I had the privilege of having 45 minutes to prepare them for the presentations. Rather than a motivational piece, I wanted to give them tools to boost their immediate performance and tools that they can use for the rest of their life.

I have had many fantastic encounters with this age group this last year and always I have found them willing to learn, and genuinely grateful for what MindStore gives them.

I just dived in, suggesting that they must be fairly nervous or anxious as in just over an hour they would be up on their feet presenting to the Dragons. The prizes that were available were significant from Kindles for each of the team members of the top three, to large cash prizes and equipment for the schools.

They seemed genuinely surprised yet eager when I said that I could give them a tool right there and then that could get rid of the anxiety, to ensure that they gave their best possible presentation. I advised them, as I do, that the techniques would seem a little strange at first but added “extraordinary people, do extraordinary things” and that they were far from ordinary school students.

They seemed to like that while also respecting my credibility, working all around the world; over 50% of the FTSE 100 has been clients, nearly 25 years in this field and somewhere in the region of 500,000 people have been through some kind of training with us.

Unlike so many “adults” they had not one ounce of cynicism between them.  This set against the economic reality facing their age group, their optimism and hope was truly inspiring.

So first up was tapping (Thought Field Therapy). I got straight into it and before they knew it they were all humming “Happy birthday” like the best of them. As if to shame “some” of the “adults” who have attended MindStore for Business Courses there was no sniggering, just a wanting to know they were tapping in the right place and getting it correct.

We did four rounds of the Anxiety Algorithm coming down from 10 to 1, as they fed back how their anxiety just melted away. Next, the MindStore Relaxation exercise, a screen for mental rehearsal and programming their Goal. Again, no hesitation, just a willingness to have a go.

In front of their teachers, their peers and fellow competitors, they closed their eyes and took the three deep breaths. It was easy to see that they were enjoying it as the stress on each of their faces quickly dissolved. I pushed the boat out and gave them a version of “The Cloak” and the “Inner Coaches” combined into one.

Forty five minutes later, they were ready, willing and able, and when each of them got up on the stage, they did their school, their parents and themselves proud.

As if it were meant to be, I was immediately approached by a teacher when my coaching session was over.  She explained that she had changed local authority over the summer, she was now with her new school students at the event and she was really enjoying her new job. She then told me that she had brought the entire Fifth Year (16-17 year olds) from her previous school, to the open “Prepare for Exams Day” that I did for Glasgow Schools back in March. The city’s schools took over the Royal Concert Hall and with the support of Glasgow City Council and sponsorship of local businesses; senior pupils were transported in from all over Glasgow.

It was an amazing day, and one of the best experiences of my life, to have nearly 2000 teenagers listen and learn for an entire day was just awesome. The teacher explained that her students then had the previous year been the worst performing Fourth Year in the history of the school. She said after the event they had all agreed to practise the techniques with the full support of teachers in the run up to their formal examinations. In addition, the teachers had agreed to create the space for pre-programming on each of the exam days. She proudly informed me that group of students became the best ever Fifth Year in the school’s history. They all did exceptionally well in all of their subjects. We had already learned that the overall results were the best in the city’s history but to hear it first hand from a dedicated and inspiring teacher quite simply made my year.

She gave me the confidence to tease the regions Director of Education and the leading Politicians who were in attendance. I did a short motivational piece to open the formal event and mentioned the Glasgow Exam Day and offered to do the same for them.

I started my career working with this age group for ten years in an area of intense deprivation. To be able to still find a rapport with them all these years later was genuinely surprising and inspiring. They face an uncertain future and if we can arm this age group with the best tools and techniques it’s now clear to me that they can go on and shine.

I also realise that all of us face a rather challenging and entirely unique immediate future. Economics and Politics aside, the year ahead does seem uncertain. The fact that at MindStore we believe that “thoughts are things” makes it more than concerning that “the 2012” thing is everywhere in popular consciousness.

