VOLUME XIV ISSUE NO. 12 | December 2022 |
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"Productive insight; clear (often sudden) understanding of a complex situation." Free Dictionary
Pop the bubble of conditioned thinking and emerge into the creative realm of "no absolutes," continuous change, uncertainty and unlimited possibilities.
Then, there can be innovation, adaptation and optimal performance.
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Performance and Open-minded Mindfulness |
Open-minded: questioning everything, accepting diversity and uncertainty.
Mindful: consciously aware; concentrated.
Foundation for blending process, project, engagement and knowledge management into a cohesive approach to optimize performance.
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Who Will You Be in 2023?
By George Pitagorsky
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The Western calendar New Year is upon us. It is a good time to step back and reflect: Are you content, and living optimally? What obstacles get in the way?
The single most effective way to cut through the obstacles to living as best as you can is to reflect on the way you see yourself, to be self-aware. With a clear sense of who you are, you are in the best position to move forward.
Self-reflection seeks to identify and observe all your personas, including both the one that is identifying and observing the others, and the one observing that one.
Knowing and accepting who you are, you can relax. Relaxed, you are ready to act skillfully.
Personas
Personas are roles we play. And we have many of them - parent, coworker, partner, political activists, couch potatoes, courageous warriors, anxious, angry, and depressed.
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Self-Aware Living - Mindfulness, Meditation, Self-Awareness
We provide online courses, workshops, podcasts and other web content to individuals, organizations, and consultants with a focus on mindfulness, self-awareness, and process thinking. Our content is based on George Pitagorsky's personal...
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self-awareliving.com
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One of your personas, might be afraid, thinking "if every persona is a role and not me, there will be nothing left of me? Who will I be?" That fear is imprisoning. Experiencing that one as just another persona and not you, and you can be free. Identify and cling to an image of who you think you are and there is unnecessary pain and suffering. You waste your energy holding onto a false self-image.
Surrender to the inquiry "Who am I?" to realize that you are a process displaying itself in the drama of your life. You are all your roles and none of them.
Who Are You?
Let go and become comfortable in the awareness of the sense of no solid self. Fully engaged, calmly observing, and accepting things as they are, as actor and audience in the play of your life, you can live as best as possible. You can respond and change the things you can change without being reactive.
If you are ready for transformation, seed the question, "Who am I? Who's asking?" Let go of trying to figure it out to get a logical answer. Become a peaceful warrior. Cut through the fear of being nobody, like a hot knife through butter.
Accept things as they are. Let go. Respond skillfully. Accept some more. Continue.
Happy New Year and all years to come!
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Emotional Support for Ukraine
To support people experiencing the horrors taking place in Ukraine, we have published and wish to distribute freely
"How to Manage Difficult Emotions and How to Support Others"
in English and Ukrainian. Please pass the toolkit on to anyone who can benefit from it or can distribute it further.
Emotional Support for Ukraine is a small ad hoc group of coaches seeking to help relieve the suffering of those under fire, refugees, and helpers across the world.
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How to be Happy Even When You Are Sad, Mad or Scared:
How to be happy...How to be Happy Even When You Are Sad, Mad or Scared is available on Amazon.com. It is a book for children of all ages (including those in adult bodies). Buy it for the children in your life so they can be better able to “feel and deal” - feel and accept their emotions and deal with them in a way that avoids being driven by them. You can order the book at https://www.amazon.com/How-Happy-Even-When-Scared/dp/1072233363
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Performance and Open-minded Mindfulness |
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Open-minded: questioning everything, accepting diversity and uncertainty.
Mindful: consciously aware; concentrated.
Foundation for blending process, project, engagement and knowledge management into a cohesive approach to optimize performance.
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By George Pitagorsky
Success is measured in how well and how regularly you meet expectations. But what exactly are expectations, and how do you effectively manage them when multiple priorities and personalities are involved?
Using the case study of a Project Manager coordinating an organizational transition, this Managing Expectations book explores how to apply a mindful, compassionate, and practical approach to satisfying expectations in any situation. George Pitagorsky describes how to make sure expectations are rational, mutually understood, and accepted by all those with a stake in the project. This process relies on blending a crisp analytical approach with the interpersonal skills needed to negotiate win-win understandings of what is supposed to be delivered, by when, for how much, by who, and under what conditions.
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Managing Conflict in Projects
By George Pitagorsky
Managing Conflict in Projects: Applying Mindfulness and Analysis for Optimal Results by George Pitagorsky charts a course for identifying and dealing with conflict in a project context.
Pitagorsky states up front that conflict management is not a cookbook solution to disagreement-a set of prescribed actions to be applied in all situations. His overall approach seeks to balance two aspects of conflict management: analysis based on a codified process and people-centered behavioral skills.
The book differentiates conflict resolution and conflict management. Management goes beyond resolution to include relationship building that may serve to avoid conflict or facilitate resolution if it occurs.
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The Zen Approach to Project Management
By George Pitagorsky
Projects are often more complex and stressful than they need to be. Far too many of them fail to meet expectations. There are far too many conflicts. There are too few moments of joy and too much anxiety. But there is hope. It is possible to remove the unnecessary stress and complexity. This book is about how to do just that. It links the essential principles and techniques of managing projects to a "wisdom" approach for working with complex, people-based activities.
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