A Blog about the Human Brain

It doesn’t take swinging from a trapeze or jumping off a cliff to make transformational leaps in your life. You have opportunities to make transformational leaps every second of the day – every day. In the in8model® I suggest that there are four essential life principles which help to align your perspective and inspire profound transformation. Today we will visit the first one being, the ability to trust the order in everything. It’s a tricky one, isn’t it? With such…

Many people speak of the importance of certainty. They say that to succeed you must be rock sold and certain in your position. They say that you must resolutely ‘hold the line’. I disagree. I suggest that growth happens when we surrender to the uncertainty that lies just beyond the known and familiar. The certainty trap is a state of holding on tightly to the trapeze bar in the metaphor that we spoke of previously. This is a state in…

Life can feel like a series of high wire trapeze swings. Imagine yourself either hanging on to a trapeze bar swinging along or, for a few moments at a time hurtling through space in between the trapeze bars. Most of the time we are tightly hanging on to our trapeze-bar-of-the-moment. These are the behaviour that you call ‘me’. This is your identity. It carries you along at a certain steady rate of swing and you have the feeling that you’re…

It is undeniable that we are engulfed in a rapidly changing world, both local and global. The world is changing and like it or not you are a part of it. At any point of your journey it is useful to reflect on where you are, where you have been and where you wish to be. Are you where you want to be? Is your life where you want it to be? Are your relationships where you would like them…