“Destitutus ventis, remos adhibe”
25th July 2025 I love this Latin proverb that means “If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.” Life is never going to be about tailwinds alone, everyone gets to experience one’s share of headwinds in our journey. There will be challenges, and the need to shift to Plan B. The most successful […]
‘Self Talk’
24th July 2025 We all have an internal dialogue that runs 24/7. The quality of that internal dialogue has a real, tangible impact on your interaction with the external world. If you tell yourself over and over again that you aren’t capable of something, you will believe it to be true. You won’t try. If […]
Am I doing enough?
20th July 2025 Someone recently shared this with me: “I have this productivity anxiety that everyone else is working harder than me and I’am going to be left behind because I’am not working fast enough, long enough and I’am wasting my time” Doesn’t this shine a light on the behavior so many of us exhibit—even […]
Via Negativa – Subtract, Subtract, Subtract
18th July 2025 I remember, I read somewhere that we spend the 1st half of our lives adding things, and the 2nd half subtracting most of them. As I cross another year, I realize that the answer to most of our problems is indeed found in subtraction, not addition. Bruce Lee got it dead right […]
Leave it to him
16th July 2025 Whenever someone asks me, ‘What should you ask for in prayer from God,’ I am reminded of a story: A king was once roaming the streets of the city as part of an annual religious procession. He saw that some people looked happy while others looked tense and forlorn. The king suddenly […]
Action Bias
15th July 2025 Prioritizing action over inaction, without sufficient reasoning to support it, can lead us to mishandle a situation. Action is normally an automatic response based upon impulse instead of logic. In a penalty situation in soccer, the ball takes less than 0.3 seconds from the player who kicks the ball to the goal. […]
Just keep showing up
14th July 2025 The key to life is to just keep showing up. Your entire life will change when you realize that everything matters. You don’t get to pick and choose when to show up, because the world will ignore your best and judge you for your worst. The tiny thing you choose to ignore—the […]
Put the glass down
13th July 2025 Every now and then one come’s across the perfect article or story at the perfect time in our life. That happened for me recently. I don’t actually know who wrote this story or where it came from, but it had such an impact on me that I just had to share it […]
Stop Complaining..
6th July 2025 A lot of people who have it pretty damn good (like I do) find plenty of things to complain about. Ask someone, “How are you?” any given day of the week & chances are you’ll hear one of the classic, knee-jerk responses: “So busy at work.” “So exhausted.” “Can’t wait for this […]
The Power of Silence
5th July 2025 Ever since the Industrial Revolution, noise has been synonymous with productivity and progress, In all the clamour, we have forgotten the value of quiet. However, Spending time in silence – through meditation, prayer or going solo in the wilderness – has been integral to spiritual and religious practices for millennia: a path […]