I’ve been reading Seth Godin’s latest book, This is Marketing, it’s good, you should get it.

One of the main questions he asks in the book is,

Here’s an interesting fact, back in the day, when missionaries used to travel by ship to the other side of the world they only bought a one way ticket and a coffin.

I write these emails first thing in the morning, usually around 5:30.

I do this because I want to

The last double edge sword quality that we find in a warrior is her motivation.

The second double edged aspect of the warrior, is control, and specifically control of the self.

The image here is of a Khoisan hunter crouching for hours,

Anne Lamott, one of my favorite authors, said in her TED talk that one of the things that she knows for sure in her life is

Over the holidays I received a small book as a gift, it was my birthday…

There is a great line in The Hobbit, when Gandalf is talking to Bilbo about going on an adventure with the dwarfs. You see, Bilbo was not only a Baggins, there was Took on his mother’s side, and the Tooks were adventurers.

In a recent article in HBR, it stated that organisations now need to move from building Minimum Viable Products, to Minimum Virtuous Products.

In a volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous, VUCA, world the demand is for integrity, transparency and virtue.

I’ve been musing lately about the speeches and the actual physical movement of the civil rights protestors under the leadership of Martin Luther King jr.

Thomas De Quincey call it the formidable curse of life, taedium vitae - the tedium of life. In other words the ordinariness of life, boredom. Boredom is the least tolerable of human states.

Here is a little jewel I picked up, you expand by relaxing. It seem counterintuitive almost, but makes complete sense when you think about. If you want more, wider, bigger, then relax.

Yesterday was rough, people close to us’ son passed away. He was just a few days old. The day before

At the beginning of the year I always want to decide what I want to be, not so much what I want to do.

The question that I have been asking myself over the last two months is do I want to be safe, or do I want to be strong?

Happiness is largely dependent on our circumstances, let’s face it. More specifically this often elusive feeling of contentment is based on feeling safe, filled, secure, having enough.

Our shadow selves, the side of us that we like to believe we are not like, but in fact we are.

Here is something that I picked up lately, and it has had a major effect on my mood, and mental health. It took a while to get right, but once it got going it is hard to stop.

“The gods seem to think that we have a choice” - Anon