Attitude and Mindset Must Be Chosen Every Day

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 […]

What I Learned About Gratitude In Hospital

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 […]

How To Improve Time and Energy Management In Your Life

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 […]

The Two Forces You Need To Understand To Change Your Life

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 […]

The Important Power You Should Never Surrender

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 One Big Question To Reduce Stress In Your Life

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 […]

What I Learned on Yesterday’s 185km bike ride

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 […]

The Reason You Can Never Be A Failure and The Importance Of Time

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 […]

Why You Don’t Need To Overcome Every Fear

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? […]

Creating Luck and Executing When It Happens

Hi everyone, after another four week US speaking tour I’ve just got back to Australia and I’m ready to get back into the daily podcast. Flying from Honolulu to Sydney on the way home I watched a brilliant new movie called Danger Close starring the Australian actor Travis Kimmel. This led me to check out […]