Bianca Best
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A writer, entrepreneur, award-winning ad exec, global tech leader, mother and unshakeable optimist passionately devoted to ensuring your life glistens with the work, love and vitality you desire.
Stories (27/0)
Lead More Like A Monk
This book surprised me with its poignancy. A summer read I stumbled upon (neatly apt as we travelled around Thailand on our 2023 summer break mingling amidst the plethora of orange clad holy ones). In it I unearthed earthly guidance not just relevant to spiritual growth, personal evolution and all the higher realm stuff, but professional impact too. Jay Shetty was a normal Londoner naughtily navigating school and socials, later fancied time in a monastery, ended up at Accenture where he bloomed beyond ego and financial gain into blending monk teachings with working life and is now a world renowned life coach extraordinaire.
By Bianca Best11 months ago in Humans
10 Ways to Shift from Struggle to Grace.
If I asked you to infuse your life with grace what would it look like? To be gracefully productive. To have impact with grace. To be graceful as a parent, graceful in your communication, graceful in your leadership. What would change? Think about it for a moment. Be fascinated by You as a graceful being.
By Bianca Best11 months ago in Humans
What's safer, your Ego or your Intuition?
Today is boom time for ‘consciousness’, for ‘awakening’. We’re in an effervescent era of mindfulness exploration as we all grapple to breathe, be present and step out of the whirlwinds of our tumultuous, tech-filled, stimulus-assaulted lives. We’re all fervently seeking utopian states of peace, joy and fulfilment, be they ephemeral or eternal.
By Bianca Bestabout a year ago in Humans
What will you do next?
Atop my dusty attic shelf stands a well-leafed, well-loved storybook about a teddy bear separated from his owner working out how to stop being and feeling so lost. His little, furry self is overwhelmed by the magnitude of the world and its apparent lack of signposting. But then eureka! He spots a path then knows what to do next, to walk along it. He spots a boat then knows what to do next, to climb aboard it. He spots a hand then has the idea to hold it. Each charmingly illustrated page ends with the sentence “…and then Bear knew what to do next.”
By Bianca Bestabout a year ago in Humans
Big Impact. Are you ready to reach those stars of yours?
We all want to have impact. It’s an innate human desire. To belong, to be needed, to be heard and seen. To know that our efforts have an effect, that they positively affect others/society/the world and that there’s solid reason for doing what we do, an alluring rationale for being. Inherently, we want reassuring certainty that we are worthy and that our actions matter (and mattered) to ensure our souls slumber peacefully each night satisfied our toil was, well, worth it.
By Bianca Bestabout a year ago in Motivation
Are you effectively harnessing yoru warrior archetype or too perpetually in battle mode?
The warrior archetype is a person who uses their strength and courage to protect others. They are often decisive and choose to fight for what they believe in. The warrior archetype contains both masculine and feminine energy and is focused on conquering.
By Bianca Bestabout a year ago in Psyche
The Sober Decision. There isn’t sunshine at the bottom of that glass after all.
I’ve always been sober curious. So many in our industry are. Are you? I’ve devoured tomes on the topic of booze from biographies of famous sober idols (Rob Lowe my most indulgent guilty pleasure), to graphic and shocking analyses of high functioning alcoholics, to ‘stop drinking now’ hypnosis meditations, to heart-breaking alcoholic memoirs, to pragmatic guides to giving up.
By Bianca Bestabout a year ago in Humans
SHAME ON YOU GOOGLE! FIRING A TOP PERFORMER ON THE GROUNDS OF PROCESS IS LAMENTABLE.
Sivan Hermon had more awards than years of service under her belt at Google. A decade of consistently rising stardom, endless recognition from above, below and across the industry, her impact was awarded publicly time and time again followed by resplendent Googler career progression. Then in an abrupt a case of wrong place, wrong time she woke up one jolty morning this year to find herself unemployed. (Read her full story here.)
By Bianca Bestabout a year ago in Humans
Did you know your career is a permanent beta?
Have you seen Ken Robinson’s now classic Ted Talk on how schools are killing creativity? Robinson laments an antiquated ethos lingering in our education system which enforces learning by rote. His point is that this yields little value later out in the big wide world for our children who will enter adult life in the most unpredictable and volatile time in history.
By Bianca Bestabout a year ago in Humans
How do you learn?
LEARN THESE 4 WAYS TO OPTIMISE YOUR LEARNING Next week my youngest son is going to see an educational psychologist. He’ll sit a couple of papers examining Maths and English ability, he’ll be assessed on verbal and non-verbal solutioning, his processing speed will be calculated and he’ll have lots of discussion about his thoughts on school, inner reactions to classroom situations and more. 2 weeks later I’ll receive a detailed report guiding me and him on his optimal learning path. We’ll have identified gaps in his knowledge per curriculum expectations, the way his brain ignites over different stimulus, how he retains information best and essentially we’ll have a map to ensure he excels and most importantly enjoys learning.
By Bianca Bestabout a year ago in Humans
HOW DO YOU MAKE PEOPLE FEEL?
The biggest hearted people leave warm glows in their wakes. Their kind, expansive energy embalms those they encounter with uplifting ripples that happily linger. We remember their positive vibe and forever think fondly of them. As Maya Angelou famously said “People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
By Bianca Bestabout a year ago in Motivation
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