Responding to the Contagion of Burnout Energy
I saw a reel earlier that made me notice how burnout spreads. An entrepreneurial self-help influencer told followers to demand more power, money, and visibility…
Category: Notes From a Slow Coach
Mapping Our Relationship With Certainty
Slowing down our thinking can help us process more deeply and explore what is going on beneath the surface. I’ve been noticing that when thinking…
Why You Can’t Articulate a Five-Year Plan For Your Life
Where do you see yourself in five years? Does that question fill you with excitement, or a sense of dread? We are wired differently. For…
Choose Your Own Price Coