“Turn the keys in the ignition.” OMG OMG OMG The engine is on OMG OMG “This is the gear stick. Press your left foot down. And push the gear stick into 1st. This is the hand brake. Release the handbrake.” OMG OMG OMG The engine is on. OMG OMG OMG. “Release the...
Maslow gave us a nice pyramid. Human needs. A hierarchy. The theory goes that we meet the needs at one level and move up. This seems to makes sense. Searching for food, water, warmth and shelter could take all the attention until they are found. Then there would be...
In a conference on building mega brands and mega businesses, years ago, my colleague Nicola Bird asked the only question that mattered: ‘How do we know when to stop? What is enough?’ The seminar leader couldn’t answer. ‘Enough’ was, for that leader, an unexplored...
The law of attraction tells us that our thoughts create our reality and that if we change our thoughts we can change our lives. It says that through controlling what we believe we can draw into our life everything we have ever wanted - the partner of our dreams, the...
“We can’t go under it. We can’t go over it. Oh no! We have to go through it.” That’s a line repeated over and over and over again in a kids’ book about a bear hunt. To find the bear, a family has to go right through all sorts of elements - mud, a river, a forest, a...
[Photo credit: artist and illustrator, Siri Stiklestad Opli http://www.fjellbjorka.no] Not YOU of course. Not the you you really are. No I mean the idea of who you are. The identity. The insecure, vulnerable self that we believe ourselves to be. That’s the you we are...
[Photo credit: artist and illustrator, Siri Stiklestad Opli http://www.fjellbjorka.no] Crawling is happening. Parents and grandparents exclaim ‘Well done baby! You are crawling!’ Walking is happening. The people around say ‘You can walk! Clever child!’ Talking...
[Photo credit: artist and illustrator, Siri Stiklestad Opli http://www.fjellbjorka.no] How do we get over someone leaving us? How do we cope with the stand off after a row? How do we mend a broken heart? We don’t. We can’t. It’s not just hard to break up. It...
Shakespeare, Byron, Baudelaire could search the furthest corners of language and still not find the poetry to convey who you are. Nothing can come close to describing you. No words, no music, no painting, no sculpture can bring you to life. All falls short. You are...
[Photo credit: artist and illustrator, Siri Stiklestad Opli http://www.fjellbjorka.no] “It’s the ultimate peace, ultimate freedom. Everything falls away. There is nothing left.” a beautiful young man, I met recently, describing heroin. And isn’t that what all...