As I was typing ‘the rain is pelting down my office window’, the sun immediately came out. And I kid you not as soon as I typed ‘the sun came out’ a cloud blocked out the rays. The weather in [...] Read more

A big question today: what is work? I know. It sounds very management consultancy. But stay with me. For many ‘work’ is the completion of tasks on a To Do list. And that kind of work is addictive. It can [...] Read more

A thought is like an arrow shooting through our mind. There is nothing that we can do about those arrows. Our minds think. That’s what they are designed to do. Where we have control is whether or not we want [...] Read more

How is your work life balance? Rather like when the Russians and Americans discovering that biros don’t work in Space, we have to be careful to start with the right question. The Americans asked ‘How can we make biros work [...] Read more

I found myself inspired by an interview with Jay Shetty (of ‘How To Think Like A Monk’ fame) on Deliciously Ella’s podcast this week.  One of the topics being discussed, to paraphrase, was the mistake many of us make of [...] Read more