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Corporate Responsibility, Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship

Andrew Bryant, CSP, PCC — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 22:40:38 +0000

Learn from my good friend and colleague, Ian Berry, Alexander Blass and myself about how doing good is great for your business and your life – Singapore, August 17, 2010. (click the image for details).

Self Leadership and Choice

Andrew Bryant, CSP, PCC — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 00:55:15 +0000

As a continuation of my previous blog post Permission to Succeed I wanted to share the story of a coaching client who was allowing a number of people, some no longer living, to control what he was or was not allowed to do. This man in his late 30′s did not have full permission to think for himself, to really choose the life he wanted. The anxiety this caused was seriously impeding his success.

With self leadership coaching he came to the powerful realisation that it his ‘Mind’ his ‘Choices’ and his ‘Life’.

If, like my client, you are lacking ‘permission’ by taking ownership and responsibility of your mind, your choices an your life puts you in the drivers seat and enables you to create the personal or business success you want.

Confirmation of this power to choose is the theme of the final part of The Matrix movie trilogy. The character Neo is able to triumph over Agent Smith when, after prompting from The Oracle, he re-discovers his power of choice.

Is there an area in your life or career that you have been saying “I have no choice”? I wonder what would happen if you were to take responsibility and say; “My mind, my choice, my life!”

My coaching client did take control and left a low paying, menial job and started traveling; he settled in Vietnam where he started a business and met the love of his life.

If you would like coaching to assist you achieve this positive and powerful choice then connect to a coach or attend one of our self leadership programs.

Finding the Humor in Life

Andrew Bryant, CSP, PCC — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 07:44:59 +0000

With the current economic downturn it is easy to be sad and serious and much harder to be lighthearted and fun – or is it?

Humor is a great stress reliever with many positive health benefits and importantly in this current climate it causes us to step back and get a new perspective.

Allow me to share with you what a fun week I have had with the intention of inspiring you to have a little laugh…

On Tuesday night I performed 8 minutes of stand-up comedy; this had been on my bucket list for years as I had heard that stand-up is a real test of skill. The aim of stand-up is to get six laughs a minute which is a hell of an achievement with a group of strangers. I didn’t get 6 laughs a minute but I did get the crowd to laugh as you can see and hear on this YouTube Video.

The unexpected bonus I had from doing stand-up comedy is that I am now seeing funny things in many more places; at work, in the street, in my relationships, everywhere! And the benefit of this is that I feel better at work and my relationships have improved noticeably.

Today we took our staff to lunch as one team member is leaving and another is having a birthday. We had a delicious lunch and with huge servings of laughter; we laughed at so many things and I think that we significantly improved the morale of the team.

One of our associates laughs for up to 5 minutes every morning as part of his preparation for the day – he says it raises his engergy better than a double shot latte. So as you read this just take stock of how much you have laughed this week? Do you need to hire some funny videos or go to a stand up comedy club yourself?

Here’s wishing you fun, lightness and laughter in the days ahead.

How not to Manage your Health

Andrew Bryant, CSP, PCC — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 05:01:36 +0000

We often lead and manage others whilst paying little attention to how we manage ourselves.

As a wake up call to all of us I thought I would post 13 ways to mis-manage your health and seriously reduce your happiness and life expectancy.

Believe you are immortal or believe that illness only happens to other ‘weaker’ people. Never have a health check or listen to advice.
Don’t exercise; avoid all types of physical activity especially anything that makes you lightly puff.
Smoke 2 packs a day.
Bottle up all your feelings; avoid sharing with friends, family or any strong social support group.
Drink alcohol excessively.
Drive very fast and drink alcohol excessively.
Get angry with everyone and everything, blame others and take no responsibility for your situation.
Never take a break or time to relax, holidays are for wimps!
Ignore your bodies warning signs like chest pains, headaches, shortness of breath and dizziness.
Over eat especially high fat, high sugar junk food. Aim to become morbidly obese.
Multitask and have a strong sense of time urgency. This will you to cultivate being angry when anyone interupts you.
Worry constantly especially about things that may never happen; this will prevent you doing the things you need to do and help you to maintain a depressed state.
Practice being really selfish: Whatever you do don’t laugh or share a kind word with another human being.

Feel free to add to the list via your comments, but most importantly exercise self leadership and, in the words of Mr. Spock of Startreck, “Live long and prosper.”