Perhaps like never before, our tools and techniques are going to be necessary in the coming year. If any of the imagined disasters come, then “survivors” will definitely need them. If all we face is continued disruptive economic conditions then there will be a type of “survival of the fittest” reality playing out. If these tools work so easily for school students without them experiencing yet adult life, how much more would they work in the open hearts and minds of you and your colleagues. Surely if the “adults” could surrender their ego to learn too, and get their pride out of the way to practise and use the tools, then it’s clear the tools and techniques will bring the best out of everyone who chooses to use them. Arguably now is the time we need them most.

Yesterday I also had the privilege of spending the entire day with two hundred and fifty fifth year school students preparing them for their prelims. I had the same response as before. I had the full support of the Head Teacher and his team of committed teachers and the overwhelming enthusiasm go the young people.

I am now seriously looking to find the space to record all of this material and make it available to download for all students.

I will do all I can this year to help keep you on track with your tools and techniques through reminders and support with the use of social media and courses.

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I trust you are all settling into your “New Home” and have been having fun and getting fantastic results with your visits. I have been delighted with the feedback and truly inspired by the exceptional stories that have come in since Saturday. As promised here is a blog to remind you of some of the key features plus some additional pointers.

Firstly I would like to impress on you that the greatest gift provided on Saturday was the “Alpha State” or as we have previously called it “Foundation”. This provides us with the means to tune to the rhythm and resonance of the “universal wavelength” for the laws of attraction and manifestation. The process, it’s procedures and discipline allow you the time required to relax into the rhythm and stabilise your connection.

So each day find the position, do the breathing followed by the full head to toe relaxation. Head for your “beach” then onto the bank of the river. Remind yourself of the lush green grass, the blue sky and the construction of your “House With The Red Roof.” Enjoy a drink of crystal clear water from the well as you prepare to step inside your entrance. Remind yourself of the shape of this space, the height of the ceiling, decorative features, lighting and colours. Focus on your 5 values cast before you on the floor selecting one for contemplation. List your 3 “hassles” then enjoy your shower before wiping the slate clean. The house is then open up to you with all its wonder and potential.

Every time you access your new home take the time to meet with your coaches whether directly in “The Den” or elsewhere. Invest in this imaginary tool to build a relationship with that part of you that resonates at a higher level or put another way your intuitive self. Remember you may have the feeling that you are just making this up but that in effect is the point. Make believe at this level of awareness accesses the intuitive faculty of the right brain. As time goes by getting to know each other over leisurely conversations or more directly through sharing in the use of the Media Room is absolutely fantastic. Insights, better problem solving and breakthroughs all result in engaging with this fascinating inner work. Many of you have already fed back how this is becoming much more intuitive and how you have already improved in all manner of ways.

Media Room Tips

For creative “problem (”delete that programme” )…challenge solving” follow this procedure:

Admit and accept your current reality by projecting the image and content of the challenge on the central screen – move to the past (right) screen to study and analyse the challenge, ask yourself who’s involved, what’s involved, where and when does it happen and so on. Then make the screen go blank, come back to the present screen and consider your current reality once more before also making that screen blank too. Now move your eyes to the left and on your future screen (screen 3) explore various alternatives. You will find that in the Alpha State your combined creativity and intuition will begin to come up with possibilities you would otherwise not have considered. You can play forward each solution on the screen till you find the one you feel is the best solution. Create then a scene of the solution being realised, pay attention to what you would expect to see hear and feel. Finally freeze and frame the final “photograph” in brilliant white light. With all your programmed outcomes on the future screen you commit to regularly review it until it is actually manifested in real life. Mohamed Ali called this image a “Future History”.

Now once this is established you move to the 4th screen the consequences screen to consider the benefits for others when your Future History is achieved. The same process is used with each of your 7 key goals and indeed any other goals or programmes you wish to have in your life. Remember too, critically when you go back to review your Future History on your 3rd screen you never ever consider the present or past screen. You are now a futurist and are committed to bring the solution or goal into being by constantly reviewing in The Alpha State screens 3 and 4 only.

