by DavidFraser | Sep 26, 2014 | Change
How far do you need to go into the future before the present will seem like the past? When we’re struggling to get over some incident or upset, I find it can be a great help to think forward into the future—far enough into the future that present or very recent...
by DavidFraser | Sep 22, 2014 | Relationship Skills
To paraphrase 13th century poet, Mevlana Jelaluddin Rumi… “Out beyond ideas of yes and no, there is a field. I’ll meet you there.” Asking a closed question always seemed to me a clumsy way of opening a conversation about something as complex as the future of a...
by DavidFraser | Sep 17, 2014 | Personal Mastery
Should we make big decisions based on what we think or what we feel? Should we let our heart rule our head or vice versa? In fact… The truest guide is what we know—what our whole body tells us—our gut, if you like, which is a different thing altogether. That...
by DavidFraser | Sep 15, 2014 | Change, Influence, Relationship Skills
If Ian Paisley and Martin McGuinness can become best buddies, surely just about anyone can be reconciled… It seems to me Ian Paisley is an interesting example of how changing yourself changes the system—the world around you—especially if you are known to a lot...
by DavidFraser | Sep 12, 2014 | Change, Leadership
When we set out to work on an issue on a large scale, it would be handy if we could discern the specific impact of our actions. It would be useful it we could determine how much of what we see changing around us is caused by what we ourselves are doing? That way we...
