Ever find yourself standing at the coffee machine making an espresso? Or looking through the fridge for some food? Maybe scrolling social media mindlessly? Why did you find yourself there? Where you really hungry? For food? For quality information? Or was it habit? It would be nice and easy if our actions were driven by...

The first pillar for me to develop empathy for you is my ability to “see what you see.” This is also known as perspective taking. When we talk about perspective taking, it’s a layer “removed” from the perspective itself. This means that we are then able to “try on” the perspective. We try to stand...

If you want to sail from New Zealand to Australia and muster up the energy to complete the 2000+km, it’s helpful if you stay roughly on course. It’s worth the effort to navigate. If energy drives the potential for change, the quality of our intent helps us make this a change we “want” rather than...

In 2009 my friend Pete and I were experimentally modifying shoes. At the time, most of the shoes on offer had too high of a “heel,” as the “barefoot shoe” market hadn’t really popped. So, we started taking shoes that we liked the “feel” of, and hack-sawing out part of the heel. We would cut...

It’s tempting to outsource accountability. To find someone else to “push us back in” to the work we already know we want to do. And this can be helpful. But what if we look deeper at the root cause. The work that we do drives change. And change is stressful on the nervous system. What...

What happens when we get “behind?” Behind at work, behind on a health program, behind on a side project. Usually, we do one of two things: We go huge. Double time. Light speed multi-tasking.We give up completely, and squander time until next week, when we’ve had some kind of “reset,” and it’ll be a “fresh...

There’s a lot of hype around time allocation. An hour at the café here, 8 hours in the office there… This is really just a “space and time” allocation. A position. Even if we go further, while in these positions, maybe we’re even busy “getting stuff done?” Yet once again, simply a description of a...

I ran into the florist at the Junction – again, right on closing. I’m always aware of the time when I do this, as I know it can be a little frustrating for those in retail as they try to lock up and get home on time. Yet here I am again at 5:25pm, and...