Blue Wolf Reviews

Tag: positive

  • Mastering the Art of Reinvention

    Mastering the Art of Reinvention

    Adapting to life, AI and other big changes

    Change is the only constant in this life, but it is the one certainly, other than death, that we as humans struggle to cope with, frequently placing huge levels of stress or distress upon ourselves and others as we go through the process of change.

    Gary Waldon is a man who has faced change in his life many, many times having worked in 43 different jobs, been broke, downhearted, elated and flush with funds more than once. He has faced change on a regular basis and learned that no matter what, change will occur and by doing so life is richer, wisdom is gained and lessons learned.

    In Mastering the Art of Reinvention he shares his hard-earned philosophies of life, tips that have helped him through the dark days and in doing so reaches out to everyone who is struggling to cope with the rapidity of change in the world of today.

    He addresses the issue of AI or Artificial Intelligence, or the elephant in the room, in a very grounded chapter, as he considers it vital to understand even if only a little the impact this will have on our lives.

    AI is considered the fastest generational change to occur and the one that is going to have and is already having, a massive impact on how we live our lives. It is fast, profound, far reaching and still in its infancy. Waldon considers we are at a turning point in history that will require a serious rethink- a pressing of the reset button – reinvention.

    To this end he uses his life journey along with familiar events to illustrate that change need not be feared that reinvention is something everyone is very good at achieving and with a little bit of hard reflection, a good understanding of who you are and what you wish to achieve, reinvention or change is able to be embraced.

    Written in a very comfortable manner that has ‘bloke’ appeal, he tells it like it is, talking openly about the grieving that is a part of reinvention; the wish to return to a comfortable place in your life where you felt certain of the outcomes, the struggle that often takes place to let go of the old and embrace the new and so many more ‘lifeisms’ faced during the course of life.

    Mastering the Art of Reinvention is a game changer as Waldon is not telling you everything will be wonderful, it won’t be but is offering a fresh perspective on how to survive the ups and downs of life without getting lost and being able to recognise the next brilliant opportunity when it arrives in your life.

  • Unhindered. The Seven Essential Practices for Overcoming Insecurity

    Unhindered. The Seven Essential Practices for Overcoming Insecurity

    Insecurity is the one thing that pits its strength against you; it is also a very good emotion at hiding itself away, often camouflaging itself as something else entirely, with the main purpose of making life difficult, all the while allowing you to think you are wining, but working on undermining you.

    It can also be considered as fear, a word that is far easier to relate to, but also one that is seldom really acknowledged when looking at the deeper emotions that are accumulated in people’s lives, and seldom considered as the real reason that perhaps helped failure to secure the dream job; that much wanted and desired promotion or has in extreme and often not so extreme cases, resulted in on-going ill health.

    Jaemin Frazer, considered as one of the prominent life coaches in Australia, has spent the past 10 years, using his words, in ‘the pursuit of solving the insecurity problem’ to the point of obsession, which has resulted in Unhindered. The Seven Essential Practices for Overcoming Insecurity the well set out, clearly explained rationale behind insecurity; facing the fear that comes with it and how to understand, recognising and master this somewhat debilitating emotion.

    Frazer advocates that by bringing insecurity out into the light and subjecting it to rigorous scrutiny, creates the beginning of being able to banish it for good, or at the least understanding the debilitating effect insecurity has, and best how to it can be managed.

    There are 7 essential practices to seeking out and destroying fear and the resultant insecurity which once accepted will allow you to be the best, without limits and successful at whatever it is you considered is your chosen goal.

    The Introduction begins with two of his favourite coaching questions, which both need honest answers; if these resonate with you he says magic happens once you allow them to help you discover the problem and then allow this simple step to chart the pathway to fixing that which is wrong.

    As you are reading through his discoveries and solutions formed over the past 10 years he requests, in the nicest possible way, to be brutally honest with yourself, to accept that this is you he is talking about, not some other person; to accept that facing your fears is not easy, but like many things that are cathartic, the end result is worth holding the line to achieve.

    Unhindered. The Seven Essential Practices for Overcoming Insecurity could be your pathway into 2021, setting you free to take up whatever challenge you desire, but being able to recognise and handle the insecurity that will always be a part of the process with flair and aplomb!

     

  • The Simple Shift: How Useful Thinking Changes the Way You See Everything

    The Simple Shift: How Useful Thinking Changes the Way You See Everything

    Chris Helder is the Master of creating small books packed full of incredibly useful information which can be read preferably over a few hours, or several days. With his latest book The Simple Shift he looks at the madness in which we conduct our daily lives.

    This book was written before COVID-19 arrived, which in itself created much change, with many people being forced to take a fresh look at what drives their daily existence and their changing world in which they may, or may not, be able to hold down paid work. Life changed rapidly and is still changing, but the essence of Helder’s book still holds true, because the basis is helping people ‘through significant adversity in their lives’ and negotiating the craziness of everyday life, before or after COVID-19.

    As a sought after keynote speaker, Chris Helder has traveled the world speaking on useful beliefs; simple shifts on thinking and lifestyle and the power of ‘useful’, which is vastly different to ‘positive’, thinking, the power of understanding that right now is the ‘ greatest time in the history of the world to be alive’.

    This can be greeted with skepticism, but when seriously pondered, Helder is right, despite what is delivered daily via new sources and media hectoring. Why, because as he explains, in the course of The Simple Shift, if you choose to believe something you can find plenty of evidence to support those beliefs, whether they be positive or negative.

    As he says on later in the book: ‘Whenever something significant happens in your life, ask yourself two simple questions: why did this happen? What have I learned from it?  Then take those messages or answers and make them work for you.

    2020 is proving to be a year of massive change on many fronts, a year that will be long remembered as a watershed year for many reasons; many would agree that times are tough and going to get tougher if the governments of the world are to be believed, therefore it follows a change in thinking is required, a change of direction is necessary; that looking at the vast territory that is encompassed with ‘useful beliefs’ is something we are all going to need to undertake in this rapidly changing world.

    Helder could not have anticipated the changing societal framework of 2020 when he wrote The Simple Shift, but it is definitely a small book with a powerful message for and of our times, that should be used and read as a guide book to striding forward in a positive manner into the very different, ever changing future.