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
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 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 person is thinking about the situation. We
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 #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 We have the capacity to think a multitude of things about ourselves, and we do a lot of it over our lifetimes! Thinking things
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 Like many of us, living through 2020 rocked my worldview. In the US, we weathered COVID, racial injustice, and political and social unrest - all with brand new
Issue #85, June 12 2020 Welcome to Insights and Implications! We hope you and your families are staying well. The pandemic and its effects have been the subject of many of our recent newsletters. Today we turn our attention to a different crisis. In this newsletter, Sandy Krot shares her reflections on the killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer, an event that has shaken all of us. Please stay safe. All of us at Insight Principles My Reflections on Racism The killing of George Floyd sent shock waves across the US and all over the globe. The killing prompted
Issue #78, February 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 to a group makes
Issue #71, July 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, something she calls
Issue #69, May 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 already works this
Issue #66, February 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 it could be
Issue #53, January 2018 Welcome to Insights and Implications! Welcome to the first Insights and Implications of 2018. We hope the new year is off to a good start. This month we are looking at the phenomenon of a “daymare” - like a nightmare, only it happens during the day. Please read on. All the best, All of us at Insight Principles Awakening from a Daymare You’ve had nightmares. You know, the kind where someone is after you and you can’t speak and you can’t move. When you wake up and realize you are dreaming, it's a relief. There are also daymares.
Issue #50, October 2017 Welcome to Insights and Implications! The times they are a-changin’. We don’t have to look too far to see that Bob Dylan was right. Whether it’s the political and social climate, our employer undergoing restructuring, or the simple loss of a much anticipated vacation, things are definitely not staying the same. So how do we navigate all this with grace and success? The good news is, we already have the equipment we need. All the best, All of us at Insight Principles Allowing a Change of Heart When we have a change of heart - also called insight
Issue #47, July 2017 Welcome to Insights and Implications! We received this newsletter contribution from Ken Manning’s son Zander. Thanks Zander. Wishing you the best in your final year of school and all the years after. All the best, All of us at Insight Principles Time: The Greatest Illusion We Face On June 9th, 2014 I walked onto the UMass campus for the first time as a freshman and, on the same day, I got my first piece of advice: “enjoy your time here, before you know it you’ll be graduating. Time flies.” I got the same advice when I began high
Issue #46, June 2017 Welcome to Insights and Implications! We received a question after last month’s newsletter and would like to address it. We love your questions, so please keep them coming. All the best, All of us at Insight Principles How Do I Do It? After last month’s newsletter (Our Design for Success) we received an interesting question, one which we’re asked often. “What habits or steps do you do to help you consciously monitor your thinking and its impact on your feelings?” This question pinpoints the most difficult part of our work at Insight Principles. Over the years, we’ve made
Issue #44, April 2017 Welcome to Insights and Implications! We were thrilled to receive this story from one of our program participants. She shared her personal discovery of the power of insight. Please keep sending us your insights as well as your suggestions for future newsletters. All the best, All of us at Insight Principles Why not ask for help? The following was sent to us by Kristen Opperman of Hemlock Semiconductor, who attended an Insight Principles program earlier this year. How long do you work on a task or project before you hit a roadblock? No matter how you look at
