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If you follow the link you find my essay on Personal Development - Island Theory.
I wrote about it in my blog before.
- 6th of March about Islands
- 22nd of March about Islands
- 27th of March, the story of the Prince and the Magician
Please leave comments and feedback, I am looking forward to a great discussion.
Volker Ballueder
I finally put my first article on the website:
You find it on www.cb-consulting.co.uk, Volker’s Blurb - I aim to publish another article shortly on my favourite topic of “Islands”.
Please read it and give me feedback. The article was written during my MBA studies.
Thanks
Volker
I want to share some insights into my essay with you this morning:
Newton’s 3rd law of motions states that “For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.”
If that is true for all mechanical forces then it should be true for all spiritual forces as well, for all thoughts.
But, Newton’s law can also be applied to another thought, the thought of us giving to other people. “What comes around goes around” is an old saying. If in business I am good to my partner and my employees, they will be good to me.
As an example, if I deliver a bad service/product then people are not very happy about what I can offer them. They create negative energy towards my company. However, if I create a positive product and people like it, they will send me positive energy. This positive energy then continues throughout the company and results in the company getting stronger, whilst on the other hand negative energy will ultimately destroy the company.
However, one might argue that for sure any corporation that creates a bad product will ultimately be destroyed because people would not buy from it. There is a point but how often have you gone into a company or into a shop and noticed that you are not overly happy here and do not really feel like supporting this very business by buying here? Was there not “something in the air” that gave you a sign that something is not right.
So, assumption 10 clients produce positive energy towards a company, the company has to make up this positive energy with positive energy, to stay within the principles of all sums of the forces acting on one body, here the company, are zero. So, this strengthens the company and will ultimately go in circles until the company really prospers.
Would that not mean that the company grows and grows?
Yes, however nothing is perfect and therefore we cannot exclude minor mistakes that might create some negative energy that has be compensated for with positive energy. But yes, ultimately, the company should prosper.
Have a good Sunday.
Volker Ballueder
www.cb-consulting.co.uk
If you believe that I will actually read all books I get straight away, then think again. I keep building up a library of books and my wife is complaining already! Often I read chapters at a time.
So, my newest acquisition is “Mindfulness and Money - a Buddhist path of abundance” -I am so excited to dig into that book.
I hope it will help me to write a bit more on my essay as it picks up the link between Buddhism and making money in a good, spiritual way - perfect literature I thought. Also, it talks about everyone wants money making us feel complete but it does not. Nothing would make us feel complete they argue. The incompleteness is part of the path, part of life.
They say the path is formed of 5 precepts: kindness, generosity, contentment, honesty, and awareness. And, applying this, we earn and spend creatively, a key to living peacefully with money!
How exciting that is. Need to find time this weekend to read some of the book at least. What outcome would I expect. Just to see myself more complete, e.g. is not everyone seeking for happiness and thinking ‘if I had a billion pounds then I would be happy’ - wouldn’t life be too easy then.
Stay tuned!
Reading an interesting article about Google, I came across the following line of “sustainable business” as I would call it:
“In five ways should workers and servants as the lower direction be respected by an employer: by allocating work according to aptitude, providing wages and food, looking after the sick, sharing special treats, and giving reasonable time off work.” - The Buddha
That is what I think is work in a respectful way all about:
- do not overload your employees with too much work
- give them the right pay
- care for them when they are sick
- if you get rewarded, share it amongst all
- have a good entitlement of holidays
Bearing all that in mind it is important to look after your employees. It starts with little everyday things to make people comfortable at work, not to shout at them, offering them help and be a true team player - latter one, although often praised in organisations, turns out to be a “I show the team that I am better than them” which has nothing to do with team playing.
So, can we use the Buddha teaching or any other religious teaching to create an organisation that functions better than any other by applying principles like the one above?
I wrote about Alan Alda before. He is the actor of “Captain Hawkeye Pierce in M*A*S*H” and just published his second book “Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself”.
When I started it this morning, a cold December day just before Christmas, I read the speech he gave for his daughter Eve on her graduation day. He finished with the words “Simply Love them, Love them, Love them” talking about our children.
For him, meaning in life and having children is more or less the same. There is not much more love you can give anyone else, maybe your wife, your parents, but the most love you most probably ever give to anyone would be your children. You want them to do well, you want them to do well for themselves.
And, if our meaning in life is loving our children and spread the love amongst other people, whilst writing this I am reminded of the Woodstock Hippy Festival 1969, then if we love we create a meaningful life.
What means that? It simply means that if we pass on the love to others, if we create a positive and “lovely” imprint in the greater subconscious out there, then we will get it back and receive a meaningful life.
Isn’t that what Christmas is all about?
Merry Christmas!
Hello,
Not that I think it gets boring to write about the Diamond Cutter but I wanted to write about Gratitude today.
Jackie Headland’s newsletter triggered it. Gratitude, Thankfulness or Appreciation is a positive emotion. Jackie writes about the expanding your awareness with an attitude of gratitude and that it gives us power, perspective, appreciation, humour, optimism and hope. It opens up the good values in our life….heard that before?
Exactly. Have a positive attitude towards all living beings. Be thankful for being on this earth, being healthy and appreciative of what you are and what you have. Do not be greedy or envy others. Remember, if you envy others you might create a negative imprint.
And, if you create positive imprints you expand your awareness. You will gain power, perspective and appreciation. Humour of course, or have you ever seen a Buddhist not being happy ,-) OK, maybe that takes it too far.
