Clarity from Chaos

By: Dave Campbell

  • Home
  • About
  • Podcast
  • Blog
  • Contact
  • Donate

From Smart to Wise – A Journey

By dave

Smart people impress us with their intellectual power and uncanny ability to achieve their goals. But being smart is not always sufficient to keep leaders out of trouble and sustain their success over time. In Prasad Kaipa book, “From Smart to Wise – acting and leading with wisdom”, Prasad offers a different and counter intuitive approach to leadership that goes far beyond just being smart.

Wise leaders, Prasad argues, is the cultivation of a broader experience and responding to external events with discernment, flexibility, and most importantly, authenticity.

Prasad identify six key capabilities that all leaders, both smart and wise share. They are, perspective, action orientation, role clarity, decision logic, fortitude, and motivation.

You can find more information at http://www.FromSmartToWise.com

Leave a Comment Filed Under: Purpose Tagged With: From Smart to Wise, intelligence, Prasad Kaipa, success, wisdom

Ethan Musolini Interview

By dave

Ethan Musolini is a CEO of Success Africa, a human resource development consultant and motivational speaker committed to enabling organizations and individuals maximize their potential. His commitment and passion to unlocking human potential has inspired him to publish personal development books like Confidence and Self Esteem Secrets Exposed, Get Motivated in 30 Seconds or Less, Wisdom and Success Quotes and Public Speaking Secrets Exposed. He also produced a range of educational video products on stress management, public speaking, work life balance, selling, goal setting, business and social etiquette, customer service, succeeding like crazy, attaining exceptional performance among others.
He has been a training consultant for British Council since August 2004 to date. He has successfully consulted for other organizations like Barclays Bank, Uganda Telecom, Hima cement, World Vision, MTN, UN agencies, World Bank and Stromme Foundation among others.
Since 2008, he has been writing a weekly column in Monitor Newspaper titled Succeeding whose sole purpose is to expose the potential with in all of us and how to unleash it for greatness.
Ethan has developed, facilitated and delivered trainings in 15 African countries for corporate and non-governmental sector in the areas of leadership, communication, sales, personal development, stress management, public speaking, work life balance, customer service, confidence and self esteem.

http://ethanmusolini.com/

Leave a Comment Filed Under: Reason Tagged With: Ethan Musolini, success, ubuntu philosophy

The Morality of Capitalism

By dave

This week’s guest is Dr. Yaron Brook , President and Executive Director, The Ayn Rand Institute. His newest book FREE MARKET REVOLUTION is described as A game-changing look at how our current crises are caused by too much government, and how Ayn Rand’s bold defense of free markets can help us change course

Capitalism isn’t a bad thing, and it’s time that students are taught that fact. We discuss that issue and more with Dr. Yaron Brook of the Ayn Rand Institute

Leave a Comment Filed Under: Reason Tagged With: capitalism, education, freedom, individualism, morality, selfishness, statist government, success

How One Can Easily Slip Into Negativity

By dave

It’s very easy to slip into negativity yet it’s hard to get out. For a pessimist it’s very hard to become positive; the optimist can much easier get on the road to negativity, all it takes is a little bit of ignorance.
Every day your positivity can be tested; if you allow even one time a day to be negative – to reply to someone in an angry manner, to complain about something – next day you will find it much easier to do. Within a week it would be quite normal for you to complain about what happened to you or to gossip.
It takes a long time to get into the habit of positivity. You have to uproot all the negative, inferior traits of your personality such as self pity, thinking that you are better than others, want to control others and so on. When you completely remove all the negative traits, your life starts slowly but surely changing. The money starts flowing in; you make genuine friendships; finally you are able to live the way you always wanted.
It’s easy to start taking this beautiful life manifested out of your hard work for granted. You start feeling that it will be so forever. You start getting influenced by mediocre people. You start taking on their habits of materialism, conflict, feeling that you are the right one. This change of your attitude starts destroying the foundation of your good life. Your good work is being quietly undone, but you yet not see it – the same as you didn’t see the positive outcomes when you were working on your positivity.
Next thing you know, you start experiencing difficulties in your life. Good friends leave you or change; your relationship with your loved one crumbles; Your business starts experiencing difficulties. Because you became again stuck too much into materialism, you can’t understand that these external changes are happening because of your change of character. The world doesn’t suddenly become hostile – it’s the change of your character that brings this change about.
Every negative trait you reawaken will cause some difficulty in your external circumstances. If these difficulties are met with conflict, more conflict will follow. The arrival of a difficulty is a sign to stop and reflect on your behaviour and the content of your mind. Yet most people do everything to end it by using aggression, wits or other selfish ways.
Ignorant about the real cause of these difficulties, people become more controlling in order to keep things as they were. However nothing goes how they want. This cycle can be vicious, as you may already see. It can only be stopped by setting aside some quiet time to contemplate your life and mind.
If you don’t know how to act when the difficulty presents itself, it means you shouldn’t. It means it’s time to not react, but observe. It’s time to connect to your Inner Self by being inactive and waiting for a sign. Acting out of confused, unsure mind will only produce more confusion and root you deeper into materialism.
If you still can’t get the inner guidance but you want to make positive changes now, you can do a few things. Get I-Ching; (the link to the edition I use) through this system your unconscious picks out the right spiritual advice for you. Each day you can throw three coins six times and see what the combination has to tell you. If you approach this system with open-mindedness, it can guide you very accurately through any difficulty of your life.
Start your blog and write about your feelings at this time and what happens in your life. This will help you to connect the outside experiences with your inner ones and will let you see the situation more clearly.
Remain quiet, attentive and observant. The indication of what step to take next may be very subtle.
Limit your exposure to the external world – it’s time to focus on the inner world which you might have ignored for some time. Being alone, lighting candles and using incense helps you to reconnect with your Higher Self.
Develop willpower – you will need it to get back to the positive path. Do trataka (gazing at one point as long as you can), stand in a tree posture (google “yoga tree pose”) with eyes closed for as long as you can; if your writing is illegible, write slowly and beautifully. Pray for inner strength.
When we are negative, we get on the collective negative vibe. There are more negative people (a lot more) than the positive ones, that’s why it’s so hard to stop being negative once you want this change to take place (the collective negative vibe is just too strong!).
However positivity is not out of your reach; you just need to take consistent small steps towards it: monitor yourself and weed out useless traits that root you into negativity, share with others what you have, do something good each day. Step by step you will return to your True Self – the one that is pure and good.

By Simona Rich
http://www.personal-development-coach.net/how-one-can-easily-slip-into-negativity.html

Leave a Comment Filed Under: Purpose Tagged With: Inspiration, Mind, power, Self Improvement, Spirituality, success

The Dave Campbell Show 02/06 | Blog Talk Radio

By dave

The Dave Campbell Show 02/06 by AZlipsticklady | Blog Talk Radio.

Leave a Comment Filed Under: Reason Tagged With: business, individualism, politics, success

Get the newest podcast episodes & articles delivered straight to your inbox:

Connect

  • Email
  • Facebook
  • LinkedIn
  • Twitter
  • Reason
  • Self-Esteem
  • Purpose

Copyright © 2023 · Clarity from Chaos