Thankful people are more successful
It’s been a while. Due to everything that’s been going on – from redundancy to starting a new job – there have been no updates since the end of September. I’m not going to be back posting on a daily basis for now, but I am going to be back posting frequently. And definitely more frequently than once every six weeks! The last month has been a really great time of acclimatising with my new job, settling in with the team I’m working with, and just generally finding my feet. It really feels like a good fit though and moves me into an area of work that is much more in tune with my passions. Sometimes it takes something bad (redundancy) to open

Confidence
I’ve been thinking about confidence these last few days. Where does it come from and how do we get it? What makes one person full of confidence and another consumed by timidity? I’m sure there are many answers to these questions. These are not the sort of questions that have one simple answer. That said, the ‘answer’ that I’ve found myself keeping coming back to has been that of self-awareness. The more fully we know ourselves – our strengths, our weaknesses, our passions, our motivations – the more we find confidence permeating our beings. The more comfortable we are within our own skin – rather than trying to be like someone else –

Why you should keep changing things
Change. It’s that thing we all seem to have a love / hate relationship with. Most of us recognise that things need to change and yet, at the same time, almost everyone has one part of us who is at least a little bit resistant to it. Something that I’ve discovered though is that the less change happens, the harder it is to embrace it. If an organisation changes nothing for five years and then, suddenly, out of the blue announces a whole series of changes, then there is going to be opposition. Everyone has become comfortable with the ways things are. And perhaps ‘comfort’ is the key word here. If we allow things to become too comfortable

Aliveness Theory – Part 4 | by Dale Swinburne
Today’s post is by regular guest author Dale Swinburne. (Catch up on parts 1, 2, 3) Each of us has incredible potential. We have been created to live a full life according to Chip Anderson. We’ve been walking through his Aliveness Theory as he charts for us the stark comparison we could experience in our lives as opposed to the lives we settle for.

You cannot achieve what you cannot conceive
The title I’ve given this post is simply a sentence that I read this morning that really resonated with me. It ties in nicely with the previous post where I talked about the importance of dreaming. It is very easy to focus on what we do not have. We become consumed by our needs, whether they be physical, material, emotional, or spiritual. And they end up constraining our imagination. Too many us end up having our futures limited because we have allowed our circumstances to overwhelm our imaginations. You see, if we cannot imagine something, then we have no chance of ever seeing it come to pass. W