My dreams have changed. For a long while now, my dreams have been disturbing and unsettling. Of late however, I’m finding I wake up aware that while my dreams were extremely vivid to the point I honestly am very surprised it was in fact ‘just a...
David Deida in The Way of The Superior Man states from the beginning of his book that a man needs to find his purpose if he is going to be trustworthy. He goes on to explain that ‘If we are willing to discover and embrace our...
‘Man Know Thyself!’ — It is such a profound command because of its complexity. And as we begin to get a handle on what potentially it is that we are, we additionally realise that much of who we are can only be discovered when we...
I really believe we are all here for a reason. I was in a rundown area today not far from where I live and I witnessed a fellow swaggering along and shouting in a hostile tone to people he had been interacting with. He was...
The problem with coming to know your purpose is that you have to have done some work to get to know yourself first. Getting to know yourself however, comes in different shapes and sizes. For me, I had the backdrop of some lived experience. I had...
Okay – Responsibility. It’s one of those words, it’s like ‘Discipline’ it reminds us of school, parents, and church – bosses, police and other authority figures and their imposed regulations, demands and requirements. Oh, and always when you least want to - ‘tidy your room’,...
So recently I had the privilege of being asked to provide insight (via a masterclass) into my perfect system for creating my track record of failure, unfulfillment and dysfunction. Frankly I thought you’d never ask; ‘how do I do it?’ - but seeing as you...
How do we go from Surviving life to Thriving in Life? It’s such an important question because some of us who are simply ‘surviving’ don’t actually realise that there is an alternative. In fact if we survive another day, week, month, year even, we are...
Have you begun to Thrive yet? Since we spoke last time where I explained what causes us to live in survival mode, we identified that the shift from survival living to thrival living is a matter of pattern interruption. We have to interrupt the patterns established...
Let me be vulnerable and express where all this came from for me. You're right, I read the text books, Hollis, Gillette and Moore, Boothroyd, Bly and many others. I reached for Rod Boothroyd's book Warrior, Magician, Lover, King updated for the 21st century in...
