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Slow Down to Move Forward: Why Instant Answers Aren’t Always the Best OnesWe live in a world that runs at full speed. Everything is instant; instant food, instant messages, instant entertainment, instant answers. You can order something online and expect it tomorrow. You can ask AI a question and get a full page of information in seconds. You can scroll through endless content without even thinking.But somewhere in the middle of all this convenience, we’ve lost something important: the abili...

It's hard to read a label when you're inside the jar.

Recently, a strategic business coach shared an idea with me that really stuck. They said, “When you’re looking at the label, you can’t see what the label is when you’re inside the jar.” It’s a simple picture, but it carries a lot of truth. When we look at ourselves, we’re looking from the inside out. We don’t see what others see. We think we know who we are, where we’re going, and what we’re doing, but sometimes there are things others notice that we simply can’t.When you�...

What mask are you wearing?

We all wear masks. Not the bright yellow, wild, cartoonish kind Jim Carrey throws on in The Mask, but the subtle, everyday ones we slip into without even noticing. In my podcast on Spotify, I describe how “a lot of us do walk around with a mask on… the idea that we have to be a certain person in front of certain people.” And it’s true — most of us have a version of ourselves for work, another for home, another for social settings, and sometimes one we don’t even realise we’ve creat...

You Can Teach an Old Dog New Tricks

We’ve all heard the saying: “You can’t teach an old dog new tricks.”It gets thrown around as if it’s a universal truth — the older we get, the harder it is to learn, and eventually we just stop being able to change. People say it about themselves, about others, and often as an excuse to stay stuck.But the truth is, that old saying doesn’t hold up. Not for dogs, and definitely not for us.For years, science told us that our brains stopped learning at a certain age. Once we hit that i...

AI Is Helpful, But...........

Artificial intelligence has become one of the big talking points of our time. Everywhere you look, someone is either excited about it, worried about it, or wondering what it means for the future. Many of us grew up with movies like Terminator, imagining robots taking over the world. “If you’re of that age you remember the Terminator… taking over the world.”But now we’re living in a world where AI isn’t science fiction anymore. It’s here, it’s powerful, and it’s woven into every...

Rethinking Introverts, Extroverts and the space in between

Today I want to touch on something simple but surprisingly misunderstood: introverts, extroverts, and the ambiverts who sit in the middle.My wife mentioned an article she read recently that described introverts as the people who show up to a party, hide in the corner, and don’t talk to anyone. She laughed because, as an introvert herself, that’s not her at all. She’ll go to a working bee and end up doing more talking than working. She loves catching up with people — she just recharges di...

The stone in your shoe. A simple lesson for navigating life's frustrations.

Walking the Hakarimata walkway is always a good challenge — steady climbs, beautiful bush, and the kind of quiet that gives your mind room to breathe. But if you’ve ever walked it, you’ll know there’s one small thing that can derail the whole experience: a stone in your shoe.It’s tiny. Almost nothing.But once it’s there, you feel it every step.And as I was walking recently, that little stone made me think about life.We all get “stones” in our shoesNot literal ones — but the sma...