Two and a half months ago we launched The Dandelion Project in Guernsey to make Guernsey the best place to live on earth by 2020. What has surprised me most since then is realising that one small thing can hold the world back more than anything else. It is the need for permission. We have […]
Moving from the Past to the Future
By May 28, 2014 8 Comments
One of my favourite community projects in the world right now is The Downtown Project in Las Vegas. I had the pleasure of going there last year, meeting the founder Tony Hsieh and hearing him speak of how he is building his community. The results they achieve in one of the least likely places on […]
The Self-directed Life
By May 21, 2014 20 Comments
My wife and I have just come back from visiting an outlier education facility called North Star Teens, in Hadley, Massachusetts. They are early pioneers in supporting young people to adopt a self-directed approach to learning. It is really amazing to see how these young people are thriving in ways that most normal young people […]
What is your Ikigai?
By May 14, 2014 177 Comments
According to the Japanese, everyone has an ikigai. An ikigai is essentially ‘a reason to get up in the morning’. A reason to enjoy life. Having spent most of the last few years helping dozens and dozens of entrepreneurs find their ikigai, whilst also searching for my own, I can now visualise where it belongs. […]
Moving from Economy to Lifeonomy
By April 30, 2014 10 Comments
I recently gave a talk to 100 people and asked them about to think about whether or not they would have any deathbed regrets. I also shared some recent research on the 5 most common deathbed regrets. They were as follows: 1. I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, […]
Let the Revolution Begin!
By March 24, 2014 11 Comments
Last week we asked 100 people an audacious question: ‘How can you make Guernsey the best place to live on earth?’ This week, we are getting on with the job of making it happen, by 2020. We are starting this movement with no idea of how we are going to get there. We are starting […]
Why We Are All Going Back to School
By March 12, 2014 32 Comments
I look at my almost 3 year old son and I see that he is already where he needs to be. For him, everything is fantastic! He lives in the moment, has no problem being himself, doesn’t care what anyone thinks, and he will try anything. The bottom line is – he loves life. Forget […]
The 1 thing I wish I had learnt before I started
By March 5, 2014 12 Comments
I often get asked, “What’s the best piece advice for those starting out?”. Usually I am not one for looking backwards. I am not one for regrets. I occasionally reflect on the past, but only to learn and move forwards. If I was leaving school or university right now, what would I say to steer […]
Bored Beyond Belief
By February 26, 2014 18 Comments
‘Bored Beyond Belief’ is the phrase I painfully scrawled on most of my folders at school. It was from a scene in my favourite Steve Martin movie – LA Story. Steve Martin wrote the phrase on a window during a period of utter boredom, living in a world that, deep down, did not connect with […]
Why Small Nations Can Change the World
By February 19, 2014 6 Comments
The outdated legislation and bureaucratic decision-making we face in the world today are major barriers to progress. There are good reasons for some of it, but compelling reasons to remove most of it. The answers to some of the biggest problems we face have already been solved – but government bureaucracy is holding them back. […]