Things Done This Week: January 4th-10th, 2014
I love my journal of small wins. It’s a great way of tracking the things I’ve been doing and, as handy as my Collins diary is, I love having the …
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The Return of the Dancer and the Need for Space
There was a smile in Vickie’s voice. “I know why you want to do capoeira. I’ve known since Sydney.” “Okay, why do I want to do capoeira?” The smile was …
Things Done This Week: January 3rd, 2014
Not a bad place to sit and think about the week gone by, eh? So here’s something new: Post up choice excerpts from my Journal of Small Wins as some …
The Desktop PC Adventure, Part 1
You know, when I came up with this idea of wanting to feel as though life is an adventure, I didn’t think it’d apply to something as non-getting-outside as my …
What A Motor Scooter Crash Taught Me About How I Want To Feel
It’s interesting that I read a couple of blog posts in the short space of each other that relate to The Desire Map, a book by Danielle laPorte. (Admittedly, one …
How to Be Not Enough When You’re Starting
One of the worst phases of any project, I’m discovering, is the start. Not the very, very start, when you’re defining what you’re doing and what you want it to …
The Challenge of Embracing Discomfort: The Foxy Lady
You are now in a realm of not just sight and sound, but also of mind, a realm in which the difficult seems impossible and the opportunity to grow appears …
Letters on the Skill of Kindness: #1
Hi, Rob. Thank you for reading this. It means a lot to me that you’re giving this letter your attention. I’m writing this because you realised something recently, after years …
Four Lessons on Motivation from Four Days of Boot Camp
(Technically, this is going up after boot camp day #6, but I wrote most of it over the weekend.) The biggest surprise after four days of boot camp? I reckon …
Eight weeks in hell starts tomorrow.
I nip out of the office and pull out my phone to call my wife, only to discover a new text message. Probably advertising bumff from Telstra or something. But …