Why I’m ReLaunching The Perfect Present
Early 2025, Louise and I got to talking about publishing a physical copy of The Ten Commitments -- a book I wrote over ten years ago now. Once the major edits were done, I realised the next natural step, for both readers and myself, was The Perfect Present 8-Week...
How To See Agitation As Inspiration
Discretion is the Better Part of Valour
It's meant to be a joke. Caution is not the first port of call for the courageous. And yet this sarcasm has become a structural support for those seeking to extol the charity and practical wisdom of letting cooler heads prevail. But who cares, right? Who really cares...
How To Feel (fill in the blank)
There is a simple way to match that feeling you're chasing with the reality you're already living (and it's not the secret or the law of attraction or anything else you've tried so far), I promise! Let's cut straight to the chase - all you need is a Dynamic...
The Lollipop or the Lash?
Sure, I could focus on what I'm not doing (yet). Make note of and draw attention to, say, the exercise regime of my 'ideal self' to-do list... I could feel bad about how different/better/healthier I might be if I had actually dedicated myself as I planned to from the...
Doing Without Doing
What happens when you combine inner-work with outer-work? You get Oneness. But how do you live in a world that looks like it has borders and boundaries, with people who talk in terms of being separate, and still maintain your own cosmology of Oneness? In other words,...
Compassionate Ends
Like hyphenated Americans, the idea of radical compassion or unconditional love, bemuse. While many seem to abide the lores of selective compassion, which is not unlike selective-listening where one admits to some but not all of what is available, compassion is what...
Three Simple Ways To Be Grateful For Your Uniqueness (when you wish it was different).
Whether it's professional or personal, there's always something missing... No matter how amazing other people think we are, we find ways to dismiss our uniqueness. There are a million and one ways to address our self-esteem issues, and yet we continue to see the...
John Keats Died At Age 25 Believing He Was A Failure
John Keats died at age 25 believing he was a failure. What did Keats seek in himself that felt lacking? Life is fickle. One window seems clear. Revealing bright, unclouded, direct experience. Another hazy. As if obscured by a screen filtering and distancing our...
Oneness
"Hallelujah! Finally someone is talking about Oneness as an experience rather than as an outcome. Let's have that conversation!" How many times have we heard people claim they're all about oneness and then start preaching how we "should" be different because we're out...