Parking Tickets and Broken Computers

Parking Tickets and Broken Computers

If two situations can provoke rage and frustration more than most, they are: receiving a parking ticket, and when a piece of technology breaks down. For some reason, these actions evoke puzzling levels of emotional response in us, considering that they involve inanimate objects. I wonder how these items manage to stir up such emotion. […]

Redefining The Edge

Redefining The Edge

On June 30th, we launch our boldest mission yet. We aim to inspire and engage a nation to become the first country in the world to surpass 100-years life expectancy for our residents – within 10 years. We continually seed bold missions in our community. Although we believe that whatever we set out to achieve […]

The Journey to 100

The Journey to 100

What is it, to live a long and healthy life? Mark Twain famously said “The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” I remember the day I found my ‘why’. It was November 4th, 2010. I had an epiphany – creating such […]

Dream Big, Little One

Dream Big, Little One

These four words are on display in our house, and serve as a constant reminder to our two young boys to ‘dream big’. It also serves as a constant reminder to me –  to not tread on the dreams of my children. In a limitless world, I try to beware of inadvertently saddling my children […]

Believe

Believe

When I am speaking on stage, I often wear a shirt that says: ‘Believe’. Most of my work in the world involves getting people to believe in what they can achieve. One of my strengths is believing in the impossible, and I try to pass that belief on to others. My times at the neuroscience […]

The Best Place to Live on Earth

The Best Place to Live on Earth

Just over 3 years ago, my co-founder, Jock, and I first conceived the project to make Guernsey the best place to live on earth by 2020. We were having coffee outside, by the sea, on a beautiful day, observing people walking to and from their workplaces, ignoring the wonder of what was around them. Both […]

Letting It Flow

Letting It Flow

Most mornings, I walk my faithful hound along beside a stream, towards a field of dandelions. Daily, it is a therapeutic and life-resetting journey for me. The stream serves as a constant reminder to go with the flow, rather than swimming against the current. Following this principle is key to our project to make Guernsey […]

And

And

‘And’ is such a small word – and yet so powerful. It has so much more positive energy and connection than its close neighbour ‘but’. The word ‘but’ is obstructive and divisive. It negates all that goes before it. ‘I can see your point, but…’ ‘And’ is a connector. Looking at all the division in […]

Healing Money

Healing Money

A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of spending 4 days in the outlier community Tamera in Portugal, at a conference that talked about money and its impact on people and the world. On the surface, it appears that a big financial divide exists between the haves and have nots, and that division seems […]

A New Chapter

A New Chapter

I haven’t written a blog post for a while, so this will be a long one! So far, this year has been an incredible ending to what I can only describe as the first chapter of my true life. By ‘true life’, I mean my life now, standing up for what I believe in, after […]