Yearly Archives: 2010

Stopping meditation from Neale Donald Walsch


posted in Jane's Blog

If you’re on my Spirit of RichThinking mailing list, you’ll have seen the article about How stopping instead of starting saves you time (read it here).

In repsonse to this, a colleague sent me a ‘stopping’ meditation from Neale Donald Walsch, author of the Conversation with God series.

Here it is — and I recommend it, it works really well:

Stop whatever you are doing for the moment and pay full attention to something about it. Focus closely on this aspect. Peer into it deeply. Eg while doing the dishes, look closely at the at the water, count the drops on your hand etc, walking down the street, fully observe a dog, a garden etc.. Get inside your consciousness and deeply experience this moment (more...)

Thinking Rich talk


posted in Jane's Blog

Earlier this week I gave a talk to the Moray Women @ Work branch of the WEA.

It was all about how thinking rich could give you a good experience in your daily working life. At least, that was what it was supposed to be about!

Within the first ten minutes I realised I had made some assumptions about this group of women which were not being borne out. What’s more, the talk I had prepared wasn’t going to address their needs!

Thank goodness for my years of experience with presenting workshops and talks; and thank goodness for my more recent years of experience at Toastmasters, where you are often picked on to talk about a topic off the cuff. All this enabled me to change tack almost (more...)

Paul Hawken, Findhorn Foundation and your business


posted in Business Basics, Heart of RichThinking, Jane's Blog

Yesterday I was giving a tour round the Findhorn Foundation, Scotland, and just before I set off, Richard in the Visitors Centre handed me a copy of Paul Hawken’s commencement address to the Class of 2009 at the University of Portland, Oregon.

“Read it”, he said, “it’s incredible, really inspiring!”

“Is it the same Paul Hawken who visited Findhorn in the seventies and wrote The Magic of Findhorn?” I said.

And indeed it is. That book is out of print, but at the time it was famous for telling the world about the enormous vegetables being grown at Findhorn at the time, which led to the huge community expansion that happened in those years. Paul has since then written 6 other books, the latest being Blessed Unrest: How (more...)

Blogging from under the duvet


posted in Jane's Blog

As I write this, I’m sitting in bed. I’d been having an afternoon nap and wasn’t quite ready to get up, so I brought the laptop back to bed with me. After all, who said you always have to work from your desk or your office?

It never occurred to me to do this until I met a friend whom I haven’t seen for a while, and she described her day to me. With a young child, I was interested how she managed to make time for her own writing.

“We take it in turns to take care of Daniel, and when it’s his turn to do the childcare, I scarper back to bed with my laptop. I love it. There’s masses of room, its the most (more...)

7 tips for keeping focused on what you really want in your business


posted in Articles

I have a friend who owns a shop and is constricted for various reasons on how much she can develop it. Yesterday she was telling me how challenging it was to be there on a daily basis, trying to keep her eye focused on the big picture of what she wants, and the experience that that brings her, when all around she is surrounded by details of things being not quite how she wants them to be.

I really felt for her as she described some of the things she wanted to change but was having to hold back on for the time being.

So what do you do when you know the experience you want, the results to be achieved, and yet you (more...)

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