3 Ways to Cultivate Curiosity

One of the things I have realised over time is that part of the reason I love learning is that I am extremely curious. Even when I was young, I can remember asking the question “Why?” many times. This is one of the skills I encourage clients to use when they are developing greater awareness…
The First 20 hours – How to Learn Anything by Josh Kaufman

Yes I love learning, what about you? Maybe that is why I ended up going to University and becoming a teacher. Whether it is a student or a client, I just love the look on someone’s face when they learn a skill. Not sure that feeling will ever get old. However, skill acquisition (i.e. learning…
Ready to Realign to You?

A few years back, when I had one of my first turning points I really started questioning life. I discovered many things on the adventure, however one word kept coming up and that was realignment. Subsequently, today I wanted to share more about realigning, including – Meanings of Realign, Five Ways to Start Realigning to…
A Simple Look at the Be-Do-Have Paradigm

When I first came across the Be-Do-Have Paradigm I was doing my coach training (yep many years ago now). I wrote about it briefly here, however I didn’t clearly articulate it. Yesterday, as I started to prepare to create the next quarter within my life, I got a prompting to write more about the model…
Dan Siegel on “Flipping Your Lid”

A little while back, I found this great explanation on Flipping Your Lid by Daniel Siegel. Recently, I have been sharing it a bit, so today I have decided to share it on here. Dan Siegel – Hand Model of the Brain Before I share the clip on flipping your lid, I think it…
Time to Create Your Joy List?

If you have been reading the journal for a while, you may already know one of the books that really helped me along my whole-hearted connection adventure was the Top Five Regrets of the Dying. I came across it around the time of my first 10-day silent meditation retreat. Yes, that time when I was…
The Hill We Climb by Amanda Gorman

Wow oh wow – I have just listened to the Hill We Climb by Amanda Gorman. She read this poem at the Inauguration Speech recently in the United States of America. If you would like to watch the speech and yes I feel it is worth it, please click here. Or if you would prefer…