A point of frustration. Should you stop? Should you quit? Particularly relevant in current times. The present self might say yes, and, often does. If you have a particular goal however, your future self doesn’t care how frustrated you are. In fact, it might even prefer the tension, because if you walk away – if...

I could see off in the distance two small figures bouncing up and down on the side of the road. I was driving toward the beach at the time, just before sunset. I got closer, I could see it was two teenagers dressed up in uniforms, and were holding big discount signs for a takeaway...

Where my parents live in NZ, there’s a park with a few trailer-boats lined up. When their owners go fishing, they just hook up the boat and head down the boat ramp. Mostly mid-90’s boats, a bit of fading paint. Yellow awning on one… And then there’s the boat plane. This is a small boat...

On Thursday my wife walks back in after a coffee date with her friend. She had that walk on that tells me she’s got something to say. “You’ll love this.” I look up, and wait for it. She knows I love stories of small biz and in particular cafés (if you’ve read my blogs, this...

Between where you are, and where you thought you’d be right now. Not worse, not better, just different. A lateral gap, not a vertical. We can look at it in two ways – one is we fell short, we didn’t have the strength, or, we lacked certain attributes. The other way to look at it...

When I opened a gym in ’14, I thought the trainers or owners who did the best were the ones who were the fittest, could do all the skills and who knew the most. It wasn’t a conscious thing, but I put the strongest, most flexible and knowledgeable people on a pedestal. I figured naturally...

This morning I had a 6:05am flight from Melbourne to Newcastle. I was staying in Belgrave, about an hour away from the airport. So I wake up to my alarm at 3:45, jump in the rental car, and arrive at the off-site car rental depot at 5:00. Perfect timing, we are about a 6 minute...