Free Personal Development "5Minute Seminars" - Extra-Ordinary Leadership
How to Lead Your Life	4mins : 08secs
We all think that we're leading our lives - but truth is we're not even following! The normal person is so brain-dead that they're simply going through the motions - and missing out on all the wonder and beauty of life and its opportunities. You need to wake up, rise from the dead. You need to come to your senses - literally. You have five of them - use them and you might just find what you're looking for...
The Importance of Intolerance	5mins : 09secs
If you live in a clear and present mind you will understand the importance of the intolerance of inappropriate behaviour. Don't suffer fools gladly - not only will they sap your own energy - but give inappropriate behaviour and inch and it will take a mile. All the worst forms of outrageous behaviour start with a blind eye being turned to something small, yet inappropriate. Don't put up with it - because, if you do, the resulting chain reaction will lead to all kinds of difficulties and conflict.
Living Outside the Box	4mins : 59secs
People often talk about 'thinking outside the box' - doing things differently or imaginatively. They like talking about it - but they rarely do it - neither in business nor in their personal lives. Why? It requires being different - and they're afraid to stand out from the crowd too much, in case people might think that they're abnormal. However, you must realise that there is no box - you only think that things have to be done a certain way - that you have to live your life according to the 'rules', that you have weaknesses as well as strengths...
How to Cope When Things Go Wrong!	5mins : 12secs
Crap happens ...all of the time! And the problem is that, normally, we react to all the shit and make things even worse. Of course, the best way to deal with the bad stuff that life throws at us - big and small - is to simply deal with it and move on. But, often, we get upset, disappointed, angry, victimised. And that gets in the way of doing the bets we can to do the right thing and get on with our lives. You need to understand that acting - not reacting - makes life so much easier, enables you handle the crap and be the better for the experience...
Do Business Leaders Really Want More of the Same?	5mins : 24secs
The primary goal of business is to make most profit for least effort - that's why people set up their own businesses, that's why people invest in businesses - that's why people go to work (if it's not why you're doing it, perhaps you should take a little time to reflect). The key determinant of success is competitive advantage - or, in simple English, being different. Why is it then, that business people want to run their businesses from the same failed management principles that have brought world economies to their knees?
The Global Recession and Mass Hysteria	7mins : 17secs
If you've your savings in the bank or your pension is linked to stock markets, then you'll be fully aware of the recent chain of events on global markets. But, the way so-called intelligent people play 'follow-the-leader' is more like the blind leading the blind! If only the highly paid people who look after our money knew how to look after their own state of mind...
Are You a Leader (or are you a loser!)?	6mins : 09secs
What's the difference between a "Leader" and a "Manager"? A "Leader" simply has more presence than all the rest of the "normal" losers! The good news is that every single one of us is a born leader - becuase we all had oodles of presence when we were little kids. We've simply got to reclaim our birthright by re-learning how to be more present in the present moment than the pathetic 1% that so-called "normal" people "rise to"...
Doing the Right Thing	8mins : 08secs
You're either doing the right thing or you're doing the wrong thing - there are no grey areas. There are huge benefits of "doing the right thing" in terms of how you place yourself in "flow" with universal energy. Research shows that normal people are incapable of doing what's really the most important thing - living in and experiencing the here and now. The whole universe works on a simple principal - energy in : energy out - put an abnormal amount of energy in and you will create an abnormally successful life...
Crazy Parents, Crazy Kids	5mins : 30secs
Decades of research prove that normal adults are crazy. So normal crazy parents are simply going through the motions of preparing their much-loved children to be normal crazy adults too. Who would do that? Don't we all want our children to have better lives than we ourselves have? They can - you can - but you have to start being abnormal. It's not as scary as it sounds - it's a wonderful journey that will change the lives of everyone involved...
Success or Failure - the choice is YOURS	8mins : 15secs
Your success - or failure - is dictated by your behaviour which, in turn, is determined by your subconscious mind. So-called "normal" people's subconscious mind automatically creates reactive behaviour "mindlessly" and, as a result, creates a life that's, at best, "not-too-bad". That's not good enough. Realise that your ability to be successful is directly linked to your ability to pay attention. Learn how to be present - through cultivating your innate ability to experience the present moment...
Visualizing Success	5mins : 26secs
Why are normal people rarely successful? Why are normal lives "not too bad"? Normal people don't understand that it's your subconscious mind that creates your behaviour, controls and creates your life. And your subconscious only understands pictures. You can "program" your subconscious with pictures of the success your heart desires. Once "programmed", your subconscious will develop new behaviours and create your new life... it's how your mind works anyway!
