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The Life Pie — A Brutally Honest Look at Where Your Time Actually Goes
A few weeks ago I sat down and did the life pie exercise again — draw a circle, divide it into slices, be honest about where your time actually goes. I’d been putting it off, if I’m honest — not because it’s hard, but because I had a fairly solid idea of what it would…
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How I Found My Values — And Why It Changed Everything
I was sitting in a work training session I hadn’t particularly wanted to attend when our guest speaker, a sports coach, said something that stopped me cold. It would take me down the path of how to find your values — and I was annoyed it had taken me this long. The room was full…
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Why I Started Gardening (And What It Taught Me About Everything Else)
If you’d asked me why I started gardening, I’m not sure I could have given you a clean answer. But it probably starts here — a section of our yard growing up that we called the fernery. One side of the house, shaded by tall rainforest-style trees, where the light came through in layers and…
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A Simple Approach to Mindfulness — For People Who’ve Already Tried and Quit
I want to start with an admission. The first time someone suggested I try meditation as a simple approach to mindfulness, I mentally filed it under things I’d never do. Along with juice cleanses and networking events. It sounded like something for people who had too much time and not enough problems — a kind…
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Why I Stopped Trying to Optimise My Mornings
My wife pointed out something a few years ago that I haven’t been able to shake. We were on holidays – one of those trips where you actually decompress, sleep properly, and remember what it feels like to not be running on fumes. One day we were laughing about something that didn’t really matter and…