What to do when we’re wanting to solve seemingly intractable global challenges? This social entrepreneur showed me which domino to move first…
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It sometimes looks as if life would be better if we could find the perfect solution, the perfect system at work, the perfect system of governance, the perfect place to live.... But life is more like an infinite library—there is no one book that has all the answers. Or is there? What if all the books actually do give the same answer? What then?
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As we head towards a deadline that no-one seems prepared for, I’ve become curious about the reactions of my friends and family. What if the world isn’t as bleak as it sometimes look? And what if we have more agency than we think?
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What if we didn’t set ourselves up for an imagined future with so many expectations about how it was going to turn out. Big and small, here are some of the questions I’ve asked myself recently…
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It’s easy to find ourselves slipping into judgement, to find someone’s behaviour strange because it doesn’t match our own. But what exists beyond the judgment? Can we see something more loveable?
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We don’t see it, until we see it, but taking ourselves too seriously can be heavy work! Click to read more to explore the nature of seriousness and the much preferable joy of lightness…
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When something comes along to knock us off our stride, we try our hardest to right ourselves. It can look as if we’re battling a hurricane and, sometimes, we get a glimpse that it’s a storm in a teacup. But what if…
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When something comes along to knock us off our stride, we try our hardest to right ourselves. It can look as if we’re battling a hurricane and, sometimes, we get a glimpse that it’s a storm in a teacup. But what if…
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It can look as if someone else is the cause of ALL of our bad feeling—and the world certainly looks like that to me sometimes! But here’s why it isn’t as personal as we think—or maybe it’s because we think that it becomes (paradoxically) personal…
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We’re reluctant to turn back once we’ve started out on a path but here’s why it might make sense and why none of it matters as much as we think…
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I joined a gym last month for the first time in, oh, let’s just say quite a few years! Here’s what’s been interesting about the experience and what it means for creating (and sticking with) good habits.
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Even when we think we should be happy, we don’t always feel it. Here’s how that happened to me when I thought about how to be happy, and what I saw as a result…
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It’s amazing how the things that occur to us to do are the things that need to be done, and those that don’t, well don’t need to be done! Don’t believe me…
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There’s an analogy in the coaching world that we’re always course-correcting that sounds very plausible. But is it true? And what if we’re can’t get ‘off-track’ because there’s no track to begin with… Curious?
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If trying to manage money is like trying to catch water with a sieve, what they are our best strategies and tactics? Or should we be looking at the money question entirely differently?
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There’s a gulf of difference between things that appear ‘hard’ to me, and things that are ‘easy’, mindless almost, that get done without me noticing. What makes it so and how can we make it all ‘easy’?
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Most of us get that intentionality = good and inflexibility = bad. Or at least that’s the way it looks. But what if that wasn’t the way it worked when it comes to achieving the big things in life?
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When you’re looking for more clarity in life, those are the moments when it seems most out of reach. In this free audio series, I answer my readers’ most burning questions about how to get more clarity in life and at work. I hope you enjoy…
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There’s a brilliant scene in the latest Johnny English movie that reflected a reality deeper than the one portrayed in the film. Are we living in a real world, or a virtual reality world?? And how to know the difference?
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Why is so much activism born out of anger? Is it effective? Some would say yes. But is there an alternative view and what can that teach us?
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