When you sit for coffee with a friend and their phone blurts out alerts for the next 30 minutes it can be pretty distracting. We can pretend to not notice, but the shift of the eyes tells it all. We continue to chat. As a seperate discussion to what’s “appropriate” in this situation, what we’re...

I used to love watching the odd Seinfeld episode in the 90’s. My favourite part of any episode was when Kramer would enter the room. When I sat down to watch Seinfeld, I was there to laugh. I sat down with a bias. In fact, it could be argued that I laughed before I actually...

Who can I help, without needing a reason? Who can I lead, regardless of titles? Who can I share with, even if I want to grow myself? Who can I elevate, when I too crave to be seen? Who can I support, when I also need a hand? Who can I thank, even though they...

Strategy, planning and action seem to wrap up in organic sort of bundle that help us create change. Maybe we want to start a health or movement journey, maybe grow a business… Either way, we need to take our best shot at establishing “right action,” allocate this action to a person within a timeframe, and...

It turns out that I’m two degrees of separation from Chris Hemsworth, not just through one contact, but two. Two of my friends each have a friend who knows the famous actor… Through a hyper-connected culture, it’s likely that you too either have a friend of a friend who knows Mr. Hemsworth, or another star...

At 10pm last night I outlined an entire minute to minute timeline of today’s schedule. We were to start at 5am, get to a location for some filming by 6:15am, finish that job by 7:45am, get to another location until 9:30am, drive to the airport 5 hours away, all in time for a flight at...

We often look back in hindsight at a conversation we could have had, a way we could have helped someone, or an initiative we could have taken. In retrospect, it’s easy to see how we could have moved through a particular moment of tension and acted more generously. The hard part isn’t knowing what we...

She sits on the surface of the water, face down, with one hand on the yellow buoy. She relaxes her entire body, including her gaze, as she sights down the line which extends to the weight at the bottom of the sink-hole 20m below. She focuses inwards to her breathing. She completes a series of...