Category: Life Lessons

What Happens Inside The Chrysalis

Silence can look like nothing is happening. The caterpillar's quiet weeks inside the chrysalis suggest the opposite: stillness is where the deepest change happens....

Ask Before You Plough Ahead

The road you are about to take has probably been walked before. Asking someone who walked it can spare you the pain of learning every lesson the hard way....

Recognising A Midlife Crossroads

A midlife crisis wears many faces, and spotting it early is how you help someone you love through it. Four signs to watch for, in yourself or in others....

Your Happiness Is Your Own Property

Obstacles arrive and obstacles leave. Your happiness belongs to you, and nothing that is only passing through should be allowed to carry it off....

What Irritation Can Teach You

Some people and situations will always get under your skin. How you answer them, not whether they appear, decides the quality of your days....

Four Reasons To Stop Lying

Small lies feel like shortcuts, then pile up into stress, inner conflict and more lies. Four reasons the truth is the braver and lighter choice....

The Struggle You Do Not See

We see other people's success, never the grind behind it. Picturing the finish line is easy. Planning for the hard stretch in the middle is what gets you there....

The Easy Path And The Worthwhile One

Everything in life is hard before it becomes easy. Eighteen everyday choices where the easy road and the worthwhile road split apart....

Potato, Egg Or Coffee Bean?

Three pots of boiling water, three very different results. A short kitchen parable about how you respond when life turns up the heat....

Find The Passion You Already Have

Your purpose is often hiding in plain sight, in whatever you do with ease. Seven ways to discover it and build a life you love....