By Andre Auerbach
Every time you perform an activity you’ve done before… every time you think a thought that passed though your time before, you’re strengthening synapses in your brain.
These synapses create a cause-and-effect relationship between the neurons they linked. So that every time one neuron fires, the other will too. These synapses are like a [...]
“The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention.” Richard Moss.
The ability to achieve rapport with anybody is an amazingly powerful skill to have. Rapport precedes influence.
When you have rapport with someone you can take the lead in the conversation. This is not to say you will be able [...]
Are you an Action Man (or an Action Person, I suppose, to be politically correct!)? Because most of us are Reaction Men - and Reaction Women!! The normal mind is a highly-tuned, highly effective reactive mechanism. Evolutionary psychology proposes that we automatically react and behave to ordinary everyday events because we need to retain our [...]
You’ve been squeaking - I mean trying to get your way - ever since you were a baby. A matter of fact, before you read any further, why not pull out a chubby picture of yourself just to have a good laugh. Or, get a good image in your mind of your baby picture. You [...]
I’m writing this on the veranda overlooking the grounds, lake and woodlands of my ‘away from it all’ place. I’m spending time reading, writing, reflecting… and getting up late. I miss breakfast time but it’s totally worth the joy of not needing to be up at any particular time!
And as I write, I’m remembering a [...]
When we are stressed our bodies go on alert and hold on to tension and fatigue. I have researched many ways to help me to relax and de-stress and I found three simple techniques that really helped me, and I hope they help you too.
De-stressor No 1 - Body Attention
Martial arts and yoga practitioners know [...]
We can busy for the whole of our waking hours. This is particularly true in professional life when it seems there are not enough hours in the day. While it is important to get things done, it is counter-productive to just bash on regardless.
If you were climbing a mountain - and sometimes work feels just [...]
On many of my workshops, I quote a piece of well known research into the effectiveness and impact of communication. The effect on those with whom we communicate is dictated by body language, tone of voice and our words. Body language accounts for an enormous 56% of the overall effect, tone of voice accounts for [...]
All scent originates as a chemical. Without chemicals, our brain would not be able to perceive, or “read” a scent. All around us are currents of air which are in constant motion. These currents contain myriads of complex combinations of odours that only trigger our attention when they irritate or please us.
Every time we breathe, [...]
Early in my career I discovered a phenomenon which you may well recognize in your own area of work. It turned out to be a powerful way to lead and inspire.
My first job was a software developer and this entailed fixing bugs in programs. Sometimes a bug was really hard to find and, with a [...]
We all have the ability to recognise - someone we already know, a difficult situation when we see one, an opportunity that’s staring us in the face or a problem that needs our attention. However, our psychological ability to recognise is just as much a curse as it is a blessing. We take in raw [...]
Normal people are out of control. This is not an observation, a theory or an opinion. This is a statement of scientific fact. Decades of research, all the way back to 1936, prove conclusively that the normal person is not in control of themselves, rather they are controlled by their subconscious mind. And, because all [...]
