“I’m waiting for my intuition.” “I like to wait and listen to my gut.” If you are spending the average time of almost two hours on social media each day, and almost six hours online, then you might be waiting a long time. While intuition, an “inner knowing” – something separate from the mind, may...

When you walk into work, or the gym and there’s someone new, someone you’ve never met, this is a vacuum. When you’re serving an angry customer, this is a vacuum. If you’re a trainer, a coach or a presenter, and you start the presentation and the microphone doesn’t work, this is a vacuum. A vacuum...

The translator works like an inverter in electronics – switching an unusable voltage into a usable one. A language switch. The translation of something foreign, into something familiar. Into something which we understand and is familiar. Almost in real time. So the question is, when we are among friends, family and colleagues, how often do...

When you are sailing in open ocean and approaching land after days at sea, there are three cases: You see the land itself You see unique cloud formations above the land, indicating land below You see colour variations in the clouds as a reflection of shallow (reef) water below, indicating land When you are free-diving...

Sometimes. In exercise, it’s “always train on a Monday.” This is a common motivational saying that helps us get cracking early. However, many journeys, stories, films or adventures follow a 5, 7 or 12 stage passage. Occasionally how it “starts” is nothing like how it ends. Through being open to feedback, we can scale up...

Learned Helplessness is when an animal believes it can’t escape from a stressful situation, and it’s heart slows down instead of accelerating.  Usually in a stressful situation, the heart rate would race – but in a trapped situation, over a period of time, it will slow down.  Given too much stress, it would actually stop. ...

When I talk about leadership, I’m talking about you and also to you. You seek change, you have the ability to be creative and the ability to lean into discomfort. For some people, this ability is more practiced, and for others, they are just beginning. However, leadership is there for anyone who wants it. When...

In the Access Potential Academy personal and professional development program, I don’t run a Facebook Group.* Here are some numbers and maybe you can see why: In Australia, in 2016, Australians spent an average of 46 hours per week looking at a screen, but just six hours with family and friends. In 2018, you spent...