By Kevin Brown | Bio
Recently I was speaking with a friend about
his bright four-year-old son. During the conversation, my friend noted
how he was amazed at the ability of his son to recall events and
details that had occurred many months prior. He marveled that his son
could so easily and effortlessly recall information that for most
adults would have long since been forgotten. Upon hearing his comments, I rather jokingly gave my normal response
when confronted with similar comments about smart children with great
memory. “It’s not that children have such great memory, they just have
not experienced enough of life to have the mass of information stored
in their brains that adults do!” I was clinging to[ Read More]
Written by eldering at Fearless Aging
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By Charles E. Smith | Bio
Of great influence in my thinking has been The Urban Shaman
by Serge Kahlili King. One of his assertions was that “energy flows
where the attention goes.” My work was always shaped by where the CEO
or the leader was putting his or her attention. My life is shaped by
where I’m putting my attention. And with everybody I knew, their lives
were affected by where they placed their attention. What I hadn’t seen
before was that energy accompanied attention and that certain kinds of
attention enhanced energy. In organizations, outward results can be
directly linked to the energy created from where the attention flows. [ Read More]
Written by eldering at Leadership
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By Marilyn Hay
How much do we miss in non-verbal communication just in passing? Do we
respond to what other people are telling us about themselves
unconsciously, simply responding to their words? Or do we check what
they’re saying against the non-verbal cues they are unconsciously
projecting? I call these unconscious messages ‘heartsongs’.[ Read More]
Written by eldering at Learning
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