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TTE48 – Forgiveness, Finishing and Fifty-two

Posted on June 9, 2016 by Dzidek Sabat

Here are this week’s enthusiasms! Let me know what you think via twitter at @jamiesmartcom, on my Facebook page here, or in the comments section. At the end, I’ll tell you how you can get one of your #enthusiasms featured in a future edition of The Thursday Enthusiasms (TTE).

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JST 126 – The right direction

Posted on June 7, 2016 by Dzidek Sabat

“If you don't know where you're going…
Any road will take you there…”

George Harrison
Musician, film producer

Ten days ago, a great group of coaches, therapists, consultants and other transformation professionals from around the world joined me for the Coaching Package Power Summit. We had a wonderful weekend, and I realised that something that started as an idea and an experiment 18 months ago (called Project Glasswing) has grown into a wonderful and supportive community.

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JST 125 – The power of insight

Posted on May 31, 2016 by Dzidek Sabat

Photo courtesy of Chuck Coker and flickr

“What you’re looking for is a realisation, and the realisation is something you’ve never thought of before, and you go ‘oh’, and it comes as an insight. And it comes like a thought, and you think it’s an ordinary thought, but it’s not, because a realisation doesn’t come from anything you’ve ever learned in your life, it comes from inside.”

Sydney Banks
Author, philosopher

I’ve had a wonderful weekend with a great group of people on the Coaching Package Power Summit. There were insights a-plenty, and we also explored where insights come from; your innate capacity for insight. Certified Clarity Coach Scott James hails from Australia, and wrote an insightful article about the capacity for insight which I’d like to share with you this week. Over to you, Scott…

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JST 124 – Your ultimate leverage point

Posted on May 24, 2016 by Jamie Smart

“A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true,
for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.”

Isaac Newton
Physicist, mathematician,
key figure in the scientific revolution

I often ask my clients, “What’s the number one result you could achieve that you perceive would make the biggest difference in your life / your business / your relationships?” The answer vary from person to person, but what the person comes up with is what they perceive as their “ultimate leverage point”. In this article, we’re going to experiment with your “ultimate leverage point”, the thing that you perceive would have the biggest “return on investment” for the resources it would take you to achieve it.

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JST 123 – Your zone of genius

Posted on May 17, 2016 by Dzidek Sabat

“Everyone is born a genius but the process of living de-geniuses them.”
Buckminster Fuller
Inventor, designer, architect, visionary

This afternoon, I spoke at the 3PUK Conference in London about how the principles behind clarity have changed my work as a coach. People came up to me after the talk to say thanks, make comments and ask questions. One of the questions that I was asked was “How do you get yourself into a motivated, high-performance state?” In this article, we’re going to be exploring your zone of genius.

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The Clarity Life Transformation Retreat - Lanzarote 2016 with Jamie Smart, Chip Chipman and Jan Chipman

JST 122 – The WD40 of Influence and Impact

Posted on May 10, 2016 by Dzidek Sabat

“Everything about us – our brains, our minds and our bodies – is geared towards collaboration in social systems. This is our most powerful survival strategy, the key to our success as a species, and it is precisely this that breaks down in most forms of mental suffering."

Bessel van der Kolk
Professor of Psychiatry,
Boston University Medical School

I’m writing this in the resort where we’ve just finished the 2016 Clarity Life Transformation Retreat. The level of impact has been phenomenal, with many lives being transformed (including my own). So what creates the space for transformation? In this article, you’re going to discover the “WD40” of transformational influence and impact: clarity of connection.

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JST 121 – Your true identity

Posted on May 3, 2016 by Dzidek Sabat

“…if you’re searching for happiness… If you’re searching for tranquility…
if you’re searching just to have a nice… peaceful… loving…
understanding life… in actual fact… your searching for your inner self…”

Sydney Banks

For many years, I was a “seeker”, hooked on the morphine of self-improvement and running on the “I’ll be happy when…” hamster wheel. In 2008, I was at the end of my tether, and hired Michael Neill to coach me. Read More →

JST 120 – How to make an impact

Posted on April 26, 2016 by Dzidek Sabat

“Everyone needs a coach.”
– Bill Gates

I’m on the verge of confirming the subtitle of my new book. Once I do, I’m going to reveal the title, subtitle (and maybe even give you a glimpse of the cover). But for now, I’m going to share another excerpt from it (to be published by Wiley-Capstone, Autumn 2016). This is from a chapter called “The Principles of Impact”:

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JST 119 – The Rise of the Transformation Professional

Posted on April 19, 2016 by Dzidek Sabat

“Change is not a threat, it’s an opportunity. Survival is not the goal, transformative success is.”
Seth Godin
Author, entrepreneur, marketing philosopher

As you may know, I’ve spent much of the past five months sequestered in hotel rooms, working on my forthcoming book. It’s due for publication in September 2016, and I’ll be revealing the title very soon, but for now I’m in the final stages of “putting it to bed”. I sent the first draft to my publishers a few weeks ago, and later today I’m due to deliver the full finished manuscript. I’m spending the rest of today tuning, tweaking, polishing and generally doing my best to improve the manuscript, but I thought you might like to look at an excerpt from one of my favourite chapters. The excerpt references the chart (pictured below) which has been “cherry-picked” from a list of over 700 jobs spread across the range from low probability of computerisation to highest risk of computerisation. Here’s the excerpt from the book, due to be published by Wiley-Capstone, 2016:

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JST 118 – So what’s the point? (revisited)

Posted on April 12, 2016 by Dzidek Sabat

“You’re always living in the feeling of your thinking.”
– Keith Blevens
Clinical psychologist

I’m still in the final stages of putting my new book “to bed”, so normal service will be resumed in a couple of weeks. In the meantime, here’s an article I first ran following the release of my first book, CLARITY. It covers the answer to a question that a lot of people ask when they're introduced to my work: So what’s the point of learning about principles?

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