http://blog.yourmakeithappencoach.com Make Your Change Happen: Taking you and your team to the next level Thu, 15 Jul 2010 09:34:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en http://blog.yourmakeithappencoach.com/2010/07/pictures-from-the-beijing-olypmic-triathlon-july-2010/ Having just completed the longest bike ride of my life, I thought it would be good to share a few insights I got from the event. I would like to use this as a metaphor to contrast with how successful people go about achieving their own goals – business ... http://blog.yourmakeithappencoach.com/2010/06/lessons-from-a-240km-150-mile-bike-ride-through-mountain-elevations-of-1600-meters-long-article/ I was fortunate to be in India last year for the Ganesh festival which was a great experience. The elephant is an important symbol for intelligence in India and other African cultures. Ganesh represents worldly wisdom and is the patron the book trade. Source: 1,001 Symbols: An Illustrated Guide to Imagery and ... http://blog.yourmakeithappencoach.com/2010/05/the-change-catalyst-symbol-of-the-week-wisdom/ Blue is one of my favourite colours and it is also a symbol of knowledge and learning. The Chinese used blue to represent scholarship and in Buddhism conveys a wider meaning of spiritual knowledge. In Jungian psychology, blue is used to suggest the calm life of the conscious mind. No wonder ... http://blog.yourmakeithappencoach.com/2010/05/the-change-catalyst-symbol-of-the-week-learning/ Sympathetic magic - transferring or imitating elements of a symbol - was often used in primitive cultures. They believed that such a symbol's strengths could be used as a cure. So as ants are regarded as highly productive and never resting - but eating them some cultures in North Africa ... http://blog.yourmakeithappencoach.com/2010/05/the-change-catalyst-symbol-of-the-week-health/ In many folk tales around the world, the egg is a symbol of unexpected wealth. Perhaps it is because of the golden yellow yolk concealed inside the shell.  Also, the yolk could symbolise the sun, an important symbol of life and comfort. Gooses lay golden eggs and dragons guard them. Source: 1,001 Symbols: ... http://blog.yourmakeithappencoach.com/2010/05/the-change-catalyst-symbol-of-the-week-wealth/ A weapon, howsoever powerful it may be, Can always be superseded by a superior one; But no weapon can, however, be superior to nonviolence and love. - Jainist Prayer for Peace http://blog.yourmakeithappencoach.com/2010/04/the-change-catalyst-quote-of-the-week-3/ Remember that you came here realizing the necessity of struggling only with yourself and thank anyone who helps you engage in this struggle. - George Ivanovich Gurdjieff It is easier to strike out at other people. Easy to attack with words and emotions. Easy to talk about someone behind their backs. ... http://blog.yourmakeithappencoach.com/2010/04/the-change-catalyst-quote-of-the-week-2/ The back porch is more secure, but the fun is in jumping the fences. - Marjorie Holmes Take the ram by the horns and take a risk. Try something new. Eat at a new restaurant. Drive a different way to work. Book a holiday somewhere you have never been before. Explore ... http://blog.yourmakeithappencoach.com/2010/04/the-change-catalyst-quote-of-the-week/ And yet, there is only One great thing, the only thing: To live to see in huts and on journeys the great day that dawns, And the light that fills the world. - INUIT SONG Take a break from your day and pause. Take a look around you and find the "one great thing" ... http://blog.yourmakeithappencoach.com/2010/04/the-change-catalyst-thought-of-the-week/