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...
Martha Nussbaum is a philosopher at the University of Chicago and thinks deeply about the experience being human. In today’s episode she reminds us that there is a risk in pursuing the wrong goals in life and then waking up one day to discover that your life seems empty and without meaning. According to Martha...
We live in a culture that focuses powerfully upon consumption and accumulation. It seems that the goal of life is to get as much ‘stuff’ as possible. It can mean money to some people, power to others and fame to someone else. The truth about our lives is that we take nothing with us when...
I’ve recently been teaching world history to my kids and it is incredible to discover the wisdom of some of the greatest men and women who have gone before us. In today’s episode I want to share with you a profound insight from Phillip II of Macedon who was the father of Alexander the Great....
The Roman poet Horace was a man familiar with hard times. Despite the growth and power of the empire this was still a world of suffering and hardships. In our modern world we have a much easier life in many ways but it comes at a cost. The cost is that so many of us...
