Just do these three things. All you have to do is fill in your details, apply it to your situation and voila. Of course, this doesn’t work, for three reasons: It doesn’t help us overcome our fear that we have of doing it wrong, of failing, of being critisized and of doing the work each...

Checking email, perusing social.. We all see the acute productivity cost with distraction. We don’t get as much work done, we feel frustrated. This is fairly clear and fairly self-centric. However there’s another cost which is far bigger. If we set any agreement with ourselves, another person, a group or organisation, become distracted, then fail...

Gardeners often believe if their trees are growing too close together, they will deprive each other of light and water. It turns out, as Peter Wohlleben writes in the Hidden Life of Trees, that this idea stems from the commercial forestry industry. Here, trees are spaced apart, grown as quickly as possible and only live...

“Sound meditation” – almost a bombardment of sound waves onto the body. The water molecules in the body itself actually vibrate or resonate with different frequencies. This, can be healing. It is a rich experience. Listening meditation is quite different. It is the receptive form. The passive form. In a world that is dominated by...

In 2003, when I started at University, the secret weapon was still consumption. “Online” bandwidth was limited and slow, so it was a valuable commodity – the bottleneck that we all lined up behind to “develop” ourselves intellectually and even culturally (movies, music). Now, the pendulum has swung. Bandwidth and information is in abundance. Overwhelm....

There’s an abundance of peer pressure to join something new, or peer pressure to quit that and join something else. There’s peer pressure to over-work, over-train, over-drink and over-think. But what about peer pressure to keep connecting, to keep contributing? What if you seek out people who care as much about you as you do...

The minimum role of the follower (or maybe employee) might be to follow a system, an operating procedure for maintaining order. The leader welcomes the unknown and disorder. They are creative. They move forward, even though they see the fear. It may be with your self or it may be among others, but if you...

Typically, we live through the past. We exist as a sort of collection of past experiences that have come through our sensory inputs, feeding into biases and memories, which help us to articulate our current environment and reality in some approximate way. A narrative. Because of the narrative, it’s hard to see things as they...