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“Anything you love comes around in another form.” – Rumi For weeks, now, I’ve been waking up around 4am. It happened again this morning, and since this is an unusual pattern for me, I started digging. I remembered a long time ago someone mentioned that, in Chinese Medicine, sleep disturbances can be related to energy […]

“Keep moving forward.” It’s week 3 of COVID-19 home-school. Our lives have been both simplified and complicated. Our business feels like it’s in stasis, yet we have rarely felt busier. I have been forced to slow down, yet also feel an inexorable pull to hustle my face off and strive to “beat” the rest of […]

You have permission to do nothing. Pause, for a moment, and consider that. Truly let yourself feel the depth of that statement. You have permission. Permission to simply be, without doing anything. This morning I woke at 5:30am for some yoga. I felt foggy, and I almost returned to bed, except for the conversation I’d had with my […]

Today’s quote is an abridged version of my wife’s favourite mantra: “The Universe delivers, and I am exactly where I need to be.” It came to me this morning, as I was doing yoga before dawn. As the light slowly filtered across the landscape, I noticed an odd shape outside our lounge room window. A […]

As you will probably know by now, if you’ve read a few of these IQs, I have a history of depression. It has touched my life at various points through my youth, studying at University, during my first career in IT, and the most prominently after the birth of my second child, my son Rilien. […]

A dear friend of mine made a suggestion yesterday about rules. A quick snip of his text message: “…Re the IQs, I read something about setting rules. Just drop those and do them when you feel like it.” On reflection, I realised I’ve been doing that anyway, even without declaring it officially. I’ve had the […]

“If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.” – Anatole France Inspired by the fact that the sun’s reflection looks like a solid path stretching across the water, today’s IQ is about two things for me: 1) Acceptance that the journey, the process, is the most important thing. We can’t force […]

Boundary conditions. Interesting things happen on the edges. At the threshold between current and future, on the precipice of possibility. The cutting edge; or even nearer to peril, the bleeding edge. As we approach the boundary of what we know, we experience things in a heightened state of awareness – little nuances become seismic events; […]

“Empower Yourself.” I made an important discovery yesterday, with the help of my new psychologist. Yes, I’ve started seeing a psychologist. I figured that since I’ve got a history of depression, and since I’ve recently begun a new unplanned adventure into the dark alleys and corners of anxiety, I should probably have a mental health […]