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. […]

Reimagining Curriculum

Reimagining Curriculum

There is a major problem with traditional education systems around the world that needs to be addressed. Let’s face it – there are numerous problems. Young people are becoming increasingly disconnected with what they are learning in schools. Employers are becoming increasingly dissatisfied with the readiness of young employees for the workplace. Teachers are becoming […]

Resonance

Resonance

There is a particular frequency of sound that creates greater results than you might expect from making an original noise. According to Wikipedia: ‘In physics, resonance describes when a vibrating system or external force drives another system to oscillate with greater amplitude at a specific preferential frequency.’ If the conditions are just right, a musical […]

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 […]

The Moment

The Moment

I can recognise in people’s eyes the moment that changes everything. That moment when the fear inside becomes less pressing than the desire to make a difference. I remember my own moment, just over 3 years ago, when the power of possibility and necessity burst through my own fear of stepping out into the world […]

The Silent Intervention

The Silent Intervention

There is great power in the void of silence. At times, it can be far harder to say or do nothing, than it is to say or do something. We are often too quick to react and to act, rather than just ‘let things be’. There is such a call  to take effective action in […]

The One-eyed World

The One-eyed World

We live in a one-eyed world. A planet where the simplistic self-centred view often takes hold. Where party politics polarise and news services divide us. I remember how I used to think about the world when I was growing up, and I shudder. I had a set of experiences that gave me a very narrow […]

One Candle

One Candle

This week, I turned 39. I have always found birthdays pretty odd – arbitrarily celebrating days because of a particular orbit of a particular planet around a particular star. In relation to everything else that’s happening in the universe, it is a pretty odd phenomenon, to be honest. As someone who tries to have a […]

2 years

2 years

It is just under two years since I publicly declared in a blog post that I was going to change the world. It is just under two years since I took the leap, left my comfort zone and lived up to what I am truly capable of. I wrote that post after completely rewiring how […]

The Inside Out

The Inside Out

Last week I was sent a great quote that I wanted to share and write about: “When I was a young man, I wanted to change the world. I found it was difficult to change the world, so I tried to change my nation. When I found I couldn’t change the nation, I began to […]