Personal Growth and Mindfulness

You’ll most likely fail in your current form—with whatever you are doing. Failure and success come highly charged emotionally. Feeling worried, anxious, sad, or stressed about failure (or success) is normal. Experience those emotions, but don’t hold onto them—let them flow and let them go. In the moment of clarity you’ll get from letting go,…

Personal Growth and Mindfulness

Discover a straightforward approach to meditation that strips away the mystique, offering an easy, practical foundation for beginners or those seeking to refine their practice. This guide provides clear, actionable steps to help you standardise and enhance your meditation experience. These are techniques learned from practice and listening to the masters for many years. This…

If you’re setting out to transform in the New Year, here’s a summary of the process I use.A link to a more detailed description and links to resource i use is included below. 3 Steps to Change: The HALM Steps: There’s more information and links to resource I use in the original post about HALM:The…

Headspace I enjoy taking long walks in places where there aren’t many people. I find that such places have more mental space. It’s something I’ve become aware of, and I can only compare it to a dog owner letting their dog off the leash to explore the woods! To me, this is a valuable meditative…

? Meditation is a great way to improve the quality of your life but it’s over complicated and full of dogma. Here’s some things that work for me… ? SettingA quiet place where you won’t be interrupted is best because it’s one less thing to distract you. ? Breathing is just for focus.Your breath is…

Have you ever tuned into sports pundits dissecting the performance of a star athlete? They’ll often dive deep into the psyche of these players, marveling at how they rise to the occasion, how they maintain composure under the most intense pressure. But what’s truly going on in their minds at these critical moments? Are they…

What’s the thing that challenges you? Your Rubicon – your insurmountable barrier. The ‘thing’ you’re focusing on when the voice in your head says “If I could just change ..X… I’d be happy”. Everyone has one X, at least one, maybe more. You’ve probably had challenges in the past. Do you know when a challenge…

What do you think is true? Think of one thing in your mind that you believe is true. Examples; God is a divine being, My Football team are great, I am an expert at something, My Dad is good… There is no right answer, pick anything you want, it’s not about Judging, just pick something…

Are you self aware? Yes? good. That’s the life test passed. You’re alive, yeah! You always experience some degree of awareness but it’s very easy to be lulled to sleep and most of us spend most of our lives mostly asleep. Awaken! What do I mean awaken? You’re already awake? Are you sure? “Yes of…

Yes that’s definitely Cardinal… Cardinal Knowledge is a list of time honoured wisdoms that I’ve collected over the years. These have served me well as a cheat sheet to refer to when I need some direction. Origin story. What’s in a name? Cardinal Knowledge? As my ‘Navigator Theme’ develops I’m compiling everything I’ve learned over…

Trusting yourself might be a good place to start 2024… A Wiseman once told me that I’d know what to do when the time comes…. and I thought – I sure hope he’s right. He is, whatever happens I have no choice really, I’d have to do something, take some action. The question is; is…

Ultimately what you’re looking for in life is fulfilment. But how to get it? Doing something that causes you to fulfilled is what we call our purpose. Have you more than one purpose? Maybe? If you’re not sure where to start with then don’t worry, it’s all the same in the end… Golden Calf The…

“The Essentials” reduces energy consumption, cranks your flywheel, generates energy, calm, and flow. I first wrote this list in March 2022, but in practice, the actions it contains are much older than that. These are things I do when I need to get going. I decided that I better write down the things I do,…

I was asked a challenging question last week. “What is your purpose?”To ponder and perhaps try to answer the question, I decide that a long walk is in order. It’s a sunny morning in an otherwise wet July so off I go. Unemployed. Strolling through parkland on a lush, green July morning is a privilege.…

All rivers drain to the sea. They are gernerally going the same direction their whole life, their goal / destination it to get to the sea. A river is a symbosis between the land and the water. They conspire to return water to the ocean and are part of a large system we call the…