Get Over Yourself!!	4mins : 22secs
Most people will appreciate that their perceived weaknesses hold them back from achieving all that they would wish to achieve. But has it ever occurred to you that your strengths might prove just as big a disadvantage? In the same way that our weaknesses are simply perceptions borne out of our childhood years - so are our perceived strengths. And those strengths box us in to a view of ourselves that closes off so many other options and potentially life-changing opportunities...
Killer Presentations!	4mins : 45secs
Everyone likes to be perfectly prepared and psyched-up for that all important presentation or speech. But how do you know when you're going to make the most important presentation of your life? How would you know when you're going to have to be at your very best? Because, as we go through life, we stumble across strangers who become our most intimate friends and partners - personally and in business. We need to be alert all the time - to make the best impression we can - for that next all important stranger...
The Lost Art of Doing Nothing	4mins : 00secs
Modern life is all go - and we all think that we're wasting our time if we spend a little of it doing nothing. Wrong! The Buddha was sitting under a tree when he became enlightened - so was Sir Isaac Newton when the penny dropped (or was it an apple!) You need to give yourself space and time to see the wood for the trees - time to be inspired. And, if you think you're short of time already, why not carry out a little review of all the things that you shouldn't bother doing that add nothing (or detract) from the quality of your life.
Success, Clarity and Presence	5mins : 17secs
If you want to achieve happiness and effortless success, all you have to do is have a clear and present mind - one that actually experiences what's really going on, in the moment. Unfortunately, normal adults experience "reality" through a fog of useless thought and, therefore, are incapable of spotting the opportunities that, in real reality, are staring us in the face. You need to start seeing what's before your very eyes - you need to re-learn how to be alert to the here and now...
Be the Miracle!	3mins : 50sces
Too many people are waiting for something to happen in their lives. But nothing will ever change if you keep waiting or, for that matter, keep on simply doing the same things. If you want a miracle to happen, you've got to be the miracle. Change starts with you changing your ways. You can start with really small stuff - simply doing small things in different ways - because doing so changes the way that you use your mind and opens you up to doing new things and making far reaching changes oh so easily...
Being Inspired - and Inspiring	4mins : 30secs
Inspiration may "strike" us infrequently during our normal everyday lives - and, yet, inspiration is all around us all of the time - it's just that normal people (the mad people) not just don't know how to call upon it - they don't even know that they can. But you - people visiting Gurdy.Net - know differently. We can all be inspired and, as a result, be a life-changing inspiration to those who depend upon us. The secret is to know how to set your antennae onto "receive" mode - once set, a tidal wave of opportunity awaits...
How to Create an Abnormal Business - with Emmet Browne - GM Wyeth Pharmaceuticals	4mins : 37secs
Most businesses are normal - run by normal people who, research shows, are crazy. Even many successul businesses are only successful against a pathetically low norm. So, given the choice, who would want to create and run a normal business, when you could be spectacularly different and spectacularly successul. Here, Emmet Browne, GM Wyeth, talks about the difference - and how anyone can unlock their own ability to be exceptionally successful...
Planning for the New Year	5mins : 25secs
Each Autumn starts the business process of planning for the coming year. Unfortunately, each year normal businesses all over the world plan next year based on what they've achieved this year. But who wants a normal business when you could be abnormally successful and stand head and shoulders above the crowd? However, if you want to achieve abnormal success, you, yourself, are going to have to behave differently. You are going to have to be abnormal. Then the magic can begin...
Planning Will Get You Nowhere	3mins : 41secs
Is it planning that has got you to where you are in your business, your career, you life? Or is it a string of events - some of which appear to be random - that have brought you to now? Planning never works - plans are never implemented as intended, because business and life is a constantly moving target. Worst of all, plans can actually move you away from what might be the best things in life for you. You'd be far better off simply pointing your inner self in the right direction, exciting yourself with a picture of what it would be like to "have it all" - and then see what happens..
Stress and Reality	6mins : 45secs
Stressed? Aprehensive? Your feelings have nothing to do with what's actually going on. Instead, your subconscious mind is creating these feelings based on what it believes to be going on which, in turn, is based on the subconscious baggage that you've been carrying since your formative years. So if you're stressed, you're a couple of steps removed from reality. You need to clear your mind and be present. But there's no point trying this when you're stressed - you've got to get yourself in training...
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