I am curious. Always have been. Curiosity is more than human; it’s how nature thrives. It is the powerful partner to fear, nature’s other survival urge. Curiosity prompts the question, ‘I wonder…. ‘ and leads to one place. The Unknown. I have to keep an eye on it, as curiosity goes wrong too. A child […]
Self-care
The load is great and there is no one with whom to share it. You lead and care for others and can’t abandon them. This is when self-care is a survival issue, not a feel-good issue. Self-care needs only moments but those moments are slow and quiet, so they look like doing nothing and feel […]
Inspiration
Is it enough to lead? Aren’t your followers thirsting for something more – for inspiration? Locked down and masked, breathing itself became a worry. Breathing freely not only in the real world but in everything. We want to let our emotions breathe, let our minds breathe. Inspiration (in-breath-ing) is a deep caress of the soul, […]
Opportunity
You have a choice. Grasp an opportunity when it turns up. Position yourself where opportunity is more attractive and likely. Create opportunity out of difficulty. You have preferences and abilities when it comes to opportunity and others may judge you on your approach. By being clear on how you want to act around opportunity, […]
Resilience
Challenges change us. We cope, but feel the edge of failure. It’s only after, in failure or success, but alive, that we can see how our resilience works. We need to draw breath and reflect. Reflection is when something new emerges to sight, the thing that our resilience ignited. Something that endures. Even as the […]
Renaissance
Covid lockdown time is flat time, disconnecting us from our past and our future. What have we been nurturing while cocooned in this flat time? Art. Art is bursting out. Art is our soul giving us the cure for flat time, for lost past and future. Art marks this moment, this Now in which we […]
Gratitude
Be grateful. Best to be slow with it. Slow enough to see afresh what’s already before you. All that you take for granted changes when you’re seeing clearly into everything to be grateful for. It’s what I see when looking over water, to the horizon, seeing the irresistible ebb and flow that have been the […]
Perfection
Some of us (Ok, me, and others like me…), were conditioned to believe that a perfect outcome is possible. Whatever the field, perfection is something we must strive for. It’s an idea that won’t go away. It’s the ideal twin to the other utopian world view – doom. Doom and perfection both drive us to […]
Decisions
Choice terrifies us, so the Existentialists tell us. It’s in there, with falling and freedom, an existential fear. Decisions need information and a process to a goal. When all is uncertain, we can’t see the goal and our old processes fail. Decisions feel impossible. Well, perfect decisions are impossible, but they always were. What does […]
Enough
Ten years ago Tony said to me, ‘I’ve decided to go for better, rather than more.’ Early in his career, my client had encountered a choice that many do not experience until much later. It boiled down to noting that he already had Enough. That was a tough insight, as he was neck deep in […]