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 […]
Permissionless Progress
By July 25, 2018 Leave a Comment
When we started The Dandelion Foundation, one unexpected realisation was that many people had ideas and answers for solving challenges in community, but they were waiting for permission (they didn’t need) to get started. Many people had no frame of reference for having an idea, and just making it happen. I grew up in an […]
Nodes In The Network
By July 18, 2018 5 Comments
When we launched The Dandelion Foundation 4 years ago, we were initially a high-profile organisation with a very public lobbying and communication strategy. One of our challenges was that new ideas and approaches often create a lot of noise and push-back. Operating publicly, there was a need to demonstrate results and go for ‘quick wins’ […]
Wellbeing Assisted Transformation
By July 11, 2018 2 Comments
One word that has become fashionable in modern times is ‘disruption’. The business world is talking about the disruption of old business models by new ways of doing things – and the difficulty of existing organisations in adapting, to make the transition from old to new ways. An often-used example is Kodak. This once-thriving market-leader […]
Engaged Indifference
By July 4, 2018 7 Comments
It was at the neurofeedback institute, Biocybernaut, that I first heard the phrase ‘engaged indifference’. There, I learnt that our emotional responses in the present are often a signal to the past – and that we can let go of these emotional attachments. Emotional attachments like frustration, anger, self-pity, or simply wanting things done a […]
Poacher Turned Gamekeeper
By June 27, 2018 Leave a Comment
‘Poacher turned gamekeeper’ is a phrase I remember from my childhood. It means someone whose behaviour is the opposite of what it used to be. As an activist and changemaker, over the years, I have learnt how resistant to persuasion people are, and how readily they will cognitively dismiss new ways of doing things, or […]
Ego Flipping
By June 20, 2018 1 Comment
Over the years, I have developed a technique that gets very quick results in terms of personal and collective transformation. I call it ‘ego flipping’. In short, it is a frame of thinking and subconscious reprogramming I have developed to get quick results, without requiring willpower or self-sacrifice. There’s nothing new about it, since it […]