ABC of love: c is for compassion

c is for those who show concern for the misfortunes of others

Helping our children to understand the importance of compassion and the difference it can make to others is key. Take a look at this video from the Power of Positive Thinking. It defines compassion better than I can in words.

The ‘Power of Knowing’ leadership techniques

It is hard to be a great chef when you have never experienced a fantastic meal, looked at a recipe or felt the ingredients. You can learn the techniques to be able to lead yourself and your teams.

Enabling change from the inside out: to do this you need to gain insight into your strengths, potential need to change certain habits, the values you hold and determine your goals.

7 steps to achieving success:

  1. Know yourself – Identify what stage you are in your leadership and life. What you have learned so far? Have you acquired any bad habits? Discover what change is needed.
  2. Gain insight on your strengths that you can build on and identify weaknesses that need to be dealt with. Develop the art of becoming the ‘detached observer’.
  3. Focus and Intention – Learn the power of focus and intention. Where your energy goes things happen. But are you focusing on the right things? Clarifying your purpose and develop your personal compass for the next stage in your life and leadership.
  4. Values and Purpose – Identify the values that are connected to your purpose. These guide and influence your choices, decisions and relationships, plus shape your character as a leader
  5. Vision for the Future – Create the vision of what you want your future to look like. Learn to clarify your priorities in key areas of your life – professional, family & friends, yourself.
  6. Overcome Obstacles and Challenges – Explore the obstacles and challenges that need to be dealt with for you to achieve your vision. Identify root causes of old patterns that are compromising your success.
  7. Goals, Strategy and Action Plan – Define your goals, strategies and action plan to achieve your vision of the next chapter in your life. Learn how to sustain your energy, commitment and enthusiasm for the direction you choose.

Now bring your vision into reality

Alison Pooley-Wem – life coach, author and leadership consultant, MBCS CITP, former Business Transformation Director, IT Director, Programme Director who led major transformation programmes for corporate and multi-national organisations such as Amey PLC, Christies. News UK. read more

Associates

As the saying goes ‘Variety is the spice of life’.  When you are seeking to understand the world you live in, your place in it and who you are; variety of approach is good.  By trying different approaches you might find that one gives you greater insight than another.  However many people find it difficult to find authentic people who can show them their approach.

I have spent the last 20 years seeking out such people.  Below are people I have either worked with , been their student or their client.  I have found them helpful in my personal development. Of course you need to decide if they are right for you. read more

Creating Your Soul Map; e-book launched

NB; Instructions on obtaining the Kindle reader app is at the end of this article.

Thank you everybody who pre-ordered my book on Amazon.  I really appreciate your support in helping me to get the mighty Amazon engine working for me.

When I uploaded the book it was number 56,342 in my genre!  Wow now that is a challenge to get the book seen.  Just through the pre-orders this moved to number 20,335.  How good is that!!

If you have not looked at the book, now is your chance.  The book is fully launched so you can use the Amazon ‘look inside’ facility to sample the first chapter.  Creating Your Soul Map provides techniques to know yourself better and to build your personal calmness so you can operate more effectively at work and at home.  It is a short book which introduces these new techniques, the background on the templates to aid choosing and gets you started. read more

Your Soul Family: choose the cover for the next book

I would really appreciate your views on which cover to choose for my next book Finding Your Soul Family.

Here is the first book, still in the process of being published.

I am building a series of books which progresses you through the Your Soul Family (YSF) techniques to achieve a greater understanding of yourself and your life, plus personal development through accelerated learning of life lessons.  With this personal development comes calmness, harmony and wisdom.

I would like the book covers to reflect this journey through life and the increased awareness from self to being part of an eternal soul family. Your chakra colours of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, mauve reflects the communications you are having with your soul family and your personal development.  You have all achieved red as you are living a life in a physical body and managing to feed, clothe and house yourself. read more

Metaphysical Summer Walk in Hyde Park

Petra Maria Knickenberg is back in London, Tuesday, 29th August 2017 (one day only!!!)

Reconnecting with nature and the elements. Back to your roots and opening up to Spirit – Holistic balancing of mind, body and soul… Insights about your soul’s potential with a peaceful meditation & relaxing exercises at special places of power.
Ancient wisdom for our modern world… 

Women: do they make good coaches?

When I started my career in IT, I was often the only woman on the team.  What I observed was that men operated differently and I had to learn to adapt to a new set of team social rules.  In my experience men are;

  • much more direct
  • may even shout at you when irritated
  • not hold a grudge afterwards.

Having a mentor to help with this learning became an imperative for me and was enormously beneficial.

If like me you are in the second half of your career, you may have ruminated on how you operate in the workplace.  Meeting up with a former manager from my youth, he reminded me how when I first worked for him I did not speak up in a group situation, even when he knew I had some good ideas.  This is not an uncommon trait in a woman at work. read more

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