How I feel when I visit a certain business isn’t really tangible. It’s something internal, something soft, something we can’t see. A lot of times we talk about creating a particular culture, or that we want to feel a certain way in our relationships – we want a specific intangible result. But to create these...

A creator is someone who is “adding to” the culture. Art, speaking, writing, designing, baking specialty donuts… whatever. Sometimes creators really they identify with this… often as “a creative.” Really though, all of us are creators if we want to be. So the paradox really hits everyone. Now the creator’s paradox is super simple: To...

We love generosity. A give with no expectation – a smile from the staff at the cafe, a podcast drops from your favourite creator… For a business or freelancer, a posture of generosity helps to generate both attention and trust in the community. It’s kind of critical really as we move forward in a crowded...

Not with your job title. Not with someone else’s idea of you. But finding alignment within yourself. When we have a match between our inner world – how we want to live – our purpose, our mission, our essence, and our outer world – how we are actually living – our actions, our speech… we...

When you start exercising, there’s an age-old idea that you can only increase your load (or volume) a couple of percent per week. It takes the body time to adapt to the new stimulus – if you were to go all out and increase your load by 50% in 3 weeks, you are going to...

The “Resistance” is the term that was coined by Steven Pressfield for the force that opposes us when we are trying to do good work, and in particular, create new work. Maybe you want to lose some weight, but something pops up that stops you going to the gym – that’s the resistance. Maybe you...

Ok, “hustle” first. Let’s zoom out and look at the actual goal. Usually, this involves getting some sort of meaningful project completed. Along the path, we find there’s certainly going to be some serious work involved. Usually more than most people think. There has to be hard work, it simply isn’t easy to create change....

Luna the Staffordshire Bull Terrier can overheat when she walks in Summer… She’s short, has dark fur, is ridiculously muscular and basically just dense. She gets so excited to be out romping in the park collecting sticks, that she loses her ability to regulate temperature well. It’s rarely a concern, but she always comes back...