Issue #41, January 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 heads buried in smartphones?

Issue #40, December 2016 Welcome to Insights and Implications! All of us at Insight Principles would like to wish you and yours the most joyous holiday season! We look forward to sharing more insights with you in 2017. Happy New Year! Robin, Ken, Nikki, and Sandy A Tale of "2" Holiday Gift Wrappers As 2016 and the holiday season come to a close, I wanted to share a favorite story from one of our clients. I’ll call him Ted. Ted had finished his holiday shopping and was sitting in the food court waiting for his wife. She finally arrived and said she

Issue #39, November 2016 Welcome to Insights and Implications! If this is your first time receiving our newsletter, welcome. We send them once a month, and they're filled with stories and anecdotes to help reinforce and deepen your understanding. We hope you find them relevant and useful. If you'd like us to address a specific topic, never hesitate to get in touch (rc@insightprinciples.com) with suggestions. We'd love to hear from you. All the best, All of us at Insight Principles An "Interesting" Few Months As a Brit who is also a US citizen, I’ve had an interesting few months. There is a

Issue #38, October 2016 Welcome to Insights and Implications! Our newsletter this month is second in our series about safety in the workplace. Below, we address how to intervene with others when you see a potential hazard. Be safe! All of us at Insight Principles Safety In The Workplace - Part 2 Last month we addressed how workplace accidents happen despite appropriate safety procedures and robust training. When your mind is out of balance and you don’t realize it, you may not be able to utilize safety procedures or prior training. However, understanding how your mind works from the inside-out can return

Issue #37, September 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 effective safety training are

Issue #36, August 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 of experience - woke

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 #34, June 2016 Welcome to Insights and Implications! Listening can be effortless and easy. Less on your mind is all you need to succeed. All the best, All of us at Insight Principles Be A Better Listener Without Trying Can you recall a time when you really felt heard? When someone was really listening to you? A time when there was a strong connection, when you had room to explore your ideas or questions, when your thinking became clear. Maybe you even had some new thinking. Don’t be surprised if you can only think of a few times or if you

Issue #33, May 2016 Welcome to Insights and Implications! When life hands you lemons, make lemonade. Or just see it as thought. All the best, All of us at Insight Principles Suffering or Growth? There is a saying here in the US - when life gives you lemons, make lemonade. This proverbial phrase suggests finding something good or positive in something difficult (making sweet lemonade out of sour lemons). Nice saying, but let’s consider a deeper point. Sometimes, life happens. You have your preferences and desires, and then - there is life. When confronted with something you don’t want, didn’t expect, or

Issue #32, April 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 an aircraft contemplating the

Issue #31, March 2016 Welcome to Insights and Implications! Sometimes it seems like circumstances have power over our experience of life. Below, Robin explains how this isn't actually the case. We hope you are finding many new insights and having a wonderful start to Spring. All the best, All of us at Insight Principles Who Has The Power? Before I came across the understanding we share in our classes, I thought life was a series of circumstances, some good and some not so good. I thought you had to manage the circumstances to be successful or have a happy life. I thought

Issue #30, February 2016 Welcome to Insights and Implications! What's in it for us to take ownership or fully commit? Below, we'll see how Sandy's puppy paved the way for insight on this very topic. All the best, All of us at Insight Principles The Value of Ownership Three years ago my husband and I adopted a puppy. He turned out to be quite a handful. Between his exercise requirements, training, and perpetual motion we were having second (and third and fourth) thoughts about puppy parenthood. At the six-month mark we started looking for a new home for our furry ball of

Issue #29, January 2016Welcome to Insights and Implications!Ever notice how our thinking can take us to scary places with very little data? This month we look at what happens when our insecurity and our imagination have a party in our head.All the best,All of us at Insight PrinciplesWorst Case Scenario ThinkingI have noticed something interesting. People who understand how the mind works are in a completely different place. Here’s what I mean:Lack of information frequently results in speculation - we make stuff up in our minds about what might happen and our stories usually aren’t good. For example, when a company announces

Issue #28, December 2015 Welcome to Insights and Implications! During the holidays, it seems we often find ourselves in situations with people who seem very different from ourselves. However, as Sandy describes below, we’re actually wired more similarly than we think. We hope this insightful piece helps you have a restful and relaxing holiday with your loved ones and fellow human beings, and we’ll see you in 2016! All the best, All of us at Insight Principles Different or Alike? We don’t have to look hard to notice our differences. The media is a daily reminder of how humans are at odds.

Issue #27, November 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, insight. I became interested