In the marathon, it’s not until about the 32km mark In the Ironman Triathlon, it’s again at the end of the bike or even half-way through the run. With the new business, it’s after dozens (or hundreds) of rejections, “no’s” or non-responses. Then we feel like we have maybe gotten somewhere. When we start the...

Mostly we get confused. We were tricked early on into a funny sort of over-arching model. It works in a clunky fashion, but it’s still a trick. Realising this is the first thing. The questioning of this “society,” or the culture, which is telling you who you have to be, or who you are supposed...

Which shoe do you put on first? How many times do you check your emails at work after 1pm? These are patterns, or habits that we have, but they are typically also patterns that we don’t really know the answer until we really think about it, or record it. So what? So awareness of breath...

What’s a “Fulcrum”?? So, this term came from one of my friends and mentors with the breathing work, Cole Clayton. Cole talks about how we can create a “fulcrum” with our breathing.. A fulcrum can be defined mechanically, in terms of a lever, or it can be defined as something that plays a central or...

Post 309. After a short time away and offline in the Blue Mountains, writing continues. 11 days have been missed during silent retreats so far. More will be missed in the future. Sometimes, for whatever reason, this happens. We miss. We miss a day of our new habit – making it to the gym, prepping...

I neglect my talents Far far away, behind the word mountains, far from the countries Vokalia and Consonantia, there live the blind texts. Separated they live in Bookmarksgrove right at the coast of the Semantics, a large language ocean. A small river named Duden flows by their place and supplies it with the necessary regelialia....

*I am heading away tomorrow into a retreat. I don’t write during these times. So, my next post will be on Monday October 29th”* In art, when we learn to draw, sometimes we are taught to look at the “negative spaces,” the spaces around the object. What do we have when we take “form” away?...

Both Charles Duhigg and James Clear have written some great work on habit development and the power of habits. I believe there is another small super-power in the creation of habits. That is confidence or belief. I’ve often talked about the power of belief. When we are able to identify a habit that isn’t serving...