I was sitting in San José international airport in Costa Rica. I was flying “standby” for a two week surf trip because my friend worked for Qantas (that trip is another story…). Anyway I looked up and saw some TV screens playing a triathlon. It was a replay of the Hawaii Ironman triathlon World Champs....
In some forms of strength training, to lift more weight, people can use all sorts of props. Special belts, special shoes, straps etc. If there is a weakness in the chain, we can layer on a solution. Culturally, there are a lot of people who are really against this approach, as it “ignores” the underlying...
Chris Anderson’s concept of the “long tail” described a revolution in the media business. This was a change from a small number of “hit” items selling in large volumes (The Beatles) to our current setup of a huge number of super-niche items selling in smaller volumes. The long tail concept was effectively fuelled by three...
The end of the morning yoga class, the start of day in which we can practice mindfulness The end of the month, the start of the new month of opportunity. The end of the weekend, the start of Monday morning where we can create. In running races, there’s a natural tendency to “push” hard up...
To work “out” is to expend energy, express capacity, to stimulate and to expand. If there are adequate resources*, this stimulus is the stimulus for growth, change and adaptation. To work “in” is to accumulate energy and to re-vitalise. While the stimulus sparks the adaptation, the “working in,” or the restorative process facilitates the adaptation....
I know a guy who was right there at the beginning of ultralight sailboat design. When they started creating fast, fiberglass boats instead of heavy, lagging timber hulls. He would literally “shape” the boat hulls by hand, by sight. He was a prototyper. He also designed the original O’Neill logo designed the original O’Neill logo....
First we focus on energy. Energy production, awareness, becoming your own power source. The Energy Generation module of the Access Potential Academy program has six components – Breath, Perception, Nourishment and then Urgency, Necessity and Impeccability. Half of these are focused more on the physiology – our body, our being. The other half though, are...
“You cannot be creative unless someone is pushing you off a cliff somewhere.” – Jozef Frucek, Fighting Monkey When your back is to the cliff, there is both urgency, and necessity. Urgency in that we have to act. Now. And necessity in that it’s of the highest priority. Life and death. There is also a...
