by DavidFraser | Oct 15, 2012 | Communication, People Magic, Relationship Skills
If you state you’re withholding information, you create a barrier between yourself and the people you are with. You break the connection. If you must have secrets, keep even that a secret. Of course, you must respect confidences, and not share what you’re not meant to...
by DavidFraser | Oct 12, 2012 | Change, Communication, Organizations, Wisdom
We hear it so often: “People don’t like change.” That isn’t quite right: After all, most of us would like a doubling of our income, or the gift of a free holiday with everything taken care of. We like that kind of change. Really, it’s that we don’t like feeling...
by DavidFraser | Sep 28, 2012 | Change, Leadership, Personal Mastery
We tend to think of leadership as something we do consciously. In fact, it’s not really like that at all. After all… As ground-breaking doctor and hypno-therapist, Milton Erickson said “what you don’t realise is your life is mostly...
by DavidFraser | Sep 24, 2012 | Energy, Personal Mastery, Relationship Skills
People interacting with one another have sensory experiences involving images, sounds and feelings. Yet we’re often tempted to reach for analytical models; to turn the flesh and blood experience into an intellectual exercise and try to manage relationships at that...
by DavidFraser | Sep 19, 2012 | Leadership, Personal Mastery, Scotland
He travelled 18,297 miles round the world on a bicycle and beat his target of 195 days by 8 hours. His target was in reality an arbitrary estimate based on 100 miles per day with an allowance for unforeseen difficulties. In so doing, he smashed the previous world...