Parking cars, finding the best table in a restaurant or seats at the theatre and endless other outcomes can be programmed quickly and purposefully by simply putting your Tip Of The Tongue Trigger in place together with the Kubera Mudra and immediately flashing the 3rd screen into your minds eye and seeing the result you want, a quick glance at the 4th screen will complete the process. Simply open your eyes and go about our business with the desire, belief and expectation that you will succeed.

On every visit to your new home make the commitment to work on your own personal development by engaging with your inner coaches. You can of course meet them in “The Den” though you can choose to maintain your inner relationship at any location. I always involve them in considering my options on the screens in The Media Room and I find it particularly wonderful when they assist me in my study of the images on the walls in my Central Hallway. Clearly there are many other rooms and indeed locations on the landscape where you can enjoy their company too but that is all for another time.

The Energising Beam. You can use this very special tool at any time you feel the need for additional energy or even to take away a headache before it becomes established and intense. Always use it as you leave the house when you have just programmed an important meeting or event in the Media Room or ran a rehearsal in the Theatre of Possibilities.

To use it first consider the 3 general opportunities that are currently on your mind (raising your intention in the Alpha State to focus on opportunities charges the magnetic like characteristic of your mind and causes you to attract into your reality whatever you require to achieve them) then step onto the platform imagine turning on its power and immediately feel a vibrating and vibrant beam of energy rising up from the floor below into every cell of your body. I actually slowly stand up before turning it on and literally shake with the imaginary force deciding and demanding to be charged by its abundant vitality and health. Then turn it off and step away to take a look up at your stained glass window, remind yourself of your core values and leave the house enjoying another drink of crystal clear and refreshing spring water. Look towards the river bank and step forwards as you count from 1-7 and over to the Left Bank where you take action and go about your business.

That’s more than enough for now, stay connected via email or the social networks. I will also provide you with more tools and techniques on a conference call that you can participate on within a couple of weeks time. Do please send me stories of using your new tools and techniques and if you can give me permission to post them with or without your details you will be encouraging others and as the universe seems to operate the intention to assist will come back to you multiplied.

We have now decided to present this course in Glasgow on Saturday 3 March 2012 and are considering Dublin too. Remember if you are interested in how MindStore and all our programmes and solutions can assist you at work or in our business please get in touch. In the meantime enjoy and remember

“It Only Works”

Jack

The Best of MindStore, Glasgow Royal Concert Hall Saturday 3 March 2010

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This single book and all of the positive hullabaloo that has come with it catapulted the notion of “manifestation” and “the law of attraction” into the consciousness of millions who otherwise probably would never have come across these concepts. Without doubt here at MindStore, we have the best suite of tools to capitalise on your intention to attract into your life the people you need, the places you need to be and the opportunities required to manifest whatever you genuinely want.

Our Secret is actually the day to day use of the “Alpha State” these powerful frequencies of brain functioning that all our tried and tested methods are tuned to work perfectly with. You may never have bothered to set specific goals before, compelling goals that you readily find a deep, deep desire for, goals that are driven by a profound belief that they can be achieved coupled with an unwavering expectation that they will absolutely come to be.
The latest MindStore programme which I will deliver in Earls Court, London on Saturday 12 November is built around our unique concept of “Mental Architecture” it opens with a brief introduction of our basic beliefs that 5 characteristics are critical to success.

1.  You are able to manage your stress so as to have abundant energy necessary for achieving sustained success.
2.  You live every day with an optimistic outlook and positive mental attitude.
3.  Everything you do is driven by your commitment to achieving compelling goals
4.  You utilise whole brain thinking and in particular choose purposefully to work with the powerful advantages of using your right brain hemisphere. 

You master and have complete dominion and control over your emotions.Then you begin the exciting journey into your right brain via the metaphor of walking into the right bank of a river creating as you go the perfect landscape on which you construct “The House with the Red Roof”. Within the house there are rooms you will find to house the tools and techniques.  The “new” material honors the heritage of the original system but takes it to another level again.
You don’t need to be a seasoned MindStore member to learn this stuff, the very best news is that these our best techniques yet don’t take hours and hours of practicing to perfect they really do work in a matter of minutes.  That’s just a few minutes a day providing lasting and sustained results when it matters most.
If you were a participant of any previous MindStore course you will readily integrate the tools you already have into this concept and of course come away with some more. If you did the Island either online or at a course then you now have a very special place to catch the ferry from.

