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The Return of the Seeker
READ ARTICLE →: The Return of the SeekerThis is the final part of a short series introducing three archetypes that underpin our work as entrepreneurs, freelancers and professionals—The Artist, the Merchant and the Seeker. (They are also the subject of my book, coming out in June.) In part one I talked about the Artist, and how so many of us have our…
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Speak the Truth
Read Article →: Speak the TruthSpeak the truth. What moves you. What perplexes you. What pisses you off. Whatever comes out. The more you say it, the more wants to come. Keep speaking, even if it’s just for you, to untangle the mess in your head, scribbled in a notebook and kept on a shelf. And then. More often than…
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Crutches of Attention
Read Article →: Crutches of AttentionThere’s a part of me that doesn’t want to be conscious – to feel, to actually notice what’s going on around me And so when I’m not looking, it sneaks around behind me and steps into me, putting his hands inside my hands. When I can’t find a way to say what I want to…
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The Heroic Professional Part II: The Transformational Cycle
Read Article →: The Heroic Professional Part II: The Transformational CycleThe professional. A role as old as Adam. The professional used to be someone who had a trade – a craftsman, farmer, healer, soldier. The new professional is one who follows a vocation – literally a calling. And by following this calling, the call of the gods, we step into the shoes of the hero.…
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The Heroic Professional – Part I: The Archetypal Trinity
Read Article →: The Heroic Professional – Part I: The Archetypal TrinityWe live in interesting times. The famed ‘fast changing world’ – the best we can do to describe the overwhelming whirl of evolution as it gathers pace. I believe that we’re in the midst of the early chapters of a new age. Ken Wilber calls it integral. James Altucher would call it “choose yourself”. Seth…
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The Star
Read Article →: The StarWish upon it. Pray to it. Follow it. Do not think you are it, or believe other people when they say you could be. Do not mistake the mortal for the divine. The proper posture is one of devotion. The star is not reached through fame, it is never reached. It is the source of…
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How I Coach People
Read Article →: How I Coach PeopleIt’s been three years now since I started calling myself a coach. I’ve worked with a whole range of people. It’s been challenging, it’s been enlightening, and it’s been deeply fulfilling. Sometimes, a client’s life has been truly transformed – issues that have blocked them for decades dissolves, and a new path opens up in…
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The Purpose of Life
Read Article →: The Purpose of LifeWhat is the purpose of life? What is your purpose? My purpose? It’s a word that is as clichéd as it is important. And one I have wrestled with as much as it has inspired me. So often we talk of it as a thing, an ideal we must live up to, a definition we…
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What Makes You Special
Read Article →: What Makes You SpecialHuman beings have been trading stuff for an awfully long time. Some say for 150,000 years. It’s one of the biggest differentiators between us and the animals. It’s made our lives rich and cooperative. Here’s how it works… If one guy is great at making stone axes, and another guy is great at making wooden…
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This Is Not The Way
Read Article →: This Is Not The WayHe whispered to me this morning while I was making coffee. Amongst the sound of the grinding of beans, his voice spoke through my own lips. “This is not the way.” He didn’t refer to the way I was grinding the beans. I don’t think he has much to say on that subject. He was…
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Navigating Life’s Turning Points
Read Article →: Navigating Life’s Turning PointsThere are those moments that happen, periods in our lives, when we reach a fork in the road. The wheel of life has revolved, and we’re faced with a choice. A momentous choice perhaps. We feel it, like a beckoning from the future, or an intolerance for the present. Something wants to change. “I don’t…
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The Egoic Nature of Growth
Read Article →: The Egoic Nature of GrowthWe want to change. It’s built into our nature, the very substance of life. We want to realize the vision that we see in our mind’s eye. We want to fulfil the potential we feel in our soul. We’re told it’s possible, just a decision away. We want it fast. As fast as a book…
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What’s the Point of Your Work?
Read Article →: What’s the Point of Your Work?What’s the point? I don’t mean, in the self-deprecating fashion that we can be prone to. The one where the internal voice whines “oh, what is the point?” I mean, what’s the point – the sharpened statement that conveys the essence of what you do? Do you know? Do you have it written down? Do…