It’s important to put your stuff out to the world. An idea, a journal entry, or a dream is great, but moving forward starts when you press “publish.” Then you slowly learn to seperate the “creator” from the “created.” You learn not to judge yourself by how the work lands. We can chip away at...

I got a note from a friend the other day who just moved over to NZ. Sold her house, debt free, has no real liabilities and has a pretty diverse skillset. She asked a question… “What would you do with a clean slate?” “If you could start again right now, what would you do?” When...

In 2011, I went to see a sports physio with an achilles injury. I was doing a lot of cycling and running – my right achilles was playing up. I walked in, and he looked over my legs, my calves, my feet. He did some prodding around, prescribed some new shoes, and gave me a...

“You do you” means embrace your individuality. Your idiolect. Your own style and your story. But “you do you” doesn’t mean ignore the people in front of you. It doesn’t mean don’t listen to what the people you want to help are saying. And it definitely doesn’t mean wing it and it’ll all work out,...

We’ve been taught that we’re in the attention economy. And we are. In a saturated market, whoever holds the most attention will usually win. Over time though, the result of this is that we’re getting slammed with so much incoming information that we “guard” our attention more than ever before. We put up a shield...

“Energy is Eternal Delight” – William Blake. In animals and organisms, we usually see exploratory behaviour alongside youthfulness and health. It could be music, playfulness, publishing creative work, social engagement or continued learning. On the flip side, we see lack of engagement, hibernation or reclusiveness as a sign of winter, slowing metabolic rate or poor...

There are two easy ways to create turbulence in fluid flow. One is to increase the speed – or how fast it’s all moving. If you ramp up the speed, you’ll create turbulence as the fluid interacts with the environment. The other way is to change the shape of the object the fluid is flowing...

A friend rang up last week – he’d just walked out of a job. But… he also needed the cash he just walked away from. Bills to pay, and a few months before a new job kicked off. He had to bridge the gap. I remember doing this once leaving a corporate job. A bit...