The world needs everything. A little overwhelming, if you spend some time thinking about all of that. So with finite time, and finite energy, we come to a decision. Where do we focus? What is our work? What do we do? While it’s a big question (and in my experience, any kind of answer tends...

There’s a speech from a lecturer at MIT, his name is Patrick Winston. He’s talking to this big group of uni students in a crowded lecture hall. He says that in battle, it’s essential that soldiers don’t go out unarmed with their weapon, and that in life after university, it’s the same with our ability...

On Thursday my wife walks back in after a coffee date with her friend. She had that walk on that tells me she’s got something to say. “You’ll love this.” I look up, and wait for it. She knows I love stories of small biz and in particular cafés (if you’ve read my blogs, this...

Between where you are, and where you thought you’d be right now. Not worse, not better, just different. A lateral gap, not a vertical. We can look at it in two ways – one is we fell short, we didn’t have the strength, or, we lacked certain attributes. The other way to look at it...

When you start the marathon, unless you plan to go sub-three, it doesn’t matter much where you’re standing. Sure, you probably don’t want to be stuck in the line for the restroom when the gun goes (it happens), but generally speaking, over a 42.2km race, the first 500m won’t matter much. With the marathon, as...

Sometimes we’d hang out with a motley-little-crew of other boats. We’d dot our way along the islands, and see the same snail-like double-ender with fading varnish on the teak deck turn up in the anchorage, or hear Serendipity II check in on the radio when we were at sea, ranting us about the bad weather...

When I opened a gym in ’14, I thought the trainers or owners who did the best were the ones who were the fittest, could do all the skills and who knew the most. It wasn’t a conscious thing, but I put the strongest, most flexible and knowledgeable people on a pedestal. I figured naturally...

When we’re fired up to the eyeballs with good energy, an adverse local environment is a speed bump. No problem. As the timeframe extends though (becoming chronic), the nature of the environment becomes more important. Ultimately, whether it’s water quality, light, or energetic nature of the people around us, over a long timeframe, we become...