Time for a cheesy list of some of the things that can make us feel like heroes in the movies of our lives. Why? Because – in the bastardized words of Kurt Cobain – wanting other heroes to rescue us ...
Is travel a meaningful pursuit of itself? I think we both know the answer is ‘no’. Nothing is meaningful by itself. Not even things like having children. The fact that many of us find travel and having children meaningful is ...
I do enjoy a quality self-help book. Here’s a list of those I loved lately (hover over titles for a link to the book). You can access earlier nominees here and here. Ego is the Enemy, Ryan Holiday. (Article about the ...
We should all probably become aware how we characteristically respond to confrontation and criticism. Each throws light on fairly weighty aspects of our psyches; our self-worth, for example. They’re also a fairly reliable predictor of our ability to establish and ...
Losing isn’t the most welcome of things. I’m not talking about the current trend of ‘failing upwards’: failures that eventually (inevitably) turn into bigger successes. I just mean losing full stop. The irrevocable kind of loss. Public losing can be ...
Luck is real – as much as the highly self-critical don’t want to admit it. We tend to see luck as an indulgence, wanting to take responsibility for everything. ‘A person makes their own luck,’ I used to think. Clearly, it ...
The upper limit problem is from Gay Hendricks’s book, The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level. It’s all about our tendency to self-sabotage during peak moments in our careers and relationships. Having upper ...
The meditation teacher Sharon Salzberg talks of love having both ‘near and far enemies’. It isn’t just love that has such enemies; other states emblematic of a fulfilling life do too. For most of us, the near enemies are more ...
It’s obvious, but other people do not cause us to feel angry, irritated, upset. We do it to ourselves. A person could have done the most annoying thing in the world and, although our primary instinct might be hostility, as ...
I don’t recall the exact moment when my 29 year-old self booked onto education and personal transformation program, the Landmark Forum. I do remember that there was nothing specifically wrong with my life. My largest problem was me. I had ...
