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
Exploring Curiosity
Exploring Momentum
You aren’t looking in the right place – The power you have to change the world!
We all know the quote, be the Change. It is quite tired and hauled out regularly to inspire us workers. Ghandi's actual words are quite different and perhaps more powerful, "We but mirror the world. All the tendencies present in the outer world are to be found in the world of our body. If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him. This is the divine mystery supreme. A wonderful thing it is and the source of our happiness. [...]
What I Said to the Dalai Lama
Well, not yet! But much to my delight, my May trip to Dharamsala with Street School Journeys inclides the possibility of meeting him if he is in residence and it suddenly struck me that I need to have something to say...because I suspect, "Howzit!", won't cut it. Nor will, "Thank You!" And I guess he gets a lot of, "I am your biggest fan", so what do I say should I meet the DL himself ? Perhaps I should say, " Thank You for your words, they got me a world record!" Because they did. It took me 2 years [...]
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 [...]
Activate Myself
Lessons from a World Record – Persistence
It is rare these days that I remember Boesmans and the huge amount of effort that it takes to dive there. I chose to build a cottage, fix it, be off the grid and move in within 4 weeks. Which would have worked if the build wasn’t 2 weeks late [...]
The How of “How” – Making the Unknown Known
If I had to sum up the one skill that a world record needs it is the ability to turn the unknown into the known (and dare I say, make it boring). To shift a limit – be it a personal one or a world one – you need to [...]
Living with Dare – Questions for Creation
Living with Dare is something that has evolved over the last decade. I realised that I wasn’t happy with who I was or the life I was living. It looked good, but it didn’t seem to fit! I had a world record but couldn’t seem to take that limit shattering [...]
Activate Team
Activate Leadership
Personal Mastery
Dreams, Dreaming and Reality
I have been putting together my talk for TEDxSoweto (02 November, can’t wait) and some interesting things have come up for me. Dreams are not about world firsts, they are about YOU doing something for the first time which means all dreams are equal because all first are equally intimidating. [...]
When You Start Believing the World – Read This! Immediately!
It doesn’t matter if someone else things you are useless or inadequate. Really, it doesn’t! What matters is what you think! You probably haven’t been taught to override someone else’s judgement and opinion of you and what you are doing, you should have because what people think comes from their [...]
Find Your Dare – Create Anything
This is the title of my soon to be presented TEDxSoweto talk and it inspired me so much I took the structure and turned it into an essay. Something that wraps my blogs and facebook posts into one place. Not the book I want to write, but part of it. [...]