Five Rings Training

We get what we focus on. I think many people have heard this phrase or similar such as "energy flows where attention goes" "you get what you think about" and so on, but what does this mean? Many of my clients speak of having spent time concentrating on what they want to achieve and then getting frustrated when it didn’t happen. There’s one simple reason for this and it’s TIME. Thinking about something and doing something about it are two different things. When we give something our time then we do both: thought and action. Thought, action and speech are our tools for creation in this life.  The more we can apply our thoughts and actions and speech to a vision or lifeplan the more energy of creation we apply to it. When we look at our weekly schedule, how much time are we giving our thoughts, action and speech towards our cause or goals? Often not very much but expecting results all the same. I work with athletes as well as business leaders and th...

Why the I've Done list is as important as the To Do list One of the best production tools I've ever used is my I've Done list. My To Do list gets written every night before I go to bed: a considered and realistic list of items to be ticked off the following day. Typically these sit in two categories of: Things I need to do Things I want to Asterisk the ones which make me money. Highlight the ones which are good for me. Delete as many of the others as possible. That's a simple To Do list efficiency tool because half the time the things we think we should be doing aren't the things which are useful to us, at all. I could go into more depth here by explaining that the 2 hours of yoga and the 10km run plus the half hour spiritual study and afternoon power nap are list features I consider to be as important as nurturing new clients and sending out invoices. That's for another post on daily actions, coming soon. For now we'll assume whatever is on...