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When you hear yourself (or someone else) say this phrase, it’s actually all over. The supplier. The company you hired. The employee. The strategic partner. The accountant. The client. The advisor. The minister. The author. The influencer. The lecturer. The date. The….whoever. I have heard this phrase used by so many people for so long,

This image is me. In every major achievement in my life, I’ve gotten cold feet or slowed down or hesitated or got sick or something, right before the end. Depending on how significant the achievement is, it might be a day or a week before I get there, or it might be a few months.

Want to get better at something? Do it every day for 100 days. That’s it, that’s the Note. Okay…you know me, that’s not completely it. Naturally I have more to say. But if you read nothing else, grasp that. If you’re going to get better at something – writing or recording video or posting on

When I was younger, in America, we used to play a game called “red light green light”. 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 “green

You’re exhausted. Some of you have literally taken only a few days’ holiday in the entire year (or since March anyway). It’s time for a rest – a real one. An honest to goodness, don’t check emails or Slack or messages or even social media or your phone, rest. It’s the difference between being “off”…

When you tap into the creativity within, you tap into the child you….and sometimes the fears and resistances which come along with them. I was a guest on a podcast recently called “What’s your ‘and’?”. Everyone has an ‘and’, something they do or enjoy or create when they’re not working, and the podcast host, John Garrett,

We have to make sense of things. Somehow. And if things don’t make sense, or don’t 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. We’ll say “oh, I see, they wrote that email in that

I’ve 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 what’s hard…it doesn’t magically make the hard things good. Or transform them. Sometimes (most times) they’re bad in and of themselves. Things like Covid. And lockdown. And back

I read this sentence today and needed to pause to think about it for a little while. “There is more happening while we wait than just waiting.”  The author was talking about how frustrating it is to wait. How weary we get, how cranky and frustrated and wishing it would be over – so we

Hello everyone! I’m back! Really actually missed writing these Notes, come to think of it. I like the routine and pattern, and I love the thoughtful replies I get and the good conversations it starts. Being off for three whole weeks, consecutively, has shown me a few things. Chief of which is that taking time