jeff miller

Today, let go of one of your self-defeating attitudes by saying to yourself: I now release living through others and not developing myself.

(Enneagram Transformations, 108)

Nine: The Myth of Being Unimportant

“If I stay agreeable and keep the peace, I won’t be rejected.”

Nines often carry a myth that their presence is too much or not enough. So they merge, disappear, defer.

But under the myth is a quiet rebellion: What if my desires matter? Shadow work invites the Nine to wake up to their own pulse and take up their rig

Think about the Holy Idea for Type Nine today: “In Holy Love, our sense of separateness dissolves, and we know ourselves as arising from the brilliant light of Divine Love that creates and sustains the universe.” (Understanding the Enneagram, 62)

How to reframe unwelcome feedback (via Greg Shove)

https://substack.com/home/post/p-166270992

The natural reaction to getting critical feedback is to think: “They’re wrong – it’s not my fault.”

Instead, try to think: This person is showing me a blind spot.

A blind spot doesn’t mean “you’re bad at your job,” or even that your work quality is bad. It cou

As we roll out more Generative AI and agents, it should change the way our work is done. We will need fewer people doing some of the jobs that are being done today, and more people doing other types of jobs. It's hard to know exactly where this nets out over time, but in the next few years, we expect this will reduce our total corporate workforce a

Today, accept your invitation to abundance to bring peace and healing into your world.

Remember that it is your True Nature to be an inexhaustible font of serenity, acceptance, and kindness in the world.

(The Wisdom of the Enneagram, 48)

The seed is called othering. It is like a grain of plutonium that creates cancer in any body it enters.

Othering refers to a worldview in which self and other are fundamentally separate. It is a worldview of winners and losers, in which your loss is my gain. It is a worldview of good guys and bad guys, friends and enemies, decent folk and the deplor

Integrating Threes move to healthy Six and become committed to others. (Understanding the Enneagram, 82)

Integrating Nines move to healthy Three and become interested in developing themselves and their potential. (Understanding the Enneagram, 122)

where you become visibly anxious, reactive, and pessimistic. Do you sense these qualities in yourself today—and know what triggered them? (Understanding the Enneagram, 122)