On August 12, 1960, Green Eggs and Ham was published by Dr. Seuss. This has sold over 8 million copies world wide. The story was written in just 50 words, after a bet between Dr. Seuss and his publisher. The bet was that Dr. Seuss could not complete the book in 50 words or less.*...

“People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing and that’s why we recommend it daily.” – Zig Ziglar Motivation, personal energy, self belief, confidence, self love, attention… These are just a few that fall into this bucket that is seemingly riddled with holes. Here one moment, gone the next. An infinitely fruitful...

The “dirt” is the stuff that we speed over. It is the part of the conversation that we don’t like to go into. We shift the eye contact and move along to something else. We deflect with ease. By definition, to get to the dirt means to go below the outer level of worldly beliefs...

When the shortboard revolution came to surfing from the late 60’s to the early 80’s, it was not led by the current celebrated leaders, it was propelled by upstarts. When Facebook was created in dorm rooms, it wasn’t designed by scholars and celebrated acedemics. Before Biz Stone founded twitter, he had told his high-school teachers...

On Saturday Morning at 8am, my favourite coffee shop in Melbourne opens. Often, there’s a few people waiting outside at this time. I’m sure that the owner or barista doesn’t always feel like showing up. Maybe they had a big night on Friday.. Either way though, to open, to serve the best coffee around, is...

There are two ways to achieve this feat: 1 ) Train for the “one arm chin-up.” There are lots of popular methods that do this directly. 2 ) Bring a high level of “unilateral pull work” or a diverse range of “types” of pulling work into your practice. Attack it from a place of inquiry,...

Cultivating attention. Completing tasks with intent. What is happening here, right this very moment? Attention is the most direct route to cultivating personal power. When we can come back to this moment and this task, we accumulate power. When we are split, we dissipate personal power. Any action or tool that splits attention is reducing...

That tension and super busy mind you feel right when you wake up each day and start to think about work… That’s not normal. It’s not “bad,” it’s simply an adaptation to the stimulus that you put on the brain and nervous system. When we get “good” at thinking, solving problems and understanding new situations,...