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You are on a plane and there is an emergency. The oxygen masks come down. Who’s mask do you put on first? Your own. Always. It doesn’t matter if your child is sitting next to you, you still put yours on first. The order never changes. What if we adopt the same mindset to our […]

Many people who struggle with their mental health, don’t tell anyone. In 2021, there were 3,144 deaths by suicide in Australia. That’s 9 deaths per day. A group of incredible human beings organised an event. They believed that “enough is enough” and that it’s time to TALK. The event was called “Start the Dialogue”. 120 […]

A famous parable by Heinrich Böll that reminds me about what is enough. I invite you to draw your own insights. Beware, these insights may change you. An American investment banker was taking a much-needed vacation in a small coastal Mexican village when a small boat with just one fisherman docked. The boat had several […]

Are your New Year’s goals in silos or is there synergy? We play 3 games. The Happiness game. Am I happy? The Health game.  Am I healthy? The High performance game. Am I performing at a high level? I help busy people find the balance that exists at the intersection of these 3 games. Usually, […]

Two patients. Both in their mid 40s. Both with lives that will change forever this week.  Both newly diagnosed with diabetes. One of them had a heart attack at the same time.  That’s when the diabetes was diagnosed. Both with a BMI greater than 30.  Both with busy and demanding jobs. Both with “poor work life […]

It’s tempting to start setting goals for the New Year. Before you do, consider a lake. Most of the time, a lake is disturbed by activity: birds, children swimming, rain drops and people in kayaks. This causes ripples on the surface of the water. Your mind is like a lake. Similarly, the mind is disturbed […]

Most of us suck at setting happiness goals. “I want to stop feeling so anxious.” As Russ Harris would say, that’s a dead person’s goal. A dead person can not have something because well, their dead. There are two broad categories of goals: goals that move us away from something and goals that move us […]

I wanted to share a powerful moment I shared with an incredible human I am coaching. We have been working on her fear of failure. “What’s your definition of success?” I asked. After a long pause, “Doing things that I couldn’t previously do.” The last few months have been spent doing just that. She has […]

Ronda Rousey is one of the most influential women in the world of mixed martial arts. She would kick my ass. She would kick your ass too. One day during training, Ronda broke her right hand. She couldn’t use it for 6 months. This is big news for a professional athlete training for a cage […]