When we look at the contribution pillar, the spreading of our work or ideas to assist or shift part of the culture, we have a few factors in play. Of course, there is our experience – do we have the background, the insights, to create the change? Do we have the ability – the courage,...
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...
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...
We have two possible futures when we set an appointment, book a class, or have a date with a friend. In the first, we follow the path of impeccability. Through being “on time,” we subconsciously remind ourselves of our personal power. We accumulate more personal power through the integrity of our word. In the second,...
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...
For the average human, the brain is about 2% of the total body weight, but uses about 20% of the total fuel (including a lot of glucose). There is almost always activity in the brain. It doesn’t really “rest.” The activity can be extrinsic, or “stimulus dependent,” or it can be intrinsic, or “stimulus independent.”...
In training, we can do “task priority” or “time priority” work. In “task priority,” we do a certain “task” until it’s done. For example, run for 5 kilometres. In “time priority,” we work for a certain amount of time. For example, run as far as you can in 20 minutes. In the physical domain, there...
In 2008 I worked as a sustainable building design engineer. Every once in a while, a concept design competition would come up and fortunately I was on the team that got to partake in such things. We would do the work on these in extra hours. They were a lot of fun. In this space,...
