In October 2009, I stepped off the plane in Hawai’i, on the big island. I was going to race in an Ironman triathlon there 10 days later, and I had gotten there early to try and get “used” to the weather differences. The shift in heat and humidity from Sydney was startling. Back in those...

Hyper positive feedback is disproportionately used. While it’s nice to receive this kind of praise from your Auntie Mary, if you’re trying to create great work, it really doesn’t help that much at all. Real feedback on the other hand can amplify our work. This is generous. Real feedback encourages us to go further in...

If you’re not getting traction in something, there are two places to look. One is the commitment. Are you showing up to the gym? Are you putting in the work? Are you actually doing the marketing work? Can you show me your sales board? The other is the skillset. If the work is being done,...

When I was 12, we were getting ready to sail the boat from Auckland to Fiji. The trick is to wait for a “weather window” – a time when you can hopefully shoot the gap between weather systems and have somewhat favourable conditions. In this first trip, we picked a time, left, and then got...

On Monday we grabbed a smoothie from Acai Brothers in Noosa. It was a hot, humid Queensland day – the young kid behind the counter said that they were busy for a Monday. While we pondered the menu and talked about a couple of options, I could see him watching excitedly and pre-filling the order...

“Shoot for the stars, and if you miss you’ll hit the moon.” This notion of course, is filled with possibility and is great in theory. The hiccup tends to come when we humanise the situation. It turns out that when we start to really push, we have a perception challenge. The fact is, if we’ve...

To be generous, is to call a friend to open the door for someone to compliment someone to allow others to express to write your thoughts to challenge someone to do their best to add to the conversation to respond not react to be present But what if it doesn’t work? What if they don’t...

You can play two games. One is the game of convenience. You build something that delivers what we want faster, smoother, cheaper and closer. Amazon, Netflix, F45, the one day business marketing workshop. Often, this wins. There is another path though. You can decide to create something longer, more impactful, often less convenient, but more...