You have a choice. Grasp an opportunity when it turns up. Position yourself where opportunity is more attractive and likely. Create opportunity out of difficulty. You have preferences and abilities when it comes to opportunity and others may judge you on your approach. By being clear on how you want to act around opportunity, […]
Renaissance
Covid lockdown time is flat time, disconnecting us from our past and our future. What have we been nurturing while cocooned in this flat time? Art. Art is bursting out. Art is our soul giving us the cure for flat time, for lost past and future. Art marks this moment, this Now in which we […]
Gratitude
Be grateful. Best to be slow with it. Slow enough to see afresh what’s already before you. All that you take for granted changes when you’re seeing clearly into everything to be grateful for. It’s what I see when looking over water, to the horizon, seeing the irresistible ebb and flow that have been the […]
Perfection
Some of us (Ok, me, and others like me…), were conditioned to believe that a perfect outcome is possible. Whatever the field, perfection is something we must strive for. It’s an idea that won’t go away. It’s the ideal twin to the other utopian world view – doom. Doom and perfection both drive us to […]
Decisions
Choice terrifies us, so the Existentialists tell us. It’s in there, with falling and freedom, an existential fear. Decisions need information and a process to a goal. When all is uncertain, we can’t see the goal and our old processes fail. Decisions feel impossible. Well, perfect decisions are impossible, but they always were. What does […]
Enough
Ten years ago Tony said to me, ‘I’ve decided to go for better, rather than more.’ Early in his career, my client had encountered a choice that many do not experience until much later. It boiled down to noting that he already had Enough. That was a tough insight, as he was neck deep in […]
Frustration
Our growth is a continuous creative act. Frustration is a necessary stage in all creativity, but in life as in art, it can be like squeezing a stone, expecting blood. Nothing comes. There is no sign our effort has any effect. Yet this pain’s necessary, to force us into exasperated experiment with living. We become […]
Meaning
In the grand scheme of the universe, we are insignificant. That knowledge doesn’t stop us from asking about meaning. Out there, looking at the universe, it’s tough to find meaning. It’s right here, in a grounded dialogue, that we can seek it more fruitfully. In the quiet of reflection, meaning becomes free of […]
Thriving
Here are some ideas for how to thrive over the next twelve months, starting now. No matter what the past has brought, you still have choice and the power to act, to craft a future in which to thrive. Build new foundations You need to plant your feet firmly if you are to leap, which […]