A friend sent me a recent article by Sir Anthony Hopkins. Its essence was that we deserve the best and so when people treat us badly we should move away from them, have only those who cherish us in our life. Many thousands of people thanked him for the article. It was...
Let’s think of anything you’d like to change in your life or in the world right now but feel stuck with. It could be relationships, finances, job, health, housing, motivation, fears, insecurities, … anything. It could be wanting to change someone else that we worry...
It’s easy when we talk about change, leadership, impact or influence to miss the single only thing worth looking at. This verse from the Diamond Sutras, the world’s oldest printed book, tells us, through a conversation between the Buddha and his disciple Subhuti, what...
Often on our courses, there are conversations with parents wanting their kids to stop fighting or to help out more and adults who are angry at their parents. There are employees wanting their bosses to change and bosses despairing over their employees. There are women...
Escape… Don’t we all want to do that sometimes? And isn’t it true that the thing we most want to escape from is our own self? The constantly blaming voice? The sense of being limited or trapped? The feeling that we are inadequate, not right or unworthy? The fear of...
It was the tag line from Jaws, The Revenge, famously one of the worst films ever made. The shark is back and follows the Brody family from Amity Island to the Bahamas, strategically targeting them to extract its revenge. The images and score of the original Jaws still...
‘Make the suffering stop. It is overwhelming. Take away the anguish. Make me feel better. I’ve tried everything. This is my last hope.’ Maybe we all know that desperation. It might not be suffering in relation to health. It might be about our partner or money or...
Monday's blog post. So much love to you xx ACTIONS, DESTINY AND CHANGE Here’s our current operating model: I, me, am the decision-maker, the controller, the experiencer. I choose what words are said or written. I am the doer. I make the actions happen. I am the...
It really looks like our happiness, security and well-being depend on the actions and words of others. At the level of physical impact it is certainly true that the behaviours of this body here can cause that body there physical harm and vice versa. It really makes...
READY FOR IT? The lottery started in the UK in 1994 and my sister suggested that our family should have a syndicate. Every Saturday we sat in the living room seeing if our numbers would come up. My 93 year old grandmother would sit there, not saying a word, hardly...