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Cultivate silence to focus
Our world gets interrupted on average every 10 minutes by notifications and whatever we’re focusing on is reprioritised. We pickup our phone about 40 – 150 times a day. That’s not focus. We’re being owned by a device. It’s said that any interruption of flow or your daily work, then requires 40 minutes to get…
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Leading with compassion and kindness
If you’ve ever been triggered by someone, a situation or the events in the world, you likely experienced how hard it can be sometimes to bring yourself back to calm. These tips may help you in future. A few tips: Bring down your shield of compassion and kindness. I’m not sure how you picture these…
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Hiding your intelligence is a skill
Always knowing everything and letting people know you know, will make you a smart person in the room. Let people underestimate you. You don’t want to be the smartest in the room, you won’t learn a great deal. If people know you’re clever, they’ll seek you out and you’ll be busy teaching rather than learning.…
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A small energy exchange
There’s a neighbourhood boy that lives with his family around the corner from me. I first saw him more than 10 years ago when he was playing out in the street and we waved as I passed by. We’ve continued the neighbourly wave over time. He plays footy out in the street, I drive by…
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The freedom of letting go
Learning to let go is such a useful skill and yet it’s often not easy. I think it’s one aspect of life that is a continual challenge met over and over. With objects I have this internal struggle of keeping waste, leftovers or extras unused portions for later use. The reality is, they largely don’t…