How often do you remember or tell yourself how amazing you are? Many of us would be the first to admit that we can be our own harshest critics and frequently forget who we truly are. This applies to me as much as it does for many of the people I coach. So you can imagine how thrilled I was when I came across Shirzad Chamine recently. He is a lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of Business in America [...]
Christmas Day was an opportunity for me to do something I had always wanted to do, yet had never quite had the courage to commit to in previous years. Inspired by the seasonal spirit, with three hours to spare and the willing support and collaboration of a few friends in Chiangmai, we all went to the centre of the city and stood in one of the busiest spots we could find - and offered to give "Free Hugs" to whoever [...]
A couple of years ago, I came across an article published in The Guardian about an Australian nurse called Bronnie Ware. She had spent several years working in palliative care, looking after patients in the last 12 weeks of their lives. She recorded their dying epiphanies in a blog called Inspiration and Chai, which gathered so much attention that she put her observations into a book called "The Top Five Regrets of the Dying - A Life Transformed by the [...]
