The Life Journal

My latest book is called The Life Journal. I have been researching and writing this for the last five years. It explains how and why a life journal can impact your life. Journal writing is one of the most powerful and least known self-help tools. It can lead to dramatic improvements in virtually every area of our… Continue reading The Life Journal

Beyond Carnism

Melanie Joy gives an excellent talk about the hidden ideology of Carnism, the psychology behind a meat-centred diet, explaining why we find it socially acceptable to kill and eat some animals (e.g. cows, sheep, and pigs) and, at the same time, abhorrent to eat other species (e.g. monkeys, cats and dogs).

85 Year Old Woman Shows It’s Never Too Late!

The story of Anna Pesce is remarkable by any standard. When visiting her children in Wagener, SC, in November 2014, Anna, then 85 years old, had developed severe scoliosis and struggled to walk, yet alone climb stairs. Then she took up yoga and over the following months she was literally transformed, as you’ll see in… Continue reading 85 Year Old Woman Shows It’s Never Too Late!

7 People who gained Superhuman Abilities after Terrible Accidents

You might expect to see some of these things in a Marvel comic book. But, the stories in this video reveal that fact is often stranger than fiction. Here we see seven people who were literally transformed, finding new extraordinary abilities, following severe accidents. Tragedy can bring new opportunities and become a catalyst for personal transformation that… Continue reading 7 People who gained Superhuman Abilities after Terrible Accidents

Meet The Superhumans

Watching this video, I felt complete awe, admiration and respect for such extraordinary people. They really are super humans and they don’t inspire you, nothing will!

Back to blogging

It’s been a very long time since I have posted anything new to this blog but I thought I’d start sharing my thoughts on things that are of interest and matter to me. Things like the environment, religion, healthcare and technology. This weekend just gone, I watched two excellent documentaries – An Inconvenient Truth by former Vice President… Continue reading Back to blogging

How do we thrive on challenges that others avoid

This is a a rare video of one of my favourite motivational speakers, Art Mortell. Only 12 minutes long but well worth a watch. Enjoy!

how the worst moments in our lives make us what we are

I just came across this wonderful talk from Andrew Solomon on why adversity can change us for the better. As discussed in The Flipside, it all comes down to finding meaning in life’s experiences. Enjoy!

It is life’s limitations that make us limitless

This morning I came upon this beautiful presentation by artist Phil Hansen revealing how our limitations can actually free us to become limitless. When his art was destroyed by nerve damage in his hand, Phil’s neurosurgeon advised him to ‘Embrace the shake’. It was only then that something incredible happened! Enjoy! Learning to be creative within the confines… Continue reading It is life’s limitations that make us limitless

Connecting the dots

I just re-watched Steve Jobs wonderful speech at Stanford University in 2005 (below). What is particularly interesting is Steve’s reference to ‘connecting the dots’ in life. We can’t connect the dots forward, they can only be connected looking backward on events. It was ten years AFTER dropping out of College that he discovered why dropping… Continue reading Connecting the dots

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