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A Better Entrepreneur | Nicola Cairncross - Meditation For Business

07/31/19 • 11 min

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Five years ago I would have laughed if you had suggested meditation could help my business but I've gradually become a convert. This week I share my journey and recommend some specific guided meditations that help me enormously. As I did my 10 minute meditation this morning, Bitcoin went up so I got out of a trade in profit and a new client enquiry came in. Make of that what you will!  Clicks And Leads is a "tongue in cheek" digital marketing Vzine by entrepreneur, author, podcaster, speaker, Nicola Cairncross. On the blog Resistance Visualisation What Does Success Mean To You What To Do With Your Goals Beating Resistance - Tip 1 Beating Resistance - Tip 2 What You Focus On Increases What It's Really Like To Live & Work Abroad Dust and Doldrums Prefer to read? Hi everyone, it's Nicola here and all the stars have aligned for me to be able to talk to you this week. Basically the camera's charged up, my fringe isn't looking too bad. I've got something to say, which is always a plus. It's a not very sunny day in Stoupa today, which means that it's quite quiet around here. Everyone's, I don't know, off doing excursions I expect. 'Cause they can't all go down the beach. You can probably hear the cicadas in the background. They never shut up, once it gets to a certain temperature. Anyway, no water, that's the thing. But it doesn't stop me. I've got internet intermittently, but no water today because they're probably trying to conserve it 'til everyone comes home wanting a shower later on. Anyway, these are the things that are sent to try us. Living and working abroad. I like it anyway. Let's get on with the show, shall we? So this week I want to talk to you about the power of meditation. Now if you'd have said to me, even four of five years ago, that I'd be meditating regularly, I would have laughed at you. Because I'm not that kind of person. I thought it was a little bit wooley and waffley and yes, it probably made you feel a bit better. A bit rested perhaps, especially if you fell asleep. But I didn't really see what the point of it was. I tried it a few times, quite pleasant. Didn't really do anything. Then I started seeing all these scientific reports that actually prove the power of meditation. I'm nothing if not swayed by a bit of scientific proof. So I started to use meditation myself. I started with a bit of Paul McKenna. Like his voice. He's got some really nice guided meditations I really enjoyed. Yes, it was perfectly pleasant and I suspected it was doing me some good, in my brain somewhere that I couldn't tell the effects of. Yeah so then what happened, then Steve died and I was looking for anything to make myself feel better. Even temporarily. I started listening to a Mind Value Meditation, by Vishen Lakhiani, called The 6 Phase Meditation. I really enjoyed that. It was really positive visualisation. It enabled me to start thinking about what life would be like once I got over the grieving period and what I wanted my life to be looking like later on. One of the things about grieving is you think you're never going to come out of it and having a lifeline to cling on to, by power of guided meditation, about what I wanted my life to be like in the future. It really was a lifeline. It really did help and it actually made me feel better in the moment as well and the days I meditated, I felt better. Especially if I did it in the morning. 'Cause I was less likely to fall asleep then. Then I definitely felt stronger, more calm, more uplifted, more able to cope. So I've done that for now, well it must be three years, two and a half years anyway. Recently, Judith has introduced me to something a little bit wacky but I would like to recommend it to you, because it's non-denominational. She doesn't talk about religion as such. It talks about the power of the universe. I'm perfectly able to cope with that, even as a staunch atheist that I am.

07/31/19 • 11 min

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