I carefully tore the page from the fold of the magazine and used a ruler and an exacto knife to straighten the edge. With four brass thumb tacks, one in each corner, I pinned the image onto my corkboard. The headline, typed in a classic condensed font, consisted of three little words: Be the light. These are the very words that inspired the birth of this business all those many years ago. To this ...

Is that even real? It’s a knee-jerk response most of us now have to any sort of remarkable media, be it aired on conventional channels or posted via social platforms. The prevalence of AI is making us lose our already tenuous grip on reality. However, I am going to argue this is a good thing. When we blur the lines of what’s “real”, it moves us beyond our fixed limitations and opens us to new pote...

The old paradigm of work is at death’s door, breathing its last gasps. The days of toiling away at less-than-desirable tasks all the while sacrificing our precious resources, such as our energy and time, for the sake of “earning a living” are over. Instead, it is the dawning of a new era in work – an era where inspiration, creativity, and abundance reign supreme.

A “job” vs “work”

The word “job”...

When I first started slacklining, I was surprised by how quickly it became one of my favourite recreational activities. Before I ever attempted it myself, I would watch others practicing and it seemed either too boring or too acrobatic for me. I learned it is neither of those things.

I felt similarly about creating. I used to think it was an activity that was just “not for me”. It seemed to belon...

I believe in humanity. Yes, we are currently acting out some of the darkest aspects of our being. Some of it is ugly. Some is diabolical. Some is loathsome. Much of it discouraging. Yet, I still believe in humanity.

Any which way you look, wars are being waged. Whether the battles are happening on the ground or in the political arena, violence continues to be used as a tool to dominate and oppres...

On my former island home, I met a gentleman with whom I was going to collaborate on a community development project at the time. During our initial conversation, our rapport was easeful and we were aligned on many of the issues, but then he said to me, “This island has too many trees.” Cue the awkward silence. I’m sure he could see my entire body stiffen. I let the silence grow between us to indic...

Stagnation is my personal kryptonite. If you have ever been witness to me getting stuck, whether it’s in the outer world standing on a mountain ledge or if it’s within my own inner being trapped in a cycle of old patterns, you will also likely have seen me have a tragic meltdown. Everything in how I show up as a human is related to making forward movement. So when I get stuck, I’m blocking the nat...

Last month, it was my turn to experience the coronavirus for the first time (and hopefully the last). It was brutal. I understand the experience is different for each person, however, for myself, I had every one of the potential symptoms. Every single one. The worst, though, was the headache pain. It was like a vice grip being slowly tightened around the circumference of my head. The pressure was ...

“I miss that part of myself,” I said to my then business client. My words hung awkwardly in the air, as if I had spoken a truth I wasn’t supposed to say. I’m sure my client wasn’t interested in hearing what I didn’t like about my work, but to me, my admission was like a siren piercing the silence of my own apathy. I couldn’t unhear my own words. It left me wondering what others parts of myself I w...

Two decades ago, I would have been hard-pressed to define inspiration, let alone have the embodied experience of it in my work. It is a concept that is difficult to express fully using words as it is more so a felt experience than an intellectual one. Through teaching the subject of inspired work, I have continued to study inspiration to further integrate it into my own being and to better underst...

Some people never think of themselves as creators because when they were young they were taught that being “creative” meant being “artistic”. If they did not feel called to express themselves using an artistic medium such as writing, painting, or dance, for example, then they might have mistakenly labelled themselves as “not creative”. It was never made clear to them that there are limitless other...

“It’s going to take how long?” she asked. A couple of years ago, a lovely human reached out to me to discuss her work situation. She found her work to be “dull” and “repetitive”. She wanted to find something more inspiring and more fulfilling, but she wasn’t clear about what that was. During our discovery session, she decided she was keen to enroll in the Vision Program. However, when she learned ...