When I was younger, in America, we used to play a game called âred light green lightâ. Everyone would line up at one end of the field, or the room, or a wide open space. One person would stand at the front, staring ahead and not able to see those behind them, and shout âgreen
Youâre exhausted. Some of you have literally taken only a few daysâ holiday in the entire year (or since March anyway). Itâs time for a rest – a real one. An honest to goodness, donât check emails or Slack or messages or even social media or your phone, rest. Itâs the difference between being âoffâ…
Right, youâre going to be serious now. Youâre going to focus your energy and attention on marketing a bit more (maybe this is your 2021 plan). But you know marketing always gets put off. You plan an hour or some time to âdo marketingâ and then you get emails and messages and phone calls and
When you tap into the creativity within, you tap into the child youâŚ.and sometimes the fears and resistances which come along with them. I was a guest on a podcast recently called âWhatâs your âandâ?â. Everyone has an âandâ, something they do or enjoy or create when theyâre not working, and the podcast host, John Garrett,
This week is the American holiday of Thanksgiving. As a dual British-American citizen, itâs still a holiday I celebrate here in Scotland, and it really is one of my favourite holidays of all. Because the premise is: things are (or have been) very hard, so you gather together with family, eat good food and lots of it, and you give thanks for it all. For the food, the family and friends and tribe, and all the good things youâve received or experienced even through the hard times.
Iâve been having various levels of back pain for the past seven weeks. (Just in case you donât read the full note: donât worry. Iâve seen a doctor, several physios, and am doing the work, and it is getting better. Itâs just slow. Thatâs sort of the point of the note.) When it first started,
Not long after I set up PF, I identified what I saw as the core foundational âpillarsâ of the company. Things I personally stood for and what I wanted the agency to stand for, too. Those are creativity, integrity, generosity, and rest. (For a while there was one called âserviceâ, but I decided that was less of
We have to make sense of things. Somehow. And if things donât make sense, or donât fit, our brain will work on putting together the reason, the intentions, the story. We will literally make up a story in our own head to help us understand. Weâll say âoh, I see, they wrote that email in that
Iâve been thinking this week about the good things we receive through an experience of hard things. No matter how good the good thing is we receive through whatâs hard…it doesnât magically make the hard things good. Or transform them. Sometimes (most times) theyâre bad in and of themselves. Things like Covid. And lockdown. And back
We donât like change. No matter how we dress it up, even when sometimes it can feel adventurous or exciting or bold or brave, thereâs still a part of us which is uncomfortable with any change, and therefore resists it. Some of us are more like that than others. Or perhaps what I mean is,
