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Volume XXX

Welcome to Volume XXX of Living on the Edge, the fortnightly newsletter from Living Edge Life Coaching, designed to inform, educate, challenge and inspire you!

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Annabel Varvel

Life Coach BA.LLB

 

COACHING CORNER

 

 

Lessons from the life of Leonardo da Vinci

 

I recently attended a business leader's breakfast the topic of which was "Learning from Leonardo".  The speaker, Phil Baker, drew out a number of principles from the life of Leonardo that are useful to us all both in business and in developing ourselves personally.  I thought I'd share with you his major points:

 

Cultivate Curiosity

Leonardo was an intensely curious individual.  He was inquisitive about many varied things from the human anatomy to art to science.  He wanted to know and understand how things worked. Here are a few tips on how to cultivate curiosity:

  1. Write things down - Leonardo carried his notebooks everywhere he went and recorded his observations.  Get a journal or a note book and start writing!
  2. Ask questions - people are fantastic resources - ask, find things out, don't be satisfied with the amount you already know.
  3. Keep learning - apparently studies have shown that life long learning can help to stave off dementia!

 

Stimulate Your Senses

You have 5 senses - use them all deliberately.  Sight, sound, taste, touch & smell.

  1. Make your workplace multi-sensory.  Don't have a bland one dimension work environment.  Add flowers for colour and smell, use colour and texture in the furnishings, play music.  If all or many of your senses are being stimulated it makes you more productive.
  2. Exercise your senses deliberately.  Take notice of what you hear, touch, smell.
  3. Try new things.  Chose an unusual dish at a restaurant, buy a different perfume.  Lash out - be different!

 

Fine Tune Your Physique

Not only did Leonardo have a finely tuned brain, he also kept himself in top physical condition.  In our culture we tend to associate intelligent people with not being particularly active and top sports people with not being particularly intelligent.  Our brains use 30% of the oxygen we breathe and exercise gets more oxygen to our brain, so we need to be fit to keep the brain active!  Here's how:

  1. Eat well.
  2. Improve your fitness.

It's not magic - just have to do it!

 

Broaden Your Mind

Use your whole brain - not just the left or right side - use both.

  1. Develop different aspects of your brain.  If you tend to be a right brain thinker make deliberate choices to say read poetry or take up painting.
  2. Grow your brain.  Never stop learning.
  3. Realise that you are smarter than you think you are.  Don't limit your capabilities by having a small picture of yourself.

 

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E: natalies@riverviewchurch.com.au

 

 

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