Live a big X life. What is X? Live a big X life. As your life slogan, what is X for you? What is the first word that comes into your mind. Quickly now, don’t overthink it! Imagine you are at a meet up event and the host has asked…

Even the most rudimentary PESTEL analysis, or glance at a news site, or social media, will give you a sense of what to expect this year at the macro level: continued economic uncertainty, and the looming potential for not-asked-for sequels to any number of environmental, health, political and business events/challenges/crises. …

How would you perceive yourself if you could look into your own life from afar, as a distant objective observer? What would you learn? What would you change? This morning I went to a local café as I often do on Wednesday mornings to get some space to work on…

What will it take for you to change? Despite our best intentions, often it takes some sort of trigger like a job loss, relationship breakdown, or other setback to make us reconnect with what is really important. …

What drives you? It can be fascinating and revealing to look back at periods in your life and try to work out what the “light” was that you were following at the time. What were you aiming for, what were you running towards or away from? Thinking about what’s driving…

What is driving you to reach your aspirations? I’ve come to the understanding that there are broadly three pieces or parts to achieving, in a sustainable way, your greatest aspirations: Foundation — a basic understanding of who you are, what is important to you, and integration across the five “spokes”…

How will you approach, and reach your dreams? We all dream, to a greater or lesser extent, of a different or better life. The challenge is that these dreams can be as amorphous, ephemeral and variable as clouds. Lacking substance, but nice to look at on sunny day. …

Over the past year, I’ve been writing a new book, Ascending Growth, with co-authors Eve Chen and Ljubica Radoicic. What started as some informal feedback on a friend’s, Eve’s, manuscript, became a work project that we three collaborated on. I eventually ended up joining as a co-author. Writing a book…

In the postscript to his autobiography, From the Cockpit, car legend Bruce McLaren reflected on the racing death of teammate Timmy Mayer: “The news that he had died instantly was a terrible shock to all of us, but who is to say that he had not seen more, done more…