Not with your job title. Not with someone else’s idea of you. But finding alignment within yourself. When we have a match between our inner world – how we want to live – our purpose, our mission, our essence, and our outer world – how we are actually living – our actions, our speech… we...

When you start exercising, there’s an age-old idea that you can only increase your load (or volume) a couple of percent per week. It takes the body time to adapt to the new stimulus – if you were to go all out and increase your load by 50% in 3 weeks, you are going to...

The “Resistance” is the term that was coined by Steven Pressfield for the force that opposes us when we are trying to do good work, and in particular, create new work. Maybe you want to lose some weight, but something pops up that stops you going to the gym – that’s the resistance. Maybe you...

Ok, “hustle” first. Let’s zoom out and look at the actual goal. Usually, this involves getting some sort of meaningful project completed. Along the path, we find there’s certainly going to be some serious work involved. Usually more than most people think. There has to be hard work, it simply isn’t easy to create change....

Luna the Staffordshire Bull Terrier can overheat when she walks in Summer… She’s short, has dark fur, is ridiculously muscular and basically just dense. She gets so excited to be out romping in the park collecting sticks, that she loses her ability to regulate temperature well. It’s rarely a concern, but she always comes back...

When I was 18, I did a trip back to French Polynesia, where I was born. I went alone, and had a couple of surfboards especially for this trip. There’s a text-book right hand reef break that’s literally the kind of wave I would draw when I was young in the back of my school...

Yvon Chouinard is one of my heroes. A hero for me is usually someone I haven’t met, but I devour their work. My intent is to understand a little more clearly how they see the world. From what I can tell, they embody qualities that I aspire to cultivate. Sure, he has built Patagonia into...

The other day I met Wayne, who can juggle 5 balls, in multiple patterns, with ease. He’s an unassuming, relaxed chap, wearing some tennis shoes and an old t-shirt. About 50 or so. He’s focused, but smiles while he creates his art. When we see Wayne do this out of the blue, or maybe a...