What do you do on the days your motivation tank is drained to empty, or when you just can’t get excited about doing anything. On some of these days I do think actually doing next to nothing is okay. Maybe you needed the rest to recharge your batteries. But having too...

The New Year is now not quite so new, and the newsfeed is filling up with all sorts of, well, shall we say different and interesting things. My guess is that ‘things’ will only get stranger and more chaotic the further we move into 2025. So how do you keep your feet...

One of the best-selling video games of all time, The Sims was released 25 years ago this week. If you don’t know, The Sims is a life simulation game. You create a character, manage their moods, and help them to satisfy their desires. You build them a home, help them...

Justin Trudeau the long serving Canadian Prime Minister resigned this week. Just before he stepped in front of his podium to tell the nation about his decision, his notes blew away. Unperturbed he carried on without them. How would you have reacted if that had...

The winter solstice is almost upon us. It was revered in Neolithic times, Newgrange in Ireland is aligned to the sunrise, and Stonehenge is aligned to the sunset on the winter solstice. It was also celebrated in Rome, but on 25th December. Which was just a few days...

I recently read 30 Lessons for Living by Karl Pillemer. He is an American sociologist and gerontologist. In the 2000s he conducted in depth interviews with 1,800 older Americans. As the title of his book suggests he gleaned a lot of advice from these life experts....

This month sees the 165th anniversary of the publication of Charles Darwin’s book, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. In 1831 a 22-year-old Darwin set off on a five-year voyage to circumnavigate the globe on HMS Beagle, surveying the world’s flora...

Over the recent weeks I have been working on a new spiritually based training. There is still much work to do on this and it may, of course, never see the light of day. This is what the creative process is like sometimes. Not everything you work on will come to...

A friend of mine is a highly experienced coach, trainer, and facilitator. He is ex-military and previously held a senior coaching role in UK sport. Recently he shared some important insights with me. He said, that achieving in a high-performance environment requires...

Last week a friend of mine put my two recent Blogs about simplicity into an Artificial Intelligence (AI) tool to create a spoken podcast episode based solely on the text. What it produced was amazing. Two ‘people’ chatted on the podcast, they sounded natural and...