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JST 246 – Your True Self

Posted on December 19, 2018 by Jamie Smart

“Most people tiptoe through life, hoping to make it safely to death.”
Earl Nightingale, Author, speaker, radio personality

This is my last JST before we pause for the holidays, so I just want to take a moment to wish you and your loved ones a happy, peaceful and restful time over the next few weeks. I know for some people, this can be quite a challenging time of the year, so it can be worth remembering to take it easy on yourself and on the people you care about. A little kindness goes a long way, so I encourage you to start by being kind to yourself. At Clarity HQ, we believe the most valuable thing a person can do is discover how their mind works so they can wake to the truth of who they really are. We’ve got some very cool, brand new stuff planned for 2019 in relation to this, so I’ll be telling you all about it in the weeks and months ahead.

TTE 176 – Exponential insight and the strategy equation

Posted on December 13, 2018 by Jamie Smart

It’s enthusiasm time again. Let me know what you think via twitter at @JamieSmartCom, on my Facebook page, or on my blog below.

1. A quote I’m resonating with this week
Ray Kurzweil is one of the most accurate futurists of all time. In the 1990s he made over 140 predictions about what life would be like today. 86% of them were accurate and timely. One of the things that informs his predictions as a futurist is his understanding of the exponential nature of technology:

“Our intuition about the future is linear. But the reality of information technology is exponential, and that makes a profound difference. If I take 30 steps linearly, I get to 30. If I take 30 steps exponentially, I get to a billion.”

TTE 175 – Destroying the ego, freedom and kingfishers

Posted on December 6, 2018 by Jamie Smart

It’s enthusiasm time again. Let me know what you think via twitter at @JamieSmartCom, on my Facebook page, or on my blog below.

1. A quote I’m resonating with this week
I’ve been listening to an old Syd Banks recording (one I’ve heard many times) but these sentences leapt out at me today. Of course, Banks would be the first to say that you can’t actually get rid of the ego, but the thing that struck me here was this: that phrase, “Oh God, I want nothing to do with it.” I suddenly heard the ‘aversion’ to the ego; the instinctive sense that while it may always be with us, it isn’t worth paying attention to.

“You gotta destroy the ego… throw it away, oh God I want nothing to do with it… really, this is where freedom is…”

#015 – DEMO: Social Anxiety and Awakening the True Self – Thriving Coaches Podcast

Posted on December 6, 2018 by Jamie Smart

Released 6th Dec 2018 Subscribe: Spotify | iTunes | Stitcher

Last weekend was module 3 of the 10-month Clarity Coach Training programme. On the very first module, back in September, I did a 1:1 coaching session with Anna Foakes. Anna is a therapist who’s passionate about making a difference to her clients, but who experienced stress and “social anxiety” when she was in larger groups of people. She volunteered to do a coaching demo with me, and it turned it to be fascinating for a number of reasons:

JST 245 – How to share the principles behind clarity

Posted on December 4, 2018 by Jamie Smart

Almost everyone who gets impacted by the principles behind clarity asks some flavour of the question, “Why doesn’t everybody know this?” This is often followed by a deep desire to “get this out there”; to share what they’ve realised with people they care about (an endeavour that sometimes proves more challenging than expected). In this article we’re going to look at the essence of sharing this understanding with another person (or group of people).

Let’s start with a brief excerpt from my 2016 book RESULTS (© Jamie Smart 2016, published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd)

TTE 174 – Internal dialogue and medicine for the soul

Posted on November 29, 2018 by Jamie Smart

It’s enthusiasm time again. Let me know what you think via twitter at @JamieSmartCom, on my Facebook page, or on my blog below.

