Issue #105, January 31 2022 Welcome to Insights and Implications! We hope that 2022 has begun well for you. This month’s newsletter is about happiness. Remember that feeling? Happiness seemed nearly ever-present when we were very young and now can be all too fleeting. Read on as Cheryl Bond shares how we innocently limit our experience of happiness. All of us at Insight Principles Conditional Happiness We’re all familiar with the conditions we set for happiness: I’ll be happy when I lose weight I’ll be happy when I get married -- or divorced I’ll be happy when I have a better job,

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 deepening

Issue #87, July 31 2020 Welcome to Insights and Implications! We hope you are enjoying the summer. (Apologies to our Southern Hemisphere friends.) By now, we bet you are all seasoned veterans of online meetings. At Insight Principles, this transition was initially awkward and unwelcome. However, as Robin Charbit describes below, we adapted, and were ultimately surprised by how well our online work evolved. We continue to learn more and more each day about thriving in our new virtual reality. Please contact us if you’d like to hear more about what we're learning and doing. All of us at Insight Principles Connecting

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 #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 #83, May 15 2020 Welcome to Insights and Implications! We hope this newsletter finds you and your family healthy and in mostly good spirits. Today, Sandy Krot shares her hobby of bird watching and explains what this hobby has taught her. Maybe it will inspire you to watch birds, or maybe it will inspire you to simply slow down. All of us at Insight Principles Why I Love Bird Watching When I met my husband 20+ years ago, he was an avid bird watcher. I loved nature and all of her creatures, but frankly, I didn’t often notice birds. We would

Issue #82, April 30 2020 Welcome to Insights and Implications! We hope that you and your families are continuing to stay well during these challenging times. As promised we are increasing the frequency of our newsletters. A lot of news lately is bad news. Yet we know many of you are finding creative ways of doing your jobs and living your lives. In this issue Cheryl Bond shares a story about one team’s progress and what it says about the potential in us all. All of us at Insight Principles Working in the New Normal In line with the stay-at-home mandate, most

Issue #81, April 13 2020 Welcome to Insights and Implications! We hope that you and your families are continuing to stay well during these challenging times. As promised we are increasing the frequency of our newsletters. This issue is written by Julia Rebholtz, a member of our Insight Principles team from the UK. She shares that she too, has struggled a bit but when she remembers what she knows about the mind, she is able to find her way back to balance. Please reach out and let us know if we can help in any way. All of us at Insight Principles

Issue #80, March 30 2020 Welcome to Insights and Implications! Since we are living in unprecedented and uncertain times, we thought we’d increase the frequency of our newsletters. We hope these are helping in a small way. Please take good care of yourselves and your friends and families. Do not hesitate to reach out to us if we can help in any way.Stay well. All of us at Insight Principles Life is Unpredictable Some people like to have a plan. I’m one of them. To be completely honest - I’m a control freak. I thrive in a nice, predictable, routine life. A

Issue #79, March 19 2020 Welcome to Insights and Implications! These are very interesting, and for many, very challenging times. We wanted to reach out to you all with more frequent reminders of both the benefits and avoidable pitfalls of living in a human mind. We hope you all are taking good care of yourselves and your friends and families. Please do not hesitate to reach out to us if we can help in any way. Stay well. All of us at Insight Principles Uncertainty and Imagination The human imagination is a miraculous thing. Marie Curie, Thomas Edison, Charlotte Bronte, Albert Einstein,