I can’t wait to share this with you. I am using the techniques daily myself now and have made the transition effortlessly, and honestly I don’t know why I didn’t before now. It is so much better.

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Probably like never before you and I need to focus on our SELF MANAGEMENT, PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT and PERFORMANCE.

I have been personally inspired myself using the “new” techniques. I say new because I have upgraded the original ones and will introduce entirely new tools too. The thing is they all work and work even better with this unique approach. I am pretty certain just like me you really need to work on the characteristics highlighted above.

Not everybody but lots of us are aware that we need to allocate time, precious as it is to actually stop and have a good look at ourselves in order to make the necessary changes to arm ourselves not only to cope with what’s coming but to strive ahead in these very interesting times.

Let me ask you…

Are you completely happy with your day to day outcomes? How would you score yourself with SELF MANAGEMENT on a scale of 1-10? To help you; consider your attitudes, your behaviors, your stress levels, your eating and drinking, your weight, your fitness and wellbeing.

How do you score on your progress and commitment to your PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT? Think about it, are you living with purpose? For example are you working to improve yourself? Do you actually have compelling and specific goals that are driving your behaviors actions and results? Are you venturing out of your comfort zones challenging yourself to grow? And what is the next big thing you are looking forward to?

What about your PERFORMANCE, how you are performing day to day? What tools and techniques do you have at your disposal or have used today or yesterday to ensure you were presenting yourself to the world in the best possible light? Are you constantly coming up with good ideas, finding fresh opportunities and breakthroughs and more importantly seizing on them to stride ahead?

Simply put, are you getting the results that you really want? Are you happy and enjoying life? And do you see futures that inspire you to get up in the morning with a passion to engage in the day ahead?

Forgive me but I am going to say it. I have got the tools and techniques for you right here. Solutions developed over 20 years that have allowed seemingly ordinary people to pick them up, apply them and somehow accomplish extraordinary things. 

They work and now they work even better, believe me even the currently in vogue scientists, the quantum physicists are finding credible language to explain why thousands and thousands of MindStore Members seem to be able to create their own reality and astonishingly manifest their “impossible” desires over and over again and it just keeps happening.  Folks like:

The innocent man, held in prison who applies his MindStore tools to survive and even thrive in horrendous incarceration. Not only survives but goes onto write the book   which is being published and the film rights are already negotiated.

The school pupils who actually transition their attitudes to learning and astound their teachers with their new behaviors and results.

The unlikely lady who is inspired on the course to start her equally unlikely business and becomes an award winning inspiration to her clients and the wider business community not only in her own city but around the world.

The sports enthusiast while also on the course decides to start a club with the clear intention of dominating her chosen sport, winning championship after championship while gaining international recognition and success. Does all of it without any immediate resources, reputation or even experience in the sport itself.

If you are a MindStore member then you will know there is a specific process yet easy to practice and implement that actually tunes your thinking to maximize the ability to use your faculties with profound accuracy to better solve your problems and achieve the things you really want in your life. Whether that’s day to day stuff or those bigger things that matter and especially those things that others so easily talk themselves out of or convince themselves that they don’t deserve or can never have.

In this course you will learn to use that process to create in your mind an imaginary location, a landscape representing your creative and intuitive right brain. The various tools and techniques are built into a home you will construct there and are easily applied into your life. The process itself actually dissipates stress so you will be nice and relaxed as you purposefully exercise and stretch your right brain. As it unfolds among others you learn and experience how too

• Stimulate every cell and regenerating your entire system
• Uncover your unique life’s purpose and drive yourself to profoundly influence your own self, your family and friends and indeed with the wider world around you.
• Diminish those things that annoy you and inspire yourself to focus and take advantage of your opportunities.
• Be more aligned to enhanced self-awareness, better health choices and more nutritious food.
• Connect on a deeper level with those you love and care about. 
• Enhance all working relationships while being more confident in your power to influence and inspire 
• Tune into your intuition, improve your creativity and produce better solutions
• Get much more out of your recreation and literally improve your “game”

Again if you’ve done a MindStore course then you probably accept that our tools and techniques work.  Though maybe you don’t use them nearly enough. We will be able to tackle that too. You will be able to scrutinise your belief system and make the choices that constantly cause you to apply that which you learn and actively change for the better.

