Neil Wilkins Podcast

Imagine if your business could be rewarded for working to a higher purpose, delivering unprecedented value to stakeholders, whilst you all doing things you love, that you're great at and that the world needs.  This is your Business IKIGAI and Neil Wilkins explains the first steps you can take to find it.  This podcast is also available on video .

Today is unique and perhaps a little more unique than every other day (which of course are also unique). It's 22022022, 22nd February 2022, a palindrome and an ambigram, at the same time. The date reads the same, left to right as right to left, as upside down. So what does that tell us? Well perhaps it reminds us that together, we can give momentum and energy to otherwise seemingly random things....

A fascinating conversation between Neil Wilkins and Somatic Coach, Leyth Hampshire , on the topic of Mindset. Leyth describes his life journey, which includes a near-death experience and how this helped to shape is self awareness and mindset. Neil and Leyth explore the idea that mindset, rather than being innate, can be learned by taking an holistic approach to self-awareness. Connect with Leyth a...

"Everything is fine. You're the one who said it isn't" said Michael Singer. So I've decided we should do something about it! Join me tomorrow as I talk with Leyth Hampshire, Somatic Coach and Mindset Expert, as we explore how to take a holistic body and mind approach to your wellbeing. I am very much looking forward to sharing this conversation with you as we take the next step forward in our jour...

Ghost Writing and Tone of Voice tricks and tips. Neil Wilkins explains some things you can experiment with if you are writing online and offline content, especially if you are doing it on behalf of someone else. “A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary part...

Ever wondered how some people seem to be able to host faultless, productive meetings?  In this webinar recording, Neil Wilkins from Cambridge Marketing College, shares ideas and planning tips for creating and hosting highly effective meetings, online, blended and face-to-face.  For more content like this visit http://neilwilkins.online  This webinar is part of the Cambridge Marketin...

Marketing Director of the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) , Gemma Butler, joins Neil Wilkins, to discuss the state of marketing today, what keeps marketers awake at night and the emerging topic at the core of the industry, Marketing Sustainability. Gemma explains how the CIM are supporting the development of marketers with programmes and modular courses, designed to help them unpack what's...

Being Your Own Witness is an amazingly simple and powerful technique for getting clarity and managing your energy in challenging times, when you encounter challenging people and in challenging situations  This ‘managing your energy’ technique helps you to step back out of your body and mind, to be your own witness or observer  Say STOP or just PAUSE whenever you are in a challenging situ...

4D Holistic and Wellbeing Coach, Ann McCluskey, talks to Neil about energy management in all its forms, at work and in private life. Ann describes energy management as more important and relevant than time management and explains some of the simple yet powerful techniques we can try, to gain a deeper understanding of energy control in our lives. Ann McCluskey has held senior HR positions in major...

Energy Management, Sustainability, Mindset and Wellbeing ... here comes February! January was quite an exploration into our mantra for this year 'Awareness and Abundance', the impact of seasonality and cycles on our lives and businesses and how to avoid the word Should, which never serves us well. We explored IKIGAI and being present with Nick Kemp and psychologist Naomi Stone guided us towards na...

This webinar, part of the Cambridge Marketing College 2022 series, focuses on the impact and opportunities of macro and micro seasonality factors in marketing.  No matter what your business or market sector, we are all affected by seasons, trends, loops and cycles.  In this informative webinar, Neil Wilkins teaches us what we can do about it.  Visit Cambridge Marketing College for m...

This week Neil is focusing on awareness of cycles, patterns, trends and seasonality. Today he invites you to explore How Are you Affected By Cycles? Nature cycles - moon, seasons, weather patterns, plant life/death Human cycles - circadian rhythms, menstrual cycle, hormones, sleep/waking patterns, calendars/festivals Work cycles - stock markets, seasonal trends, product lifecycles, customer buying...

Can nature improve your wellbeing at work and in other aspects of your life? Occupational Psychologist, Naomi Stone, believes it can and has the research evidence to prove it. Naomi has spent many years researching and studying biophilia. The biophilia hypothesis (also called BET) suggests that humans possess an innate tendency to seek connections with nature and other forms of life. Naomi believe...

