I blog, randomly about the things I observe and the things I learn.
There is a blog around my new learning adventure on my yacht, called Wright Away, or find a category and explore.
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Exploration
Explorers Co-Create Reality
Here is an interesting take on exploration. Most people (myself included), organise their lives to maximise certainty and predictability. Exploration inverts this relationship, teaching you to navigate and leverage uncertainty. Instead of being stuck in a fixed reality, explorers co-create reality. Think about it. Reality is what you know to [...]
The Struggle to Learn
A longtime diving friend reminded me that starting a new journey can sometimes be hard! She is starting technical diving and the skills aren’t the same as sport diving. I was reminded of what it is like to go from being competent and capable and then find myself struggling – [...]
Ten Years of Being Deepest
On 25 October, 2004 I set the ladies diving depth record. Who knew it would last ten years ? That dive proved to me that who I am isn't set in stone and that all it takes to change is a dream that won't let go! What if who you [...]
Explorers Compass
Act Compass Point
Further Compass Point
Present Compass Point
Why You Need to Practice Detachment
My passion is to be an explorer whose sole job is to create myself - independently of what other people think, of societies labels and expectations and any other definition that tries to box me and create limits. It is enough that my identity has a PhD in creating limits. Enlightenment has created a lasting inspiration for me on this journey and one of the key principles in enlightened being is the concept of detachment, which is not something that comes naturally to us human beings. Our identities love being attached to ‘stuff’ and outcomes that we invent and then [...]
Peace Compass Point
Finding Peace when living in an emotional world
Many people think excitement is happiness. But when you are excited you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace. At any moment, you have a choice, that either leads you closer to your spirit or further away from it. Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything - anger, anxiety, or possessions - we cannot be free." ―Thich Nhat Hanh This connected for me (most of Tich Nhat Hanh's words do even though I am not a Buddhist). Joy is something underneath happiness and [...]
Possibility Compass Point
Explorers Co-Create Reality
Here is an interesting take on exploration. Most people (myself included), organise their lives to maximise certainty and predictability. Exploration inverts this relationship, teaching you to navigate and leverage uncertainty. Instead of being stuck in a fixed reality, explorers co-create reality. Think about it. Reality is what you know to be true. It is your here and now. Exploration takes you out of your comfort zone, extends your reality. You shift from certainty to productive uncertainty. Reality is malleable. Explorers have experienced firsthand that reality isn’t something that happens to them but a creative process they participate in.
Who is Verna
Verna van Schaik is a Guinness World Record holder for the deepest scuba dive by a woman (221 meters). She has transformed her experience as an explorer into a methodology that helps people break through barriers, overcome obstacles, and achieve what seems impossible in their personal and professional lives. Verna is a qualified life coach. Her professional life is in Software Development where she works with teams to improve delivery capability.
Leaders who create High Performance
When I get asked about what makes high performance and what makes good leaders, I tend to find myself in conversations around what a people do and what they know. It seems to be all about how well everyone knows the theory. All well and good, if you are inside the team and in the doing of the work. Only when I check in and observe really good leaders at work I see something else. The magic isn’t in what a leader knows, it is in how they use what they know. The difference is not doing! Let me [...]