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Ralph Simone
Is It Time To Break Your Pattern?
BREAKING PATTERNS When I was training in the martial arts several years ago, I was asked to help out with black belt candidates who were having trouble running three miles in under 24 minutes. It was often the last and most frustrating hurdle for many, the only thing keeping them from achieving their goal of…
Reframe your game.
When something is not working for you or proves to be unresouceful, trying harder doesn’t always work, especially if you are just trying the same thing – that already didn’t work – with more intensity. “Insanity is doing the same thing and expecting different results.” – Albert Einstein This is when “reframing the game” can be…
Do You Flow Like Water?
Years ago I was struck by Bruce Lee’s philosophy regarding the martial arts, which was to flow like water. He described limitations of any single style of martial art and trained himself and his students to be extremely adaptable and to utilize whatever works. This philosophy or principle can work well for us in the…
What’s Your Direction?
IT IS NOT THE SPEED, BUT THE DIRECTION How many things can help us move faster? Faster internet, faster planes, fast cars, faster products to help us clean, study, and lose weight. But with all of the things that are taking us places faster, are we even going in the right direction? Life can move at…
On Purpose: Being vs. Doing
I continue to be intrigued by the notion of purpose and how “what you do” is less important than “how you do it.” How you do anything in this moment is a reflection of your inner purpose. Energetically, we are all vibrating at a higher level when our inner purpose is connected with our outer…
Strengthening Emotional and Spiritual Intelligence
Emotional intelligence is creating quite a buzz in corporate America. Organizations appreciate the benefits and bottom-line results they receive when their leaders consistently connect emotionally with their employees. The ability to emotionally connect with employees is inspiring and creates a stronger sense of followership in supporting the organization’s mission and high-leverage goals. Recognizing our own…
When Being a “Slacker” is Positive
Slack “Slacker,” “slacking off” – not something that most people appreciate or strive for as a descriptive adjective. But what if I could help you understand that one of the surest ways to increase bandwidth and true productivity is to become a slacker? In their book “Scarcity,” authors Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir explain the…
What Are You Wasting?
SUSTAINABILITY Recently I have had several opportunities to be introduced to organizations and individuals who are involved with this concept of sustainability and renewable energy – the green movement. I was intrigued by the concept and how we could apply it to the environment and my interest immediately became focused closer to home. More specifically,…
Are You Too “Plugged In?”
UNPLUG AND RECONNECT Technology provides us with a plethora of opportunities to reach out and touch someone. We are able to connect or reconnect with family, old friends, business colleagues and classmates. But the irony is that being “plugged in” has at times caused us to tune out, and this can seriously threaten our ability…
Competition – How Much is Too Much?
Let me start out by stating that I am competitive, at times very competitive, so as I ask you to reflect on the title of this article, I am reflecting right along with you. The emphasis on winning at times has become all consuming – be the fastest, smartest, win the game, get the highest…