“Mind,” because this is the driver of action, and the driver of change for a better culture. Without our own intelligence, there’s no new thought or ideas. “Body,” because this is our vessel. Our ability to actualise, mobilise and interact. “Strength,” because this is ability to move, or make movements, mentally and physically, over time....
In endurance training, you get all sorts of out of body experiences. Sometimes if you run yourself totally out of fuel, it’ll feel like your body is still running like an automatic skeleton, and you’re hovering above it. If you do a long enough meditation retreat, you can feel like you’re floating into the galaxy...
I clipped the top stair walking to the airport gate. It’s funny when you trip as an adult. You can both fall catastrophically, and not make any noise in the hope that the people around don’t stare at you too long… I got up, dusted myself off and kept walking, trying to figure out what...
In the fitness industry, there are a two terms to describe workouts. One is “time” priority – do XYZ movement for 20 minutes. See how much you get done. In your work, this could be I’m going to “write” for 60 minutes. Another is “task” priority – do this number of repetitions of XYZ movement,...
I’ve got a meeting booked tomorrow at the same café. The same café I go to almost any time I go to a café (pretty rare, but hey, Friday tomorrow – let the hair down right?). Heck, I’ve probably written about this place 20 times. Why? Well, there’s certainty, the ambience, the service, the way...
On a warm day in Summer last year, we sat with a guy in Bondi. 32 years old, and he’d just sold a company for 32 million dollars. But the company hadn’t grown easily… A while after he and his brother started it, they began to see some traction. But when this happened, he started...
A little while ago we were outside this restaurant, waiting to order… Our group was on the left, and another crowd was over to the right, spilling onto the street. In the next 20 minutes as we got our food, I saw six couples leave. They didn’t leave because of the wait time though –...
Is upside down. Feet over head, up in the air – fully committed to rotating. Once you’re on the ground at the end, you’re no longer in the backflip, you’re just resting before the next one. And when you’re on the ground at the start, you haven’t actually begun… If you’re in a small business...