We know that most folks “get it” intellectually. They know about the right brain stuff, they know about the benefits of having an optimistic outlook and being positive but they don’t activate methods on a daily basis to access their right brain and more importantly have no purposeful means of reaching the subconscious to re-programme any self-sabotage and limiting beliefs.

You will be able to do both, you will learn to directly link to powerful levels of consciousness and have the means to rearrange how you go about your thinking and functioning. The very best news is that, these our best techniques yet don’t take hours and hours of practicing to perfect, they really do work in a matter of minutes.  That’s just a few minutes a day providing lasting and sustained results when it matters most. They just become a way of life and simply a part of your day to day routine.

I am glad that I have challenged myself to improve on our already wonderful stuff and I suppose I am challenging you now to attend.

See you there?

Jack

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That day we finished with the audience thinking that very thought and we put it out there. My thoughts also considered the recent atrocity of the young people in Norway and the young lad who was mauled to death by the polar bear.  Cleary we can programme our future, but still something much bigger is at work too.
After all these years and even with the proof from my calls and emails this morning, I just know absolutely and without doubt that MindStore Works, “it only works!”

The young folks in Glasgow are an inspiration, while the young lad and the Norwegians surely remind us to live every day to the full. Going to bed at night and having the final look in the mirror can we all say that we couldn’t have done any better? Setting goals and getting committed really means just that, making sure that every day is maximised to the full.

Time and time again, I tell audiences that programming the day is our most important technique.  You will probably only do it if you’re driven by the quality of your own goals and if not then you are really allowing your day to be programmed by others.
Taking ownership of our day to day life’s seems like never before to be really important. Taking the 10 minutes or so in the morning to think through your key activities for the day and programming the best possible outcomes gives you the edge.  Ultimately your intention and the power of attraction will collaborate to cause you to experience your day in the best possible way.

The fourth screen brings into your awareness and knowledge that being concerned for the benefits of others when you succeed raises your own consciousness and brings you in tune with the vibration of the universe, your higher self, your god, or whatever you prefer to call it.

The future is coming and you and I will live it day by day but never the less we genuinely have the ability to influence it through our goals and our daily programming.

The holiday inevitably had me exploring ideas for the future whilst giving me the time to re-evaluate my present goals.  Now back at work, I’m re-energised and focused on those goals as I get to work on various projects.

The future is indeed coming, and I strongly recommend that you take the time to consider your own goals at this time.  Maybe you can do as I did while enjoying the rays. All my activity with futurism of late resonates with this notion that the future is coming and I have the choice to let it come and go as it surely will without my programming it, or I can take personal ownership and create the future I desire.  So as you would expect, I’m going to programme whilst using the usual support material such as my Night Book, strategically placed photographs, affirmations and ultimately by taking action.  The future is on its way, so how do you intend to experience it?

Remember if you will that our techniques are not fanciful wishful thinking but well tested and successful means of utilising our ability, our dominant thoughts, through gestalt.

Keep smiling,

Jack

If you will remember we worked our way through a process during the course.  Among other things, I do all I can to build you up to identify an initial 30 goals.  It comes after explaining the left and right brain approaches to goal setting.  It also comes after me urging you to suspend the need for your left brain’s question of “HOW” you are going to achieve your goals.  Rather as you may remember in MindStore we focus on the “WHY”.  Just before turning on the music I point out how few people ever in an entire lifetime take the time to do this and even we only do it for 11 minutes.

