I recently read the important book called The Courage To Be Disliked. Its main idea is extremely controversial because it basically rejects the idea that trauma and suffering in our life have a powerful impact on our present and future. In today’s podcast I want to talk about the idea of reframing trauma and finding...
To be honest the vast majority of people allow their attitude and mindset to be controlled by the environment and circumstances around them. It’s incredibly easy to come to believe that how we feel and what we think are driven by external forces rather than something we choose. The hard truth is that attitude and...
As many of you know I was involved in a bad accident last week. Before and after the surgery I had some pretty intense moments where I began to reflect upon how incredibly easy it can be to believe you will be happy when you reach some distant point in the future. Meanwhile, we lose...
Today’s episode is a great response to a listener question. What do we do when we know that managing our time and energy is important but we just feel very depleted of both? When life is full of busyness and stress how can we find a way to access the energy we need and how can...
Last week I watched a brilliant documentary about the planets of the solar system and the amazing men and women who have created the technology that makes it possible to study them. The ability to leave the gravity of Earth did not happen by accident. These people understood two important principles that have changed our...
You only have to spend a few moments in heavy traffic or a couple of minutes on Twitter to discover that otherwise normal people can lose their minds at the slightest thing. We seem to be living in a new cultural moment where small things can cause major problems and see people massively over-responding to...
The pace of modern life means that so many of us can end up feeling stressed, worn out, short-tempered or worse. Does it have to be this way? In today’s episode I want to share with you a very simple question that can really change how you filter the many demands that make up your...
Yesterday I woke up at 2am and drove two hours in the dark to start at 185km bike race in near freezing temperatures! Today’s podcast is all about how events like this teach us that there lies within us so much capacity and potential that we rarely use. I want to share some ideas with...
More than any other culture in history we suffer under the burden of comparison. No matter how much we achieve it’s easy to fall back into comparing ourselves to others. It’s amazing how many people feel like failures regardless of what they accomplish. In this episode I want to deal with the issue of failure...
It’s easy to feel that we should all be able to step up to our fears and overcome them. Much personal development literature seems to suggest that if we follow a simple series of steps then personal freedom is just around the corner. However, what if there are some fears we don’t need to beat?...
