Benjamin Franklin is someone who knew a great deal about adversity and facing hard times. His example of courage and determination in the face of existential threats is powerful. In today’s message we explore an insight from Franklin that reminds us that it is often in the hardest times when hope is hard to find...
Mark Twain is one of the great writers of American history and possessed a powerful insight into human nature. In today’s message re helps us realise that we must always seek to surround ourselves with positive people who see the best in us and want the best for us. Often, we settle for relationships and...
Most people go through their life deeply hypnotised by the belief that it is their circumstances that shape their experience of life. In today’s message we gain an insight from Stephen Covey that the real magic comes from realising that it is always our choices and decisions and not our circumstances that create our experience...
The greatest enemy you face is within. Fear is the force that shapes so many of our choices. If you look back into your life so far you will, like most of us, see so many times when fear stopped you from stepping into the life that was waiting for you. In today’s episode we...
I can’t deny that I struggle with virtue signalling. Adding a hashtag to your social media accounts about the latest global issue is going to become more and more challenging because it seems the issues we need to care about seem to shift on an almost deeply basis. What if, before we gave our energies...
When life is tough it is so easy to identify any external issue and make it the reason we are unhappy. It will always be easier to find a cause outside ourselves for the hardships and challenges of our life. There are so many candidates. We can blame the economy, the government or our childhoods...
Remember when you were young? Your dreams and goals lived within you in full colour and it seemed only a matter of time until you were enjoying all you had imagined? Somehow, on the journey of life we can lose connection with the things that once gave us so much passion and energy. In today’s...
How good would it be if you could radically simplify your life by finally identifying the essential reasons you have been placed on this planet? We spend so much time trying to perfect things we were never meant to perfect. Today’s message is all about the radical idea that there just might be something you...
It’s understandable that when things are tough we can easily convince ourselves that the issue is external and real. When life really challenges us it makes sense that we blame anything but our perception. In today’s episode we focus upon the greatest inconvenient truth in our lives. It’s the truth that we can do much...
One of the great challenges that we face in modern life is the process of shifting our focus off what other people may be achieving or experiencing and learning to focus more upon how we can maximise our own individual strengths and abilities. Grab a free copy of my book Bridging the Gap here: https://go.jonathandoyle.co/btg-pdf