Open up your good values in life, connect to the universe and have an attitude of gratitude. Then you will create positive imprints that come back to you - in a positive way.
Sleep well tonight, tomorrow might be your chance to change your attitude and make a difference.
This problem is quite interesting in a broader context:
“I cannot find a building to put a new branch location in.” - I just found an office for my new work, so I thought to drill on that as we would eventually need a bigger place.
The suggested solution by the Diamond Cutter is to make sure you help others find places to stay when they need them. That simple?
Sure, if you help and do place a small imprint in the subconscious, it grows there over time, and then it comes up to the conscious mind to make you see a corresponding lack of needed space.
I find this thought very fascinating. Whatever you plan to do you do create it for others first. If I look through essays today for a friend then, if I need help, even in 50 years time, this person or someone else would be happily help me. It is this principle of “what comes around goes around” - if you help your neighbour, they help you.
From a critical point of view I sometimes think it is all about “be good” otherwise you are bad. But, if there is a great universal subconscious out there which has all our thoughts floating about (simplified after Jung) then maybe by creating positive imprints we will reach out for the positive ones to come back to us.
For instance, we do have very noisy neighbours. What should we do? We did talk to them friendly but no change. We talked to them again - we try to be as positive as possible to help them to understand that noise in a block of flats is not acceptable. I truly hope they understood because the next steps would be more negative, e.g. getting the management of the building involved and possibly the police. Neither I nor anyone involved wants to but it might be the only way to do it. Would that create a negative imprint if one is forced to act like it?
Another thought on this is, should I be happy for them to be noisy at 3 am in the morning? I am really not sure.
Have a great week!
Looking further into my essay I saw Tolle’s book “The Power of Now” which does cover the topic of focusing on the now, the actual day, “carpe diem” so to speak, instead of focusing on either past or future.
Many many people seem to use the past as an excuse for what is happening in the now and excusing themselves about things that might happen in the future.
Without going into much detail it seems that we can only enlighten ourselves if we do focus on what is happening just precise this moment. This very second or Milli-second. Why bother about what has happened. Too many theories in my opinion focus on the idea of the past influencing our lives - time line therapy to cure what has happened? I used to live in the past quite a lot myself and found my personal way of living in the now.
However, looking at myself, I live in the future too. Aspirations, goals, wants and needs. Salary expectations, new job and family - often I think “what if I reached my dream income of lets say 100K?” - to be honest, if I ever achieve it, then I would want 200K and so forth. Death is definite, it puts an end to it all, doesn’t it? Maybe it doesn’t but then we move away from the now. We talk about that another time.
But yes, if we stop worrying about what might be and what we achieve and what might happen, we might start living in the now and focus on what is important at the moment. Because only that counts and really works in favour or disadvantage of the future. But please do not forget to think about the future, set goals etc. - but do not be too fixed with it and do not let them influence your now.
And, if you have issues from your past that influence your now, then let it go, use therapy and live your life - I had almost written “as if it would be your last day”. Not sure, maybe we should but do not exaggerate. There might be a tomorrow ,-)
Good night.
I decided that I might start an essay and thought of an outline of the whole - below the synopsis, the summary of what the essay might contain.
This essay will deal with a theory that everything one does in his/her life will have an effect on one’s life.
While this is a bold statement, there is more to it than just coming up with a basic idea but also to develop a model, bringing several theories together.
After a short introduction of the thesis and the assumptions that have to be made in order to make sense of the analogy and model, there will be an introduction of the underlying theories. Those are foremost Buddhist principles; using those principles and the understanding of Buddhism and the effects of imprints, one uses Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) to actually effectively model those principles to use them in a business context. The basic mechanical equations used to undermine the model are also introduced.
The thesis will then be outlined and with a combination of the above principles, new ideas and models will be formed to show how “business and spirituality” can work together in a profitable way. Limitations will be shown and the use of creativity to possibly better understand the model or even show a deeper understanding of using the thesis in a daily sense.
In the end there will be a conclusion of the application of the model and the way it will be possible to apply them in business; also a discussion will show how helpful the model really is and if anyone would be able to use it.
In order to understand the theory the reader is not obliged to be a believer in Buddhism nor have a deeper understanding of either Buddhism or NLP. However, a certain open mindedness for both ideas will be helpful to understand the thesis and apply it to business and maybe other “every day life” situations.
Without going into detail about other religions there is a chance that the discussed Buddhist principles are common in other religions. Buddhism is used as an example because the author was firstly introduced to the principles in this culture. None of this essay is in any way meant to be discriminated against any religion or belief.
After the last entry I was wondering if anyone reading my blog has had some experience in the energy field and if someone would be able to help me getting a sensible outline for an essay.
Although I am not sure whether I will have time to write an essay on it, it might be worthwhile starting one and publishing abstracts here.
A friend said he tried modelling an energy system based on Buddhist and non-Buddhist thoughts but with little success. However, I was wondering if one could simplify a model and outline an essay as follows:
- energy systems in general
- including influences like e.g. Hellinger, family constellation, history in general terms
- Buddhist and other religious influential thoughts
- Emotional Intelligence
- developing a “basic model” for small groups
- extending that model to business / work environments
- finding a model that can easily be implemented to a SME or team of max. 30
- Conclusion if applicable / field test
I am curious to hear your opinions.
ballueder
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