The world is becoming ever more complex to deal with. Each generation is connected to a much wider landscape than the generation before. The information explosion means that we have real-time access to everything that is going on everywhere in the world. The trouble is that our brains are just not wired for that kind […]
Leaping Towards Higher Purpose
By September 26, 2018 2 Comments
I’m fascinated by the distinction between people who follow their purpose and those who don’t. Over the years, I have managed to develop a specialism: finding ways to increase the number of people who make a choice to align with their higher purpose. My work is all about making this happen – particularly in Guernsey, […]
The 2 Dimensions of Consciousness
By September 19, 2018 8 Comments
I am usually quite careful how I share one aspect of my life. Speaking about it causes all sorts of different reactions, depending on the listener’s worldview. I have been on quite a journey in this area, and I appreciate that it can cause some discomfort for others. Nevertheless, it’s something I have been wanting […]
Building From Strengths
By September 12, 2018 3 Comments
Self-realisation, for me, meant accepting my strengths – and using them. This was a life-changing revelation to me. For a long time, people didn’t accept my natural tendencies and abilities as strengths – least of all, myself. From my school-days onwards, I was often criticised for finding the shortest route or quickest way to do […]
Problem-solving Networks
By September 5, 2018 Leave a Comment
Most new companies fail within the first few years. In this day and age, the chances of building an organisation that succeeds in its mission are quite low. I’ve always found this curious, and have been quite unaccepting of that fact, in my mentoring of entrepreneurs, over the years. With those odds against you, why […]
Minimum Viable Maslow
By August 29, 2018 2 Comments
This week sees the return of Burning Man – the outlier festival that builds a fully-working temporary city, as a model for human thriving. It’s all created out in the desert – where it’s quite a logistical challenge to thrive, anyway; you have to take everything you need with you, and be creative. The entire […]
Overcoming Inertia
By August 22, 2018 4 Comments
Remember all those things you said you would do, but didn’t get round to it? What are you continually thinking about, yet not acting upon? Are you finding it harder to get things done, as time goes by? Living in our world of infinite choice and infinite opportunity can be paralyzing. Choice is a paradox. […]
Exploring Limitlessness
By August 15, 2018 5 Comments
I’m fine with not knowing how to do something before I start doing it. In fact, that’s one of my strengths. For as long as I can remember, I have been very comfortable with ambiguity, and happy to set sail towards something, without knowing how I am going to get there. Initially, I didn’t know […]
Utter Irrelevance
By August 8, 2018 6 Comments
I remember the intensity of school and university: how the environment and everyone in it were in ‘do or die’ mode, regarding the qualifications to be gained at that time. Later on in life, I reflect that those moments really didn’t matter as much as my mind thought they did, then. The pressure came from […]
The Fallow Year
By August 1, 2018 9 Comments
One of the few things I remember learning at school was a land rotation technique that restores farming land by leaving it fallow. Continual farming of the same land in the same way gradually depletes its growing yield – unless it is left alone for awhile, to restore itself. This is an idea that’s always […]