Great Circle

We were talking in the last post about this experience for 35-55 year olds of feeling numb, succumbing to the status quo, losing their edge, giving up on trying for an ideal life or world. I joked in the comments about future sociologists dubbing this experience Midlife Disaffected Syndrome – a better phrase (I thought [...]

Last year, Australian rugby’s Team captain George Gregan celebrated a milestone in becoming the most capped Test player in rugby history and setting a record tally of 57 Tests as Wallabies captain.  I watched as he was interviewed on a Breakfast TV program. He was asked “Will you still play on after the 2007 World [...]

I just read the latest post by Rosa Say & it really got me thinking (particularly the question she leaves us with). My thoughts go something like this: So often … we rush on to the next thing without enjoying what already is … we reach a milestone but see it as a measure of how far we still have to go … we [...]

Yep, it’s that wonderful post-Christmas coming-down-off-adrenaline-and-contemplating-a-new-year time again! If you are in the goal-setting frame-of-mind (or you’ve just come up with your New Year’s Resolutions), I have a question for you: What will provide the energy to see these goals and resoutions through? You may have just finished last year with a sense of “Damn. I really [...]

     I was chatting this morning with a good friend of mine in Sydney. She was commenting on how totally unenjoyable her job was - largely because it had nothing to do with her vision and ambitions.  The pay’s ok, the people are ok, it’s just not what she wants to do with the good stuff inside [...]

Sick of meetings? Finding you’re jumping through hoops instead of getting your work done? You’re not alone and business commentators have been singing the praises of decentralising and debureaucratising workplaces for a couple of decades now. I love this recent post by Kevan Hall - and the picture at Slow Leadership expresses what most of us are [...]

“Why do today what you can put off til tomorrow?” This is the unfortunate motto of many an unfulfilled person, a person whose potential is far from realised. Procrastination has been called an “energy leak of the soul.” It’s the “Path MOST Traveled”! The circumstances we live in today are partly due to choices we have made before. [...]