“I don’t like this…” “Around here, we don’t like that…” “I’d never do it like those people over there…” Although common, positioning yourself against something else only rarely adds value. While it might feel good to raise yourself up in a “relative” sense, it turns out, it’s really just one world view contrasting against another...

We live in relationship. Spatially, emotionally, energetically. Our experiences themselves stem from being in relationship, beginning with sensory inputs. “It’s hot to touch,” “it sounds like,” “that is pretty..” Each of these draws not just on present relationships, but also on the past. “Relative to…” Considering this, the effort to cultivate generosity, possibility and empathy...

Deliberate reconsideration is to look one level further. To recruit design thinking. What else might this change if I carry this out? Is how I’ve organised myself for this movement, this activity or this project optimal given my resources? Is there something I’m not seeing here that can change things dramatically? Marginally slower on the...

Connection, possibility, conversation… These are a few of the reasons why I chose to embark on the the Access Potential Podcast project a couple of months ago. So far, it has been a really rewarding project and 23 episodes have been recorded. Through this, I’ve found another medium to practice expression and articulation, as well...

Don’t get the best results. Even though, sometimes it feels like they will. When you walk through the farmer’s markets, there is always one stall using the shouting method: “for FIVE MINUTES only, ALL these LOVELY tomatoes FOR JUST THREE DOLLARS. FIVE minutes ONLY FOLKS, COME get your tomatoes…!”“ And on we go. Even from...

When you are out of time, you’d better start taking action. When you’re late to a meeting, behind on work, or when you run out of resources for your project, there’s no option except to innovate, to create urgency. The other side of the coin though is moving from capacity. Because there is opportunity to...

I just received an email from Medium, with a blog post on how to optimise your iPhone for productivity and longevity (link at bottom). As I glanced through it, I couldn’t help notice that many of the tips involve limiting the addictive nature of a lot of the apps and tools in the phone. As...

The word inspire can be traced back to the latin root word “inspirare,” meaning “to breathe into” or “to blow into.” Inspirare of course stems from spirare, meaning “to breathe.” Soon, we began to use the word figuratively. To breathe in, is to bring in the new, to inspire, to innovate. And to innovate, to...