What are you doing tomorrow? How did you decide? Pebbles In A Bowl is a great way of re-looking at how you decide to invest your time. Think of a bow... fill it with large pebbles. It's not full because you can fill the spaces with small pebbles. It's not full because you can then fill the spaces with sand. It's still not full because water can fill the spaces between the sand grains, between the...

It's Day 20... How is your 2022 journey going so far? I'm hearing lots of questions about the difference between Being and Doing, and yes there's a big difference. As a Human Being, we are mostly centred, balanced, calm, happy, focused and on track. As a Human Doing we are racing to achieve, making comparisons with others, judging and often beating ourselves up over things we perceive aren't worki...

In this conversation with Nick Kemp, Founder of http://ikigaitribe.com, Neil Wilkins explores the concept of being present with IKIGAI.   IKIGAI is the ancient Japanese philosophy of personal awareness and living every moment with focus and purpose.  Neil and Nick discuss gratitude, being in the  moment, avoiding the misnomer of multi-tasking and that we can, if we wish, have many I...

Where are most of us?  Have you struggled to integrate what you love doing, with what can bring you financial security in your life? Maybe you have reached a career crossroads or cannot decide what course or job will suit you best? It may be you feel unfulfilled in your life and you have an unsettled sense of purpose? Have you wondered what is the fundamental point of your existence?  Is...

Let's enjoy Coffee Time together in this short podcast episode where we explore being mindful of the symbiotic relationships in our life. By symbiotic I mean the relationships where both parties get true value and this can apply in work as well as personal life. Symbiotic relationships are a concept that will form part of this Friday's webinar "Finding Your Personal IKIGAI" and I encourage you to...

My Mantra for 2022 : Awareness and Abundance Living every moment, in the present, right here, right now, with gratitude and abundance. Does this sound good? Join me on this year's journey and let's do this together. We'll explore: Mindful Living - Living an IKIGAI Lifestyle - finding your life purpose and in every moment, doing what you love, what you’re good at, what the world needs and what you...

It's the end of our first pre-week before we get into the real work next week. We discussed Habit 1, which is exploring how to remove the word SHOULD from our communication. Habit 2 is to feel not just think, about what you want, as though you already have it. Now, Habit 3 for today and the weekend, is remembering that "Everything Just Is". In other words we give everything meaning, so we can chan...

Many of you have said you're back to 'business as usual' already! So what happened to those New Year Resolutions? It's likely they've faded already because you are thinking them and not feeling them. Manifesting is all about feeling what it's like to already be there, have it or have achieved it. When I set the feeling of what it would be like to have you here reading these words, it felt exciting...

Yesterday I talked about avoiding the word SHOULD and noticing each and every time you think or say the word, throughout your day.  How did that go?  Did you spot a pattern to the people, places or situations where and when you use the word SHOULD? What does that tell you about those people, places and situations?  If you didn't remember to begin this great habit or you did, but the...

My mantra for 2022 is "Awareness and Abundance". Sound great?   Living an IKIGAI lifestyle is doing what you love, that the world needs, that you’re good at, and that you can be rewarded for, every moment of every day. This, is my focus for 2022 and I invite you to join me.   This year is all about us creating Great Habits. So let's begin today with "Habit 1 - Removing SHOULD from your w...

For me, 2022 will be the year of Awareness and Abundance. Journey with me through this year, as we explore ancient wisdoms, new technologies, ideas and techniques for living a mindful, aware, present and abundant life... professionally and personally. If you would like to journey with me through 2022 as we explore Awareness and Abundance (in both your personal and professional life) ... I'd love t...

How do YOU motivate yourself? Achievement Motivation: Pursuit and attainment of goals? Affiliation Motivation: Social drive? Competence Motivation: Appearance of technical prowess? Power Motivation: Perceived influence over others? Attitude Motivation: Feel-good factor? Incentive Motivation: Material rewards? Fear Motivation: Avoidance driven? Neil Wilkins shares tools and techniques to help you 
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