Jan 11Member-onlyThe Real Truth About Strength & ResilienceAssailed from all corners and needing a bit “extra”, more resilience and strength sounds good, doesn’t it? Wait up. It’s not that simple. Here are 5 watch-outs you need to understand about resilience and strength before you start getting at it. 1. Don’t be bulletproof You might think being resilient is about becoming less…Strength2 min readStrength2 min read
Jan 1Member-onlyThings Will Get Crazier — So How Will You Show Up in 2023?Things Will Get Crazier — So How Will You Show Up in 2023? 2022 was to years what feeding after midnight is to Mogwai. What Bankman-Fried was to sound business strategy. What handsy-Uncle Larry is to a family get-together. It was, to put it bluntly, a shitshow. On a personal…Challenge2 min readChallenge2 min read
Nov 23, 2022Member-only4 Ways to Counter Your KryptoniteFootball is my kryptonite. If a bad man was holding my family hostage and said he’d only release them if I kicked a ball into the back of a net or explained the off-side rule, I’d fold quicker than Superman on laundry day. I can’t catch a ball. My running…Weakness2 min readWeakness2 min read
Nov 7, 2022Member-onlyThe 3 Ultimate Signs of MaturityThose of you who know me will know that I’m really just a big kid, and I hope I never lose that. But life continues to teach me lessons, so even though I still play video games, love superhero movies and laugh at the silliest stuff, I have to recognise…Confidence4 min readConfidence4 min read
Oct 28, 2022Member-onlyThe Proof In Your PuddingI’m a HUGE foodie. If foodies were people, I’d be China. And I’ve spent the last few months indulging in some of the finest food porn available. The grand finale of the latest season of MasterChef Australia just aired (which makes the UK version look like “Chimps Make Toast”), and…Confidence4 min readConfidence4 min read
Oct 25, 2022Member-only3 Rules of Being ResilientWith everything we’ve gone through these last couple of years, and from the looks of what we’re having to deal with for the foreseeable future, it feels like resilience is needed more than ever. Resilience is the thing we try to get more of to help us deal with all…Resilience3 min readResilience3 min read
Sep 18, 2022Member-only8 Home Truths About Quiet QuittingIt won’t have escaped your notice that quiet quitting is the latest topic that people just won’t be quiet about. Like the blue dress/gold dress or pineapple on pizza, everyone has a point of view and opinions are split. So I’d like to help. For years I’ve worked with employees…Leadership8 min readLeadership8 min read
Apr 3, 2020How to Stay Sane in a Crazy, Covid WorldPeople staying home and working from home. People laid off. People in isolation. People at risk. People suffering. People caring. People zooming. People scared. People helping. All kinds of people, trying to deal with this as best they can. I’m adapting to this new world myself. I’m in the at-risk…Coronavirus5 min readCoronavirus5 min read
Jan 17, 2020Member-only5 Big, Bad Habits That Keep Fucking You UpYou’re pretty complicated, you know that? Full of contradictions, quirks and nuance, there’s a lot going on in that brain of yours. Some of that stuff won’t be doing you any harm at all, but there are certain habits that will keep messing with your head, rolling over your self-confidence…Confidence5 min readConfidence5 min read
Oct 31, 2019You’re a Giant, Cosmic Accident30 seconds after the big bang (around 13.75 billion years ago), the entire universe was smooth and uniform, having expanded and stretched exponentially due to something called the inflation field. The universe didn’t really know how things worked back then, and tiny quantum fluctuations meant that some parts of this…Science6 min readScience6 min read
