We are used to a 60 minute timeframes. If it’s a group meeting, the first 20 are typically gone with late arrivals, banter and a general lack of intent. Even with some level of focus, this is typically long enough to catch up on a few things, but rarely enough for high power, deeper work....

First we focus on energy. Energy production, awareness, becoming your own power source. The Energy Generation module of the Access Potential Academy program has six components – Breath, Perception, Nourishment and then Urgency, Necessity and Impeccability. Half of these are focused more on the physiology – our body, our being. The other half though, are...

“You cannot be creative unless someone is pushing you off a cliff somewhere.” – Jozef Frucek, Fighting Monkey When your back is to the cliff, there is both urgency, and necessity. Urgency in that we have to act. Now. And necessity in that it’s of the highest priority. Life and death. There is also a...

It’s easy to do a favour when someone has helped us out. It’s easy to “do our job” to a certain level when we have a certain salary. Of course we say “thank you” when we’ve just received a gift. What happens though when we let go of the trade? What happens when we move...

Long course triathlon typically refers to half or full ironman triathlon races. These races involve a swim, a cycle leg and then a run, they could take between 4 and 16 hours depending on the event and the person. In long course triathlon, there are a couple of traps that catch most people, at some...

It’s easy to downplay the things that are happening right in front of our nose: climate change, the beginning of the financial crises, a rift forming in a relationship or friendship is starting to go sideways. It is equally easy to downplay the potential impact that we can have as an individual in these situations....

Often I fly in a little single engined Cessna Grand Caravan from Great Barrier Island to Auckland. Fairly frequently, there can be turbulence – especially in the middle of the flight over Channel Island. When the turbulence hits, we literally have no power. The change in relative air velocity over the wings can cause sudden...

Occasionally, idea generation can be a bottleneck. In particular, “out of the box” ideas. With some practice though, we find even radical ideas are cheap (kind of like goals…) and abundant. The critical step very quickly becomes action – the work to put the idea in motion. Even when our emotional landscape isn’t optimal, it...