Sunday, March 1, 2009

Feb 16, 2009: The Art of Worldly Wisdom by Baltasar Gracian

Thank you for a great meeting on the 26th! Special thanks to Diana Adams for preparing and leading a substantive session. I loved the connections to the Sandler principles and was especially taken by the fact this book was written a few hundred years ago and is still so relevant to our world of business today.

As I reflect on three meetings we have had so far, I realize that the "take aways" I end up sharing at the end of the meetings do not often summarize the real impact they have on me.

The things that we discuss stay with me for a quite a few days after the meetings. This time, for example, I started thinking a lot about how I perceive some of the tasks I need to do in my business, bookkeeping for example, that I don't like to do or don't come to me naturally.

Yesterday, I went to my office to catch up with my bookkeeping and found myself surprisingly efficient and effortless. I also did not dread it as much as I normally did before. I found that a lot of the negative emotions that come up as I begin the task were much, much reduced. I actually ended up enjoying some portions of it!

So thank you again for making an impact on my work and my life. I am looking forward to the next meeting on March 12th - same time, same place.

Happy Success!
Bhavesh.

5 comments:

  1. I recently was at a 3-day Zoetic Meditation workshop that ran 9am - midnight. By the end of the third day I was pretty tired. The instructor asked us to do a blind dance. I was resentful of the request and tired - then I remembered some of the values that we had agreed to at the beginning of the workshop - to be in a state of wonder and to be playful. I instantly changed my attitude to one of wonder and play - and my tiredness and irritation dropped at the same time. This is a reminder to me to bring wonder and play into my work tasks, especially if they are ones I put off...

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  2. i love michael's experience at this workshop. something else i believe in is the power of napping, banal and fundamental as it might sound. when i am tired, my brain gets ...wierd. less effective is to put it kindly.

    after a deep relaxation, or a nap, it seems to 're-set' the brain into a smoother electrical pattern, and facing tasks that i am not strong in becomes easier.

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