Well-Being and Emotional Resilience Coach – Writer, Speaker, Nice Guy
I want to talk about anger. I have been – for most of my adult life – an angry man: Angry at the world during my teens (who wasn’t?!) Angry at my IT career not working out how I wanted Angry at how painfully slowly my photography career and small business grew and matured Angry […]
There are no accidents. Me popping into your inbox right this moment, you reading this post wherever you are, the weather where you live, that person who just phoned out of the blue… There. Are. No. Accidents. How do I know this? There are too many serendipitous reasons to list, but a few that spring […]
I’ve been learning a lot this past 12 months – about myself, my habits, my patterns, and what lights me up inside. What it means to live my best Illuminating Life. But I’ve also been learning about the things that hold me back, and stop me from living the life I want to live. Some […]
It’s the time of year where many of us start reflecting—almost automatically—on the year that has been, and the year ahead. In other words, focusing on endings and beginnings. Many artists through time have commented on the coupled nature of beginnings and endings. It’s impossible to have one without another. Start, stop. Begin, end. Birth, […]
“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 […]