When my son was about a year old, I once covered his ears while a firetruck was driving by us with it’s sirens blaring. Since shortly after this he has taken to covering his own ears whenever he hears a siren. Most often, at first […]
Read MoreWhen I was younger and travelling, I sometimes carried a knife. I carried it for defence in case I met violence. After a while I stopped carrying it though. I had gotten a sense that by pro-actively protecting myself against potential violence, I was also […]
Read MoreRecently at the playground, an older boy grabbed the ball from my son’s hands and threw it over the wall. The moment it happened, I felt a slight tension around my solar plexus and a memory from the schoolyard in my youth flashed across my […]
Read MoreFive years ago I was in Spain with my girlfriend. We were doing a juice fast at a health resort. I took my lady for a walk one evening to see the orange groves and on the way back, we caught the sun setting through […]
Read MoreThroughout my late twenties and into my thirties, I had said often to myself and others, “I’m the happiest guy I know”. It always just occurred to me to be the case, as I was generally quite happy with everything in life; work, family, relationships, […]
Read MoreRecently, my wife and I got into an argument. It happened in seconds, like a flash fire in a pan. Seemingly out of nowhere we were shouting at each other about something inane. And then, just as quickly as it had come, it ended. Somehow […]
Read MoreOur evolution is accelerating. Technology, medicine, climate, economics, politics and religion – all changing rapidly and causing disruption. While in ways the world is coming together, an underbelly of fear is also driving greater separation. Questions on the minds of many leaders are: How do […]
Read MoreThere is a man who lives in a van that frequents a cafe I visit once or twice a day. I go there to break up the energy of being in my studio. Mostly I drink decaf lattes. They tell me I’m the only one […]
Read More[ New Distinctions for Entrepreneurs – Part 12 of 12 ] To ‘make’ something is to bring it into form of your own accord. It is to be the full cause for a thing’s existence. When we use the word ‘create’ however, there is a […]
Read More[ New Distinctions for Entrepreneurs – Part 1 of 12 ] The typical orientation when ‘pitching’ your business is to impress your audience so that they will want what you have. What if instead of pitching to impress, you pitched to impact? What if the […]
Read MoreWe are presumed to agree that a fulfilling life comes through strenuous effort. What if this isn’t true? Or at least, what if having to ‘compete’ and ‘struggle’ is not the only path to fulfillment? What if there is another way? A way that is […]
Read MoreThe dominant paradigm for success is that of a quantitative measure. Inculcated with this worldview by an industrialized education system, we unconsciously measure success by ‘how much’ is achieved. We don’t consider this is only one way to measure success. Without even realising it, we […]
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