Within our hard drive, or unconscious, we have software running, just like in our computer. These are programs that the unconscious uses to create our perception, experience, and behaviours, or in other words, the outputs.
The truth is the next moment is not guaranteed in this world. We live in a world of uncertainty and try to make it certain. We are actually completely out of control and yet we do our best to feel in control. Life is one big paradox, the co-existence of opposites.
The unconscious mind or subconscious mind is described in the MacBook dictionary as:
Subconscious – the part of one’s mind which one is not fully aware of but influences one’s actions and feelings. Not used in psychoanalysis where they prefer to use the word
Unconscious mind – the part of the mind, which the conscious mind, does not have access to and which affects behaviours and emotions.
Consider this, great “leaders inspect what they expect.” In business, top leadership conducts inspections as part of their risk management and quality assurance. Without proper inspection methods, even successful leaders experience how quickly things can go wrong.
Almost all of the business corporations I’ve worked with are challenged to find the balance between getting results and the well-being of their human capital or staff. They are so focused on external results that their leadership has not learned the science of performance from a health perspective.
I am always amazed when I observe a peak performance like Norway achieved in the recent Winter Olympics.
I was working with a golfer in Sweden on his mental game. He had a habit of being very critical of himself while playing. If he played a “bad shot,” he would really punish and berate himself. So we discussed the results of that and if it was helping him play better golf—and he agreed that it wasn’t.
Our climate and our planet is the most important topic on the table for humanity. That is why as a leader or future leader I write to you again today. It is the single greatest challenge for the Human Race to solve. It is going to take every one of us to stand up for our world that we live in and to learn to live properly and in harmony with her for the good of all.
The inner game, a term coined by Timothy Gallwey, is the sum total of our programming that has been created over the period of our lifetime.
500 million straws are used in the US everyday, that’s ½ a billion straws everyday going into the environment. Refuse the Straw movement started in the US and is gathering momentum around the world. Its focus is to educate pubs and restaurants on the destructive nature of the straw and change consumer behavior by stopping providing them.
