Your coffee contemplation today: “In a mutually interdependent world, none of us has absolute control over everything we choose to do. You are either being influenced by others or exerting influence simply by being who you are.” I think it’s a curious exercise to reflect on who you’re being influenced by and who you’re influencing …
I felt a bit scrappy this morning along with an incredible urge to walk around naked. There must have been something in my coffee to trigger a primal reaction. Having watched Hamilton over the weekend, I now have the soundtrack on repeat in Spotify. Particularly the lead track Alexander Hamilton, also My Shot, Ten Duel …
Let’s play a game… Battleground God – Do your beliefs about religion and god stand up to philosophical scrutiny? Begin
I’m slowing beginning to re-emerge from my wounded cocoon. Mobility in my right hand is edging along nicely, range of motion increasing each day since my release from the day ward. Of course I want to charge ahead like a mad bull, but I’ve purposefully kept the breaks on to allow this old body time …
(1) That’s right, nobody is coming to rescue you. I have to remind myself of that from time to time. It means, if you want to change your situation, if you want to make life work for you, then you have to turn inward and draw from your internal resources. In the end, the onus …
I’ve been exploring this week the various angles we use to wiggle our way into happiness and try to create a system that makes happiness a constant instead of the variable that it is.
The general advice is to find your passion and do that for a living. But you need to add a little bit more to the equation. Find the intersection of these three things: Things you are good at Things you love to do Things people will pay you to do Then you’re on to a …
Nir Eyal posted this on Medium: How to achieve your goals by creating an enemy. I was going to flick on by it, but I didn’t. I wanted to see what he had to say about enemies. I know a thing or two about enemies, and in my experience, it’s never a good thing to …
This week, I’ve been working on a piece of self-paced e-learning for parents of children with special needs with my good friend Aimee Mann of Aimee Mann Mentoring. The e-course is called Getting Your Voice Heard. It’s a workshop she runs in physical space and is now converting it into an online format in order …
