Is it: Faster? Cleaner? Smoother? Friendlier? More specific? More frequent? More compact? More organised? More transferrable? Easier to understand? When we’re serving others and trying to make a change, a question that sometimes goes unanswered is what does “better” look like? When you step into the shoes of the person on the other side, how...

When you walk past a surf school, you’ll often see them with a line of people set up on the sand, with the big blue boards on the ground. The people lie on the board on the beach, pretend to paddle, and then spring to their feet. The idea is that this gives us some...

Knowing that something exists has lost weight. It used to matter. Things were hard to find, hard to come by… But now, everything exists. A touch football team down the road, any unique blend of music you’d like to hear, a running event of any distance. Wine delivered to your house. Online degrees. Almost all...

Back in 2009, my friend Pete was racing pro, I was in the 18-24 category. I’d spent the last 6 months learning from him – training, mindset… I absorbed (copied) everything. And finally, we got to race together in October at the Ironman triathlon world champs in Hawaii. There was this one spot running on...

Well, there may have been a time there at uni when I lived on campus across from the quad… But here I’m talking about another kind of streaking. When we try to create change, we’re usually looking at a series of actions that we have to take, and often these need to be repeated over...

When we think of powerful communication, we often think of leverage. The leader standing on the stage. The public speaker. The person reading the news. The ability and position to reach a lot of people at once. To “scale” our message. While more “reach” is attractive, it’s only one axis. What does more depth look...

a) “I would like to get fit for my wedding.” b) “I want to lose 5kg.” c) “I want to “move” a little more each day, and learn to fuel my body well.” One of these has a set time domain. Two of these lean on external validation or metrics. And only the last one...

Is rooted in perception. When you write, speak, or share your ideas or assertions, you’re sticking your neck out. When we voice something, we’re by definition exposing ourselves to something else – to the opposite, to a contrast, and even to disagreement. Talk about tension. That’s one way of perceiving the situation. Another way to...