Clearly something special happens collectively in that 11 minute period.  Having aroused the desire,   belief and probably the expectation, hundreds of folks are having a go at identifying the goals at exactly the same time.  What happens is everyone gets into a flow of consciousness and ideas inevitably come into their awareness that otherwise probably would never surface.  Trusting the process, they write them down on the work sheet.  It’s believed by many in this field that with the power of intention we probably place an imprint into the universe and with “programming” even just that once the universe gets to work to bring it all together in its own time and place sometime in the future.

Another fanciful viewpoint is that for some reason probably due to the collective intention we tune into the future as if we get a glimpse through some kind of portal and we process what we witness as an idea for a goal that comes into our awareness and then it’s written down.  Conjecture is that it’s already a reality in some dimension and it’s only a matter of time before we catch up. Or of course it’s all just a wonderful coincidence.
In the process, usually the next day, we work the 30 goals down to just 7 and then they are programmed with the four screens, though years ago were just as successful with three screens.  The goals are also written up in Night Books by real enthusiasts and they get to work on programming them by constantly going “Back to the future” in the Alpha State.  Yet so often for countless folks the goals that were thought about for a matter of seconds and written down once in the work sheet of 30, manifest anyway.  As I say this is very, very common.

Today though, my caller also pointed out that some of the specific content covering a number of her goals actually manifested though not as originally programmed.  Without going into her personal details she found specific bits of some came into reality but in a different context but still benefited her.
It’s clear though that given how common this is that something does seem to happen during that extraordinary 11 minutes.  “It’s frightening” she said “that they have come about all these years later and I hadn’t really thought about them again.”

There is definitely real power in the MindStore process and certainly something very special happens during the intensity of the 11 minutes.  It would be well worth you taking the time to look out past work sheets and see what’s happened for yourself.

There seem to be three outcomes from participating:
1. You end up with clarity on particular goals that you can commit to.  You then programme them on your screens and with repetition and the use of the wider tools and techniques the goals are achieved.
2. You think about other goals more or less just once as a result of doing the exercise.  They don’t make your top seven, you get on with your life and low and behold sometime in the future they become a reality too.
3. You create detail in components of goals that somehow or other get cross wired with others and even with not thinking about them again they also show up in the future though not in their original context but still to your advantage.

 My joy is that for hundreds of thousands of people, programming works whether by simply using the tip of the tongue trigger to find a parking space or to achieve big and life changing outcomes through the use of the screens and or Night Books.
What is important though is to actually be there and participate during those 11 minutes with the intention of identifying those initial 30 goals you desire in your life.

Programming works, “It only works” so what are you waiting on – programme the parking space, reaffirm your Top Seven, get the screens going. It’s the start of the summer- go for it, indeed all of it.

Jack Black will be present a very special MindStore Business Course in Glasgow on 14 June, Galway on 16 June and in Dublin on 17 June. To find out more visit: http://www.mindstore.com

How has it affected you? Or rather how have you allowed it to affect you?

Your thoughts and self talk determine how you deal with day to day situations and indeed how you overcome challenges and move on.  Over the years I have been lucky enough to meet and work with successful people within the world of business, entertainment and sport.  Without doubt each and every one of them were positive, optimistic and solution orientated – you certainly won’t have heard any of them moaning about the weather!  On the other hand the vast majority of people particularly in the western hemisphere seem to think about what they don’t want, focus on the negative and fear success as much as they fear failure or rejection. 

So remember, your thoughts and your speech reflect your attitude.  Your choice of words reflect just how you think and what you think is what you get!  In order to be successful in life, it’s critical that you adjust your language and your thinking in order to stay positive and programme for success no matter what the weather or the economy is doing.

Your moment to moment attitude determines how far, how high, how happy, how fulfilled, how peaceful and how authentic you live and enjoy your life.

We live in a culture where negativity is so easy to indulge in and often without a realisation. Remember to be truly present; to be truly alive is to be truly aware. Step back and observe your thinking, your language, even your day dreams and without any sense of self criticism if you find negativity present then purposefully “delete that programme”.

I met a very successful businessman in London yesterday, a real rags to riches story; a guy who got this basic message 20 years ago while in a despairing situation and immediately committed to being the eternal “positive optimist”, his words.
“Delete that programme”, our catchphrase, commands that we immediately replace the negative thought, words or deeds with positive alternatives. Day to day, moment to moment, naturally being on guard for any infiltrating negativity and using “delete that programme” ensures you rise above it and go on to succeed.

Remember too the bottle of water being thrown around the stage. Every negative moment drains your energy. Life is too precious to live in with diminished energy.

Keep smiling,

Jack

Our foundation has been rocked to the core.  Can you honestly believe what has happened to, of all things the banks?  So much of what we have been taking for granted, we can no longer rely on.  More and more, you and I have to fall back on our own resources.  

When we look around, its easy to see how much surplus of unnecessary stuff exists that we no longer need.  Perhaps, we really had too much, too much of everything.  And for our over consumption of the meaningless, we are all paying too much, and now when push must come to shove we really don’t need all that additional baggage.   

While we are willing to do whatever needs to be done, you have probably noticed something else.   We have far too much demand on our time, too many emails, too many projects and too many items on our to-do lists until we are almost overwhelmed by it all.  You probably need your staff or fellow team members to respond quicker, increasingly be more flexible, creative, willing to break down barriers and at all times be seen to collaborate, here there and everywhere. 

Of course, you want to thrive in what surely is the dawn of the upturn.  Yet in quiet moments, without anyone knowing, deep down you may just have a twinge of self doubt, even questioning your own abilities to deliver this time.  All of us have had a bit of our confidence eroded away while we have stood on shaky ground for so long.   And what if, old and no longer appropriate belief systems that drive behaviours and zap our energy supply are mismatched with what’s now required.  Many people have at the back of their mind, however controlled, honest fears about security.  Thoughts run like “Will my job be safe?” “How do I stay healthy and manage the stress of all this?” and “What about my family?”

So take heart, because it’s not only you, it’s also your colleagues, suppliers, customers…apparently everyone else around.

 Given half a chance, the media seems to be reinforcing a negative viewpoint.  And of course in the background there’s terrorism, wars, natural disasters, climate change and goodness knows what else.

Yet even with all of this, another part of you also knows that you can deliver.  You did before, and you have the talent, skills and most of all the willingness.  You know that you have great people around you too.  This duality of self is really apparent, particularly at this time and surely that doubting, fearful part can serve a positive function.  What if it can be leveraged to become an advantage?  If you, your colleagues, and everyone else contributing to the economy were able to do the same, well….

A big part of you wants to say “Stuff it, I’m going for it!” wants to breakout to take risks , to drive on and upwards, to overcome that other part that seems to want to hold you back and stifle your creativity and efforts.   

We all face internally and externally this duality of purpose.  We know that when we find a really creative right brained entrepreneur and we ensure there is a strong FD by his or her side then things will happen.  However, the entrepreneur needs to take the lead and initiate ideas and activity otherwise the accountant has nothing to count.  In other words, both are critical. 

So, what if the controlling risk averse and fearful side of our personalities actually serves a positive function?  What if it’s possible to leverage it so it becomes an asset, not only for you but for all those critical to you moving forward?  If we could have the wherewithal to realise all that is best in ourselves, to capitalise on our authentic selves and genuine strengths, to release our creativity and drive, then we can tackle anything as we begin to turn things around and rebuild that which will succeed and endure.

When we grasp this, and we’re actually able to apply tools and techniques, our mind opens up to thinking about new possibilities.  We rediscover our sense of curiosity.  We are more open to new ideas.  We once again get in touch with our creative and intuitive powers, the very essence of the extraordinary entrepreneur. 

The solutions and power to overcome this current economic climate lies within each of us, but only if we now finally accept that our life, our success, our wellbeing, wealth and security is our full and personal responsibility.   Far too many organisations are still not flexible and open enough to deal with the current global crisis.  So, those within organisations need to understand that the ownership of their career is their responsibility.  They also need to learn to be more flexible and develop their own creative and intuitive powers.