1. A quote I’m resonating with this week
At last week’s Resilient Young Minds conference, my friend and colleague Dr Rani Bora gave a beautiful talk called, “No-one Is Broken.” Rani’s a psychiatrist, and she explained that the word “psychiatry” means “medicine for the soul (it comes from the words “psyche” meaning soul and “iatre” meaning medicine). Then she asked this question:

“What medicine does a soul need? I’m posing that to you, because how will we ever find it? Will it come in lotions, in potions? Is it going to be tablets, capsules? And in what dose? As physicians, one of the things we have is a prescription pad. And a wise physician once said, “If someone is really struggling, give them love.” He was asked what to do if that doesn’t work, and he replied, “Increase the dose.”

#017 – Keynote – Resilient Young Minds: A Vision For The Future – Get Clarity Podcast

Posted on November 29, 2018 by Jamie Smart

Released 29th Nov 2018 Subscribe: Spotify | iTunes | Stitcher

In this episode of the get clarity podcast, you’re going to hear a keynote speech I gave at the Resilient Young Minds conference recently. The conference was attended by Teachers, school leaders, Youth Workers, Charity workers, Coaches, Parents, Business owners and a number of young people who joined us. The conference set out to demonstrate that young people:
– Are not broken
– Do not need to be ‘fixed’
– Have resilience, resourcefulness and wellbeing inbuilt

Of course, this doesn’t just apply to young people – it applies to all of us. I was joined by many friends and colleagues, and it was really heartening to see how many young people and people who support young people are being moved by this understanding.

JST 244 – The heart of clarity, resilience and wellbeing

Posted on November 28, 2018 by Jamie Smart

Last week I spoke at 2 conferences, the Ignite Conference in St Gallen, Switzerland and the Resilient Young Minds (RYM) Conference in Devon, UK (we’re going to be releasing my 15-minute keynote from the Devon conference on the Get Clarity Podcast later this week, so look out for that). On the surface, my topic for each conference was quite different, but the core of what I shared with each audience was the same, so that’s what this week’s article is about: the heart of clarity, resilience and wellbeing.

So let me set the scene. The audience at Ignite were business school students at St Gallen University, so my topic was ‘The Power of Purpose’ (a subject close to their hearts). At the RYM conference, the audience was a mix of young people and people who work with young people and my topic was ‘A Vision For The Future’, however… an earlier promotional piece for the conference had said I’d be talking about ‘Resolving the roots of youth violence’, so I wanted to make sure I covered that too!

TTE 173 – Zurich, schizophrenia and revolution

Posted on November 22, 2018 by Jamie Smart

It’s enthusiasm time again. Let me know what you think via twitter at @JamieSmartCom, on my Facebook page, or on my blog below.

1. A quote I’m resonating with this week
Today I’m in Zurich, speaking at the Ignite business conference https://www.ignite-movement.com/conference-2018 at the University of St Gallen on the subject of purpose. Then on Friday, I’m in the southwest of England speaking at the Resilient Young Minds conference (the in-room places are sold out, but you can still get a live-stream ticket if you want to join us – book your place here https://www.tickettailor.com/events/theclayfactory/185546). I’m going to be painting a vision for the future, and I’m reminded once again that the principles Sydney Banks discovered represent a paradigm shift; a genuine revolution for the field of psychology. To get a sense of what a true paradigm shift really means, I’m reflecting on this passage from John Waller’s excellent book, The Discovery of the Germ: Twenty Years That Transformed The Way We Think About Disease.

#016 – Schizophrenia, Stress & Depression: 1 cause & 1 cure with Dr Bill Pettit – Get Clarity Podcast

Posted on November 21, 2018 by Jamie Smart

Released 21st Nov 2018 Subscribe: Spotify | iTunes | Stitcher

In this episode of the get clarity podcast, I’m going to be speaking with my friend and colleague, Dr Bill Pettit, so just a couple of things before we get to that.

You may already be aware that my team and I have been clarifying our message about who we are as a company and what we’re doing in the world. This is already having an impact on how we’re spending our time. And one of the things we’ve been looking at is the whole domain of mission, vision and purpose. There’s something my team and I passionately believe to be true, and it’s this:

We believe the most valuable thing a person can discover is the truth of who they really are.

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