After nearly a year of disrupted schooling and intermittent social interaction, our children are suffering. A lot of their parents are struggling too. The current lockdown is making the first one feel like a summer holiday in comparison. 1st Lockdown When the schools first closed in March 2020, the sun was out and it felt […]
Self Care
Setting Your Baseline
True friends call you out when you’re talking shit. Am I right? Sometimes it’s a very direct “I love you, but will you listen to yourself?” and sometimes the mirroring is more passive. This week I have been blessed to spend time with a variety of my friends and one key topic has come up […]
Back to Life, Back to Reality
If you’re humming Soul II Soul right now, you’re welcome. You’re probably one of my people 🙂 My friend Jo made me laugh by calling it a Dad thing to randomly break into song when certain words were uttered within earshot – I do it too. All the time. Sorry, not sorry. I spent bits […]
The Meaning of Life
…is 42. So says Deep Thought in the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. I think Douglas Adams had a point though, because what I observed in my year as a 42 year old will stay with me for the rest of my life. The back end of 2019 had plenty of WTF moments, but the […]
The Domino Effect
Have you ever noticed the domino effect in your own life? You know, where one thing happens and then it triggers another thing, which sets off another thing and maybe the initial change was tiny but by the end the change has been huge? In The Power of Habit we met Lisa Allen, who changed […]
The Mid Year Review
I don’t think anybody would disagree that 2020 has been a pretty weird year thus far. We had the catastrophic bushfires in Australia, locusts in Africa, global pandemic and probably the biggest surge in consciousness around racism since the civil rights movement in the 1960s. Much of it has happened against a backdrop of lockdown, […]
Finding the Ground
Something wonderful happened this week. I found the ground again. WTF? Well I’ve been in this kind of floaty limbo since the schools closed on the 20th March and I’ve not been feeling entirely myself as a result. My creative flow has been absent. My productivity has been absent. My drive has been absent. The […]
The Vital Importance of Maintenance
Bear with? Among the many hats I wear and plates I spin, I manage a building and the enterprise hub it houses. Over the past few months, we have been experiencing the joys of the rain (that has barely stopped for breath since September) inside the building as well as out. When I started in […]