Why is it that all of the people who embrace life’s uncertainty seem so content and happy?  All the backpackers, hippies, roamers and nomads, who hop from place-to-place day-by-day.  Why do all the people who crave certainty seem so frantic, stressed, rattled, depressed, anxious? Why indeed.  I guess it makes little sense to seek certainty in areas for which we have no control.  It makes sense to be certain about the things for which we have all the control.  Knowing the difference between the two is absolutely and positively essential then.  Of that I’m certainly certain.   Join the Intentional Sharing Movement, where we change the world by sharing

It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No, it’s a-polished-end-product-that-has-resulted-from-millenia-of-evolution-ingenuity-and-decades-of-nurtured-upbringing.    No one wants to know the ugly truth about Superman As far as popular culture examples go, there are few bigger examples of the Iceberg Effect than Superman.   What we see - the 10% of Superman above the surface  We look up to the sky, see a muscular alpha-male, gloriously dressed in blue and red. The cape is flapping emphatically in the wind, the hair slicked back.  Whenever there’s trouble, he’ll swoop in and save the day. He is the end product, a finished article, a figure of perfection. Or so we think.    What we don’t see

Pain = Learning + Unpleasant Experience.  Unpleasant experiences always teach and motivate us more powerfully than pleasure, albeit in narrow areas. People will more aggressively avoid something painful than they will pursue something which gives them pleasure.  We see this in marketing - It is easier to sell someone something that helps them avoid pain than something that gives them pleasure.  No one’s desire to buy a luxury sports car, mansion, or first class plane ticket is an emergency.  But you would pay anything to a doctor to save your life if going into cardiac arrest, you’ll pay almost anything to a lawyer who can

Take a notepad with you everywhere you go. You just don’t know when someone around you will say something that knocks your socks off, or blows a section of your mind open - BOOM!! -like dynamite. The best way to live is as a constant student. I’ll repeat that. The best way to live is as a constant student. When we fall out of love with learning, with improving, we sacrifice compounding returns and we close our mind. When we close our mind, we risk getting left behind, simple as that. I’m a voracious note-taker. On conversations, on books I read, on every single idea.

If the thing we dream about or want to try doesn’t carry excessive danger or risk, then I’ve learned the best thing to do is to start terribly, fail and learn fast.  Done is better than perfect, and anything is better than analysis paralysis.  And, my worst times came when I was stuck doing nothing.  I think that in life we will find the next stepping stone much easier if we continually do good things and meet new and open-minded people.    Remember the principle of the thousand doors.    So one of my simplest mantras, which I repeat over and over to myself:    Start terribly, fail and

I’d like to speak to the experience of the Hello Stranger Launch and the active role that the universe plays in  setting our journey.  Hello Stranger was a podcast project initiated by Andrew Riis, and launched 18th June 2020. I hardly knew Andrew - we got connected by chance, and only communicated when I saw him post about finding a virtual assistant in a Sydney Startups group.  After learning of the huge overlap between Hello Stranger and the thoughts I’d had about my own podcasting with everyday people, we connected and he invited me to be part of the launch.  An AirBnB in