Brendan Foley's 'meaningful' success blog

“A lovely clear energy, uncluttered and to the point…

That’s how the new website for Seachange Now has been described. You should check it out! www.seachangenow.ie

As you know brendanfoley.net is a great resource for your personal development and for informed comment on our times. Seachange Now also has  super blog but more pointed towards the business community to help them to bring inspiration to life through commerce. As well as the blog we have a great ezine that goes out each quarter with helpful tips and techniques to help you on way to success and happiness. Make sure to sign up.

Seachange Now is a company dedicated to inspiration, leadership and transformation.

Again check out the site and please share with your friends – Kindest personal regards, Brendan.

www.seachangenow.ie

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Please place a reminder in your calender or diary to purchase a copy of the book between the 3rd -10th of September as 100% of author royalties in this period are going to famine relief in Somalia, East Africa. And a big MEGA please to SHARE this with your friends, family and colleagues.

See more at www.the5statesofsuccess.com

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Here are 10 videos that will make you feel positive, optimistic and help you to create meaningful success in your career, your business or your life. Scroll down to the bottom of the page to view as one video (26min) or see clip by clip below! This has already been described by a HR and Training expert as the best training she ever did!!!

Enjoy and please share – this stuff can really make a difference…

Intro to the 10 Principles of Positivity

Principle No. 1 – Breath

Principle No. 2 – In the now

Principle No. 3 – List

Principle No. 4 – Love

Principle No. 5 – Fuel

Principle No. 6 – Radar

Principle No. 7 – Admire

Principle No. 8 – Mantra

Principle No. 9 – Empower

Principle No. 10 – Smile

Conclusion and summary

ALL IN ONE – WHOLE VIDEO

PLEASE SHARE! and if you would like to conduct this session for your team or business, or as motivational session, after dinner talk…. please contact me on +353 (0)87 6292324.

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Today I was asked by three different clients “what should I read, to help my self development/business?”.

So in response I have created what I’m calling my top 10 ‘must haves’ as part of any self development collection. All these books are available on Amazon or in most book stores.

In no particular order;

1. Synchrodestiny by Deepak Chopra

2. The Tipping Point and Blink by Malcolm Gladwell (two separate books)

3. You Can Heal Your Life by Louise L Hay

4. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey

5. Feel the Fear and Do it Anyway by Susan Jeffers

6. My Stroke of Insight by Dr Gill Bolte Taylor (also check her out on TED tv)

7. SPIN Selling by Neil Rackham

8. Awaken the Giant Within by Tony Robbins

9. The Monk who Sold his Ferrari by Robin Scharma

10. Born To Win by John Bertrand

I won’t be as vain as to include The Yin Yang Complex and The 5 States of Success by Brendan Foley but you might consider them for your library!!

Have you got a book that you feel should be on the top 10 ‘Must Haves’ for success and personal development? If so please leave a comment on this post so that others can benefit from your knowledge.

As always please share this post – it’s passing positive karma forward !!! Have  great day, Brendan.

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What is meaningful success and how do you create it in you life, career and business. Here are the answers.

What is meaningful success? from Brendan Foley on Vimeo.

PLEASE SHARE! THIS CLIP CAN REALLY HELP YOU BUT MAY HELP SOMEONE YOU KNOW EVEN MORE. IT’S JUST 1 CLICK! Thanks I really appreciate and am grateful for your support.

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It is estimated that homo sapiens is about 200,000 years old. When you read that statement it is interesting but not really relevant to most of us. That is until you realize that YOU are homo sapiens!

And why is this of interest to us?

Anytime you doubt yourself, any time you believe that you are not good enough, not capable, that you can’t make it, remember that your genes are the product of 200,000 years of success. That success is embedded in you. For your ancestors to pass on their genes to you they will have overcome; famine, war, disease, political upheaval, natural disasters, wild animals, droughts and many more disasters of epic proportions.

So next time you have a bad day at the office, put it into perspective and think of the 200,000 years of success gone into making you great!

IF YOU LIKE IT, RECOMMEND IT! AND PLEASE CLICK “LIKE” ABOVE TO SUPPORT THE BLOG  - THANKS BRENDAN

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The recent leaders debate on RTE television was laughable not just for the twitterisation of complex arguments condensed into 30 second soundbites, but for the uniform way the candidates were dressed!

Each man with the exception of green party leader John Gormley wore a red tie. The reason for this is that people like myself have been saying for years that red is a colour that inspires confidence, success and is competitive. A colour you would think that would perfect for a candidates debate. Unfortunately all were reading the same book and what happened was that the ‘red ties’ all appeared as contriving to create an air of confidence.

The edge had turned into uniformity. Maybe it’s time that we all looked at ourselves and wore and spoke as a reflection of how we genuinely feel rather than putting a spin on ourselves. People buy packaging but stay loyal to a brand down to the product itself.

So ask yourself are you more packaging than product?

IF YOU LIKE PLEASE SHARE IT! THANKS.

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Dublin Book Festival
Friday 4th March 2010 – 11.15: “Up for Discussion”
Main Stage, City Hall, Dame Street, Dublin

Your Career and Personal Finances: Getting Back on Track Colm Rapple, Brendan Foley, Jane Downes

Come and join us!

Biographies;

COLM RAPPLE’S personal finance guide Family Finance has been an annual best seller since first published in 1977. He is a journalist by profession having been at various times in his career business editor of The Irish Independent, The Sunday Independent and The Irish Press Group. He writes on economic and personal finance topics in The Irish Mail on Sunday, The Irish Daily Mail and The Irish Examiner.

BRENDAN FOLEY is a life and business coach who, through his company Seachange Training, has worked with 1,000’s of people and 100’s of companies in Ireland and the UK to help them create meaningful success. He is the author of the Yin Yang Complex (Mercier Press) and his forthcoming book, The 5 States of Success; Tools for Meaningful Success in your Career, Business and Life launches in July 2011 (Mercier Press).

JANE DOWNES is one of Irelands best known Career Coaches and author of, The Career Book– Help for the Restless Realist. She owns Clearview Coaching Group, a Career Coaching and Training business, which she established in 2004 following an extensive career working in the area of recruitment and HR consulting. In addition, Jane regularly writes for the national press and is invited to speak on national radio. Jane held the position of weekly Career Expert in 2010 on TV3’s The Morning Show.

For more see

http://www.dublinbookfestival.com

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Simon O’Connor (www.simplesimon.ie) my wonderfully talented designer and I would like your help. Please have a look at the 2 rough images below and please post whether you would be more inclined to buy A or B? This will help us with the creative direction on my new book The 5 States of Success.

Cover ‘A’

Cover ‘B’

Thanks, your comments and help are really appreciated.

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If life was an experiment there would be no success and no failure, just learnings. When an experiment is conducted, is there a right or wrong outcome? Of course not. There simply is the outcome. And from this outcome we learn. Do you beat yourself up over the things you perceive you fail at? Do you go on ego trips when you create what you see as success? If so you are like most people and that’s not a bad thing because it is what it is. But what might happen if you could let go of the concept of success and failure and instead learn from each experience in life?

What it would mean is that rather than continually judging ourselves we could move beyond success and failure and the roller coaster of highs and lows. Instead we could embrace each experience without fear, knowing that whatever happens that we will learn and grow from the outcome. This will free us to be innovative, loving, instinctive, vibrant and to live a life of continuous growth and fulfillment.

Thomas Edison the inventor of the life bulb was supposed to have ‘failed’ over 3,000 times before he got the formula right to create the light bulb. If he deemed each experiment as a failure he would surely have given up. Instead he saw each experiment as a step that took him closer to understanding what would make it work.

So the next time you find yourself thinking in terms of success or failure; reframe it. Think learning and growth and you will reap great rewards. This is the type of thinking that ultimately creates ‘meaningful’ success (success that is defined by growth and richness of experience). Try it today!

Please share it if you like it!!! Thanks Brendan.

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In my experience coaching 100’s of people I have found that quite often clients will say “I used be so forceful and now I am so empathic, almost too much so…” or “I was very thoughtful and caring about people but now I find after coaching I am very driven and assertive”. These statements point to the phenomenon of the ‘pendulum effect’.

Quite often when people make major behavioral adjustments they over compensate for the change they are making and a dominant person can be too accepting or a social person too introverted and so on. This is not a bad thing as long as you find your way back to the centre. The centre point of the pendulum’s swing only makes sense once the extremes on both sides have been visited. Pushing your behviour on each side of the pendulum is a great thing as you create real awareness of the extremes of your behavior, in doing this it allows you to find your ‘middle ground’ and success.

Think about it like learning to drive. When you first steer a car you understeer and then oversteer, taking corners too sharply or too wide. After time you get a feel for the right line and you drive smooth and easy. The concept of Yin and Yang is the same – find balance. My new book the 5 States of Success also talks at length about achieving this balance.

So my advice is to be brave, experience the pendulum effect, understeer and oversteer and find the middle ground the centre point that works best for you.

PS If you like it, share it! (it makes it all worthwhile then!!! )))) Also a big please, please, please for some FB “LIKE” on www.facebook.com/brendanfoley.net and tell your friends. It’s where details of FREE iPhone app, review copies of book and CDs happen as well as updates and posts.

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I was asked a whopper of a question last night – Do you still believe in all this (Yin/Yang)? I was intrigued as to why the question was asked and on reflection I could see that the question was prompted by that person themselves reflecting the feeling of the masses; everything they used to believe in has crumbled; religion, government, the stock-market…

In these times of change what is great is that universal patterns such as the balance of masculine and feminine, polarity and the eternal dance of + and – don’t change. They are every present and in fact can give us a sense of consistency when the organs of state, church and finance collapse. Especially when they collapse because of imbalance! It is like the spinning of the world, we can’t feel it but it is ever present, consistency beneath a surface that is ever-changing. So do I still believe? No, because yin and yang, inward and outward, masculine and feminine are not a BELIEF they are FACT. And because they are ever present they are unnoticed and subtle, yet in understanding their unchanging nature we can understand change itself. This allows us to embrace the changes happening in the world and our lives and that is not a bad thing.

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