Daily Letter

A short, daily burst of inspiration in fewer than a 100 words.

  • "A thought-provoking collection of ideas and musings that if taken to heart, have the potential to add immense depth and richness (with compounding interest) to your life"

    Shane Dryden, co-founder Yuppiechef

  • "Not once have I been sorry that I signed up for Pierre’s newsletter 😁"

    Nerine

  • "Getting this letter is a breath of fresh air amongst the sea of emails in my ever-growing inbox each day. It’s the one I excitedly click to open, waiting to see what image will load accompanied by an insight into Pierre’s wonderful strategic brain."

    Mireille

  • "It delivers a daily dose of thought-provoking insights that encourage you to pause, reflect, and ask new questions – a powerful boost for advancing my personal strategy!"

    Ronel

  • "If you want to be reminded how to be a decent human in just a few sentences, then this is it."

    Ronel H

  • “Pierres’ Daily Letter has become the weekday spark of inspiration, motivation and perspective for me. To me his letters serve as a reminder to not turn my rhythms into routine, but to stay intentionally present in every day”

    Jacobs

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It's also just a job...

Where is meaning located?

Lately society, myself included, wants everyone to find meaning within their work…

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the most misquoted person...

Like most I love a good quote, especially an Einstein quote.. it's just that most things that get attributed to Einstein he either never said, or never said in that way.

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get lost

My favourite discipline, practice, or routine is one that is designed to break just that.

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do nothing.

We live in a culture that values taking action and for good reason, action trumps everything or just about everything.

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Taking care of ants...

Have you ever taken care of a baby bird? Have you done it multiple times, even though its chances of survival are slim to none?

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and it's ... GONE...

I've been doing this practice* for the past week or so

It's called GONE.

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First things first

What is the thing you need to do that will make today a good day? In other words, when you get into bed tonight and think back on today, what would make you go,

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I didn't survive, I ...

When Tony Robbins asked Nelson Mandela how he survived all those years in prison, his answer surprised.

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10 seconds

Are you familiar with a loving-kindness meditation?

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A Metcon of a Meditation session

I had a really crappy meditation session this morning. My mind was all over the place, I rewrote this email about 20 times in my head, did our monthly budget, rearranged about three to-do lists... 

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Posture

What is your posture towards the world, how are you placed in relationship to it and everyone in it?

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When is big enough, big enough?

I'm reading Eugene Peterson's Under the Unpredictable Plant at the moment and in it, he talks about organisational growth. I'd thought I'd share the basic idea here, it is quite profound.

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"We just declared fame."

I once hear Lady Gaga say in an interview that she and her friends just decided one day to declare fame, that's it.

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