One of my all time favorite speakers would often say, “Energy flows where attention goes!” It was a simple reminder that where we place our attention can make major differences in our experience of daily life. It’s worth remembering that modern media and advertising generates most of its revenue by encouraging you to focus upon...
At the end of our lives none of us are going to be lying there wishing we had more time at the office or doing jobs we hated. One of the great things about the human journey is the fact that for every one of us there are experiences, passions, interests that really light us...
Many people seem to think that the way to change the world is through government intervention, big corporate action or some other utopian plan. In this episode I want to make the point that far more often, it is the small acts that we undertake for others each day that can end up making the...
As we move along the path of life we can suddenly discover that so many of the dreams that we once longed for have slowly vanished along the way. Where do dreams come from? Why do we all have such different things that mean so much to us? Is letting go of dreams just part...
A vast grievance and therapeutic industry requires a vast number of people to believe that both their present and their future is hostage to their past. The essential narrative is that something happened to us years ago that now explains our present and predicts our future. It does not have to be this way. In...
When we are young, it is easy to think that all options are open and that there will always be time to make changes and find the life and purpose that we always expected would be our natural outcome. In today’s message we discover that both time and options are not unlimited. At some point...
In modern life it is easy to come to believe that there are powerful forces that shape so much of our daily experience. The massive overreach of government, the power of global corporations and the relentless manipulation of legacy media means we can often feel that there is so little we can do to shape...
Is there a greater power that shapes our daily lives than that of habits? Over hundreds of thousands of years humans have learned to automate large numbers of daily actions. Some of these serve a very useful purpose but some can easily hold us back and ensure we never experience the profound growth and contribution...
Some people have a unique gift to cut through all the complexity of an issue and give us the single idea that can help create major change and success in our lives. Michael Porter is a world famous academic who focuses on the way that strategy can move a business forward. He is the fairy...
On the journey of personal development and change there can be so many ideas and systems and strategies. One book says, “Do this!: and another book says, “Do That!” How can we filter out the noise and work out the things that really do work and help to create change in our lives? In today’s...
