Unbounded Blog

The rational vs the intuitive mind

Are your beliefs limiting what is possible?

In this video, Unbounded’s Martin Palethorpe delves into the profound impact that subconscious beliefs can have on our ability to achieve our goals and live the life we want.

Look. It’s pretty bloody obvious… if you don’t look at your health & wellbeing, you’ll get illness or disease. The body tells the score and will always catch up with you at some point.

In the video above, Unbounded’s Martin Palethorpe explores the concept of separate realities, revealing how our minds shape our perspectives on relationships.

The key part of leading with conviction is to get clear about what you've got conviction about. 

Every day, I work with people who tell me they are too busy, and who believe it's this busyness that is causing them stress, perhaps even burnout. But what is busyness?

Join us in January for a very special New Year Quality of mind Programme

We welcomed a group who spent three days in the Hampshire countryside, learning about the mind and leaving with profound insights about their own life and work and a greater awareness of their thinking.

Listen to what they had to say about then programme.

Now more than ever, it’s essential to speak your mind.

I wrote this a month back. It seems more relevant to reflect on than ever…

Please do have a watch of this. We’d love to know your feedback.

Or Conscious Leaders Development Programme is so powerful and so needed for the world of today.

Meet Joe. Joe is my fictitious client (created as an avatar of many who I work with).

Joe works extremely hard during the year, and often feels stressed. He doesn’t have great life balance during a typical working week. He always wishes that he did more exercise. He's slightly overweight and drinks too much.

When it gets to August Joe is desperate for his holiday.

We believe that we have the easiest way to help an organisation transform, which is to cause deep, profound, powerful, lasting and transformational, change in the leaders who are key to leading the organisation.

In this post, we're going to be exploring the topic of avoiding burnout. 

And the challenge we see is that we live in complex and ever-changing world right now. There's so much change going on with globalisation, with technology, with the climate, with political uncertainty, economic uncertainty and so on.  

And people feel very busy, busy in their life and busy in their heads.

Are you aware in any moment or are you sleepwalking through your life?

Being aware, it's about tuning into what's actually going on in the moment, naming it and doing something with it. Let me give you three examples.

Are you living sustainably? Are you leading sustainably? Some questions to ask yourself…

What tensions do you notice that exist for you in the month of August?

There is something about the holiday time period that seems to create unhelpful patterns for many people. Here are four such patterns that I notice. Which one(s) affect(s) you?

There are powerful links between the ancient practice of yoga, and our Quality of Mind programme.

The most popular video I’ve ever recorded is called Fleas in a Jar, and the heart of the story explores how we are boxed in by our thinking.

Would you like to explore your relationship to money? Then read on…

How is your life and work? Or more importantly, how is your thinking about your life and work?

If you’ve gained huge value from the Quality of Mind programme in the past, but find yourself having forgotten how to ‘apply’ it, why not come for a refresh…

Our June Quality of Mind foundation programme was full of magic. The first we've held at our beautiful new venue, Meon Springs.

Wondering is you might like to join us on the next programme? Listen to some of feedback our attendees gave…

In the old world, we influence others to get what we want. This is manipulative. We also often use our power to influence people. Power comes from the resources you have, or the authority of your role.

I have a client who recently walked The Three Peaks in 24 hours. I spoke to him before the event and his mind was racing in many directions.

And yet this physical challenge is not really a physical challenge. It’s a mental challenge. It’s entirely an inner game. We either learn to not be captured by the mind and the challenge is easy, or we get consumed by the ‘boss’ and the challenge is extremely hard.

On this episode of THRIVE — a video podcast for creative and tech leaders interested in the intersection of conscious leadership and agency growth, Kelly Campbell and Martin Palethorpe discuss how agency leaders can go deeper on their journey toward more conscious leadership.

Choosing the right mechanism for communication is crucial in today's fast-paced world. So, how can you decide which communication method is suitable for a given situation?

The profound importance of listening cannot be overstated. It may seem like a simple topic, but the reality is that quality listening is a rare skill in today's fast-paced and distracted world. To truly listen, you must be fully present, free from the distractions of the voice in your head.

In a world that constantly demands our attention and energy, it is easy to get caught up in a whirlwind of activities without pausing to consider the consequences of our choices. But have you ever stopped to ask yourself if you are truly living life sustainably?

Take a moment to reflect on your own team: How safe do you feel expressing yourself? Do you feel comfortable sharing your thoughts, even if they differ from the majority?

Consciously choosing the words that define who you want to be holds immense value. Sometimes, you may find yourself not fully embodying the qualities you desire, only realising it in retrospect.

That's why, before such crucial moments, it's beneficial to deliberately decide who you aspire to be.