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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Exploring Agency
How You Talk To Yourself Counts – What Words Are You Using ?
We are so used to our thoughts that we don’t even notice them, even though they drive all our choices. What I love about thoughts is that they aren’t choices. They happUnderlineen on their own, without us. And even more disturbing, they create every moment we live…whether we are aware [...]
An experience is never factual but only conceptual
I loved reading this! It is from one of my favourite authors, Jed McKenna, who has a way of looking at the world that will turn your worldview on its side. What if my experiences are loosely based on fact and are nothing but perception ? Am I even able [...]
How we Use Stories to Limit Ourselves
What if the stories you tell yourself about who you are and what is happening to you are choices ? What if you could choose powerful, liberating stories where you are the hero and let go of the one’s where you have no choice and are a victim ? When [...]
Exploring Curiosity
Why you need to start learning again !
What if learning wasn't about getting the right grade ? What if learning/ education was a Tool ? Yes, I am reading again, a rather fascinating book called Punished by Rewards (Alfie Kohn) that will change the way you see the world around you, how you interact with it and [...]
What if you lived with Dare ?
Breaking a world record requires an intimate understanding of fear, both physical and mental. It requires an ability to see limits and so push past them and it requires courage, the courage to keep going, the courage to trust yourself and not listen to the so-called betters, the courage to [...]
Opening Yourself Up to Possibility – Paradigm Shifting/ Using Your Point of View
If you changed one thing today it would be the way your Points of View run your life. They ensure you stay this side of what is 'right', missing opportunities simply because of your point of view. What if there was no right or wrong ? What if there were just Interesting Points of View that you didn't need to get attached to, defend or reject ?
Exploring Momentum
Living from Personal Mastery
Process and skills are only part of the equation. How you use these shifts you into awesome. This is the ‘how’ of Personal Mastery. When you have the ability to choose your actions rather than react then you have the ability to choose your experiences and what happens next. Where is your Personal Mastery at ? Are you living from reaction or from conscious action ? How do you even make that shift ? […]
Stepping Past Fear
The one reason most people never step into their awesomeness is that their fear is too strong. I can relate. Nothing brings fear to the fore quite like doing a dive only 4 other people have done before (and have died doing). In fact, my strongest memory growing up is the constant presence of fear. Apparently Courage is the antidote, only where do you find it ? […]
Becoming Autonomous
Within the corporate world the word ‘Autonomy “is becoming a biggie! The problem is how to create it when the cultures in most large corporates are designed to do anything but create autonomous staff. Our corporate cultures tend to be about hierarchies where a select few get to make decisions and the rest of us get to follow orders. If you live in one of these cultures you will know how dreary they can be. It is as if only a part of you is required to come to the office each day – we leave the rest at the [...]
Activate Myself
Becoming Autonomous
Within the corporate world the word ‘Autonomy “is becoming a biggie! The problem is how to create it when the cultures in most large corporates are designed to do anything but create autonomous staff. Our corporate cultures tend to be about hierarchies where a select few get to make decisions [...]
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 [...]
Escaping from Life’s Dead End (Soul Seeking)
“Do you think he will make it ?” I looked over at my fellow game designer, “Perhaps.” Then again, we didn’t have a good exit rate for this particular challenge. Not that we had been intended it to be this hard – it was supposed to be a final check [...]
Activate Team
Are you Redecorating the Office or Are you Creating Real Change ?
One of my pivotal books at the moment is ‘Spiritual Enlightenment – The Damndest Thing’ by Jed Mckenna. Seems to just hit the spot about where I am and how odd it feels right now – a stranger in a world where everyone else seems to be comfortably normal. Thought [...]
Activate Leadership
Why You Need a Permanent, Internal Leadership Lab!
I facilitate our internal 3 day workshop on Agile Leadership (Servant Leadership based in Roger Schwartz’s book, The Skilled Facilitator ). For one of our bigger programs (around 200 people and about 12 feature teams), I am a permanent fixture with a permanent, dedicated space. We do the training at work which has raised some concerns – surely training should be an event, something special that is done outside the office ? To which I tend to look confused. “Don’t we value learning ? ” […]
Leading, Language and Mindfulness
One of the principles behind our internal Agile/ Servant Leadership program is balancing advocation with inquiry. As the three days progress it becomes clear that people don’t have clarity around what advocation is – yes it is telling and instructing, but there is a more subtle form, where you speak in statements. When you speak in a statement you declare something to be true and that opens the door for disagreement as it often clashes with someone else’s point of view. In Ontological coaching this is phrased slightly differently, with language having 6 forms and advocation being a blend of [...]
Leading using Freedom
I love how information suddenly pops up, especially information around my favorite topic, becoming free! I am not talking about physical freedom or even financial freedom, I am talking about the freedom to make different choices and experience different things. Freedom for me is to experience my day to day differently, from a different set of emotions (so not anxiety or dread or shame). Simply put, if we keep on making the same decisions we will experience the same results and never get to that ‘there’ we are looking for. For leaders this is especially true as we are often charged with [...]
Personal Mastery
Stepping Past Fear
The one reason most people never step into their awesomeness is that their fear is too strong. I can relate. Nothing brings fear to the fore quite like doing a dive only 4 other people have done before (and have died doing). In fact, my strongest memory growing up is [...]
Becoming Autonomous
Within the corporate world the word ‘Autonomy “is becoming a biggie! The problem is how to create it when the cultures in most large corporates are designed to do anything but create autonomous staff. Our corporate cultures tend to be about hierarchies where a select few get to make decisions [...]
13 Years as Deepest – Where Are The Women ?
Today, back in 2004, after almost 6 hours in the water I surfaced with a new Guinness World record for the Deepest dive by a Woman in Scuba! My dive to 221m also broke my existing record set in 2001 for Cave diving and altitude! I have held world record [...]