do or how to intervene? Have you been at a loss in certain situations? In this month’s newsletter, Robin Charbit explains why you get stuck and shares a helpful yet simple strategy. All of us at Insight Principles May I Ask A Question? Our clients often ask for our take on  particular situations - “What do you think?” or “What should I do?”, etc. To be of service, we always start by trying to understand how the

Issue #106, February 28, 2022 Welcome to Insights and Implications! We call our company, Insight Principles because a huge part of our work spotlights the innate human capacity for insight. In this month’s newsletter Nikki Platte Nieves shares more about the mind’s extraordinary design to bring us new thinking and sometimes a whole new world. All of us at Insight Principles A Whole New World Insight comes in many shapes and sizes. Sometimes it’s mundane, as simple as remembering where you put your misplaced keys. And sometimes insight irrevocably changes your perspective forever. After 18 years, one of my dear friends recently

Issue #101, September 30, 2021 Welcome to Insights and Implications! Sometimes we try too hard to figure things out. We overthink and over analyze. And we don’t need to. Nikki Platte Nieves reminds us of our mind’s brilliant capacity to bring us answers, ideas, and new thinking, if only we remember to look.All the best,All of us at Insight Principles An Age Old Tale About New Ideas Every so often, for all of us, a dilemma comes along with no clear answer or correct solution. In these moments, it can be tempting to overthink, make pro/con lists, analyze, or look for

Issue #94 - February 26, 2021 Welcome to Insights and Implications! The human mind has the miraculous capacity to turn whatever we think into a reality complete with sight, sound, and feeling. Without this capacity we would not experience life. In the newsletter this month, Julia Rebholz from our UK team shares some insight about the mind’s reality-creating capacity and how it can create mental havoc when we forget how the system works. All of us at Insight Principles A Universal Human Dilemma We have the capacity to think a multitude of things about ourselves, and we do a lot

Issue #93 - January 30, 2021 Welcome to Insights and Implications! 2020 was a challenging year for the entire global population. Now, one month into 2021 we’re all hoping for better times. This month’s newsletter written by Nikki Platte Nieves is both a poignant description of the challenges we face and a rallying call to the “better angels of our nature” to take action. Read on and be inspired. All of us at Insight Principles Let’s Go Deeper Like many of us, living through 2020 rocked my worldview. In the US, we weathered COVID, racial injustice, and political and social unrest -

Issue #92 - December 30, 2020 Welcome to Insights and Implications! 2020 has been quite a year! Though the year has brought illness and tragedy to many lives, there have also been countless moments of human kindness. And if we didn’t already know it, the pandemic illustrated, in the words of John Muir, we are “hitched to everything else in the Universe.” Our Insight Principles team wanted to take a moment to share with you, in our own words, lessons learned (or reinforced) during this challenging year. Wishing you a Happy and Healthy 2021! 2020 Reflections From Robin Charbit My prevailing and

Issue #78 - February, 26, 2020 Welcome to Insights and Implications! Can you imagine a workplace without PowerPoint? We can. While an interesting tool, the way PowerPoint is often used stifles the creative process that helps us solve our most vexing problems. Read on to learn more. All of us at Insight Principles Everybody Hates PowerPoint An article in Inc. Magazine caught my attention titled, It’s 2020. Why Are You Still Using PowerPoint? Read the article here. At Insight Principles, we hardly ever use PowerPoint. Simultaneously showing a bunch of words and diagrams on a screen while we are speaking

Issue #71 - July 29, 2019 Welcome to Insights and Implications! We like to keep up with the latest about the human dimension. Sometimes we find articles that come close to our understanding of the mind. Read on to learn about an article that gets a piece of the picture but ends up missing a critical factor. All of us at Insight Principles Self Awareness and Self Management I read an interesting article in the Harvard Business Review by Jennifer Porter, (Click Here). Porter writes that self awareness alone does not lead to self improvement. There is another necessary skill,

Issue #69 - May 28, 2019 Welcome to Insights and Implications! In previous newsletters, we covered the topic of Understanding vs. Doing. Because this continues to create questions, we wanted to revisit it. Read on for more insights. All of us at Insight Principles Understanding vs. Doing We often hear the following dialogue in our individual and group programs: Insight Principles: Your mind has a built-in design for success. Your mind works only one way, crafting the reality you experience from the inside-out. Participant: Ok. But how do I do that? Insight Principles: There is nothing to do. Your mind

Issue #66 - February 25, 2019 Welcome to Insights and Implications! This month, Robin Charbit shares what he sees about the mind’s capacity to bring insight. To borrow a phrase from Mick Jagger, “We can’t always get what we want...but we get what we need.” Thanks Robin for your contribution. All of us at Insight Principles Not Getting What You Want? Sometimes you get what you don’t want. I’m not referring to the ugly socks you got at Christmas. I’m referring to events that happen that are unplanned and unwelcomed. An extreme example is the death of someone dear. Or