Calibrating your Senses 

I worked with a young man of 15 recently who told me that he hated school. He said to me "I can't learn anything".  So I asked him "do you learn anything outside of school?" He told me that he had studied martial arts since he was 7 and he began to show a glimmer of excitement. He said "that's totally different to school....I see clearly what the martial arts master shows me what to do and then I follow him". I asked him "what do you see in class?" and he look...
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"Only one  of the instincts inhibits motion,namely fear." Moshe Feldenkrais.

Imagine that you have in front of you a beautiful, exquisitely bound book and written on the front as you gently turn the book over you see your name and your story is inscribed with those immortal words "This is your Life". You see a hand take the solid fountain pen and hear the scratch of the nib as blue marks appear in front of you and the notes on the page begin to tell a story of someone who bec...
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Go with the FLOW

How come some people seem to find doing new things easy, like going to meet a group of new people , leading a meeting and influencing someone to do the right thing for the right reason.

Imagine that you have decided to influence someone to take a decision that you know is in their best interests and you know what to do and you haven't done it yet. Most people can come up with a string of good reasons ranging from the time is not right, the person to be influenced h...
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How do you know when you're having an intuition?

George, the entrepreneur is fantastic at closing deals, he seems to know exactly when to ask for the order and spots opportunities and closes orders that his colleagues simply miss.

Fiona, the coach is amazing at helping people to change rapidly and when she meets her peers they often ask "how does she do it?"

David, the manager is able to notice when someone in his team is performing well and often encourages them to go way bey...
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John Harris, an Account Director that I had the pleasure to work with said to me once "the more I practice, the better I get". 

Once you know how your intuition works then how do you take what already works well for you and continue to refine and improve that capability so over time it works even more reliably and consistently?

Ian Levine, who has been in the music business for years prides himself on having retained his integrity, stuck to mastering his craft, staying with his int...
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