How to discover your ‘Why?’ – Through storytelling in forest…?
Why? why? why? …“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.” Antoine de Saint-Exupery Why do you do what you do? I think this is probably the most important question […]
Life Coaching: The Ultimate Guide to Transforming Your Life
Life coaching connects you with specialists that can help accelerate your personal development. Find out how a life coach can change your life today. Do you ever feel like you’re taking two steps forward and three steps back? Does your life feel dull and unfulfilled due to a lack of progress and discovery? Are you […]
I’ll do what I want to…
Photo by Tembela Bohle from Pexels Life is pretty simple. But not easy. The trouble is we have that logical side within us that says, ‘eat less…save more…speak up!’ And the emotional side that says, “f*ck it. I’ll do what I want.” You can. There’s nothing wrong with that – if mediocrity is your game. […]
How to communicate anything in 7 steps
A Communication Process I have found this process, which I have adapted from Marshall Goldberg’s, Non-Violient Communication – also known as the Clear Communication or Collaborative Communication model – an essential and valuable tool for resolving conflict and being able to communicate when it’s easier not to! It is a remarkable process and I urge […]
We will find a way if we need to (great video)
My wife recently read a book by Martha Beck called Steering by Starlight – How to fulfill your destiny, no matter what. One of the things that the author talks about in the book is intention – i.e. if your intention is strong enough, you will make your dreams come true, no matter what. She […]
He wasn’t a genius – he just went searching
Werner Erhard with the Dalai Lama in 1979.Credit: Werner Erhard Foundation I get some of my greatest insights in life when I do simple things like having a shower, boiling the kettle, or in this case, opening the fridge. I was opening the fridge recently and as I did,the phrase, “this is it and I’m […]
What two boxing bouts in the Army taught me about resilience
I didn’t have a very long or illustrious boxing ‘career’ – in fact it lasted just two bouts – but I remember it well. Whilst attending The Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst – where the British Army trains it’s officers – we were introduced to ‘milling:’ 60 seconds of non-stop ‘controlled aggression’ against your opponent, with […]
Why breakdowns are essential to success
Often when we are in breakdown, we look at successful people and wonder how they did it. The truth is, many successful people took a long time to get there, and not without their fair share of failure along the way. Consider the following examples: Henry Ford’s early businesses failed and left him broke five […]
Why, “What about me?” is a rotten question
Photo by Liv Bruce on Unsplash Don’t we so often get so stuck, absorbed and over-interested in ourselves? What we want, what our purpose is, how we can make money, what’s my legacy? What about asking a different question? What if we were to ask, ‘What does the world want from us?” Or, “what were we put on […]
One swallow doesn’t make a summer
Photo by Mike Kotsch on Unsplash In a conversation with a client recently, I used a phrase: one swallow doesn’t make a summer. I was unsure whether or not to use it, as I thought he might experience it as demeaning, or patronising; or that I was just throwing out a quote or a cliché. That was until […]