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So those of you that know me know that I’m a big fan of Adam Eason. His podcasts are full of interesting and entertaining information, his self-hypnosis products are excellently produced and very useful, and now he is doing a one-off Self-Hypnosis Masterclass in London on 8th & 9th September 2007. And for a knock-down price of less than £100, because it’s being filmed for DVD!

And I’m signed up and ready to go. So if you want to meet Adam and learn self-hypnosis, and even meet me, then head over to this page and follow the instructions for signing up.

Adam is the author of the book “Secrets of Self-Hypnosis - harnessing the power of your unconscious mind“, and a foremost expert on the subject. If you want to get an instruction manual for your own brain, then this might just be the event you are waiting for.

I watched the news with absolute amazement yesterday when they explained to me and countless others how cows and pigs are making global worse by virtue of the methane that they, er, trump in to the atmosphere with alarming regularity and volume.

So scientists are now experimenting with additives to cattle feed to reduce the amount of methane that these gentle creatures emit.

And I wonder how this train of thought ever began, because it seems to presume that cows are the problem, when in fact the process of developing and manufacturing the additives for cows across the planet will probably generate a far bigger carbon footprint than the cows themselves could ever possibly trump between birth and beef wellington.

And of course once tested and working on cattle, the next offender will be, that’s right, you and me. Before you know it, anti-fart additives companies are top of the FT100 and our god-given right to break wind and blame the dog will be replaced by a state-sponsored money making machine that has a carbon footprint bigger than the hole in the ozone layer.

It seems to me that us humans aren’t thinking holistically about this whole global warming thing… the trouble is, there’s money in them farting cows and screw the fact that the net carbon footprint grows, as long as someone can buy a nice new 4×4 as a result.

So I wonder what hair-brained eco moneymaker will next hit the headlines… dragonfly powered micro-windmills or the use of the human body as a battery to power a big virtual reality machine… they both rate the same level of craziness as addressing the farting cow problem.

In preparation for tomorrow’s post, I read through my page “What is NLP” and decided that it was utter nonsense.

“No more than the rest of the site!” I hear you cry.

Here hear!

Anyhow I’ve completely rewritten the page, it is now shorter, more personal, and less rubbish. I hope you like.

Building an effective team is tough… it would be a lot simpler if people weren’t so darn complicated! Patrick Lencioni provides some useful insight in to the causes of team dysfunction in his leadership fable The Five Dysfunctions Of A Team.

Rather than tell the reader the solution in a textbook manner, Lencioni frames his model for team performance within a short story. Here, we encounter a Silicon Valley organisation in the last throes of life. Previously a vibrant and growing organisation, they have fallen behind their competitors and the exec team are only that in name.

Enter Kathryn, newly appointed CEO and experienced leader, who sets about bringing the execs together in to a coherent team that return the organisation to its former power, and take it onward. (more…)