Cultivating attention. Completing tasks with intent. What is happening here, right this very moment? Attention is the most direct route to cultivating personal power. When we can come back to this moment and this task, we accumulate power. When we are split, we dissipate personal power. Any action or tool that splits attention is reducing...
That tension and super busy mind you feel right when you wake up each day and start to think about work… That’s not normal. It’s not “bad,” it’s simply an adaptation to the stimulus that you put on the brain and nervous system. When we get “good” at thinking, solving problems and understanding new situations,...
Symphony is the capacity to synthesise rather than to analyse, to see the spaces in between, to connect the dots. It’s to find perspective and relationships, often beyond language – allowing us to shift between domains. It’s the way we “hear” the whole orchestra, not just the oboe. When I was 17, I hesitantly signed up...
To me, you matter. How you breathe, move, hold tension, and speak (did you speak from the belly, chest or throat just before?) influences my perception of the environment and thus my own state. Of course, it’s happening in fractions of a second and subconsciously, most of the time. Because both of us have these...
“Almost all innovation in a system happens at fringes. So maximize fringes.” In Out of Control: The Rise of Neo-Biological Civilisation, Kevin Kelley makes an observation about biological processes: “The nature of an innovation is that it will arise at a fringe where it can afford to become prevalent enough to establish its usefulness without...
If you are stranded on a desert island with a small community of people, there is no place for a stop-watch. In these pro-survival situations, the non-compete clause comes out. We don’t need to “race” in our work or our “fitness” with a clock. There’s no upside to additional strain, it is better to connect...
In 1982, Tom Peters’ book “In Search of Excellence” was published and sold 3 million copies in its first year. Tom’s multi-year project to write the book was based on a different way of looking at successful companies, and can really be summarised by the concept of “people first.” This was in stark contrast to...
Creating busyness or “frenzy” is a farce. We know this. However, creation, or “newness” can be celebrated, due to its rarity. Newness has an ability to challenge the status quo. If the “busyness” you create is a means to pull yourself through the difficulty of launching something new – to create a new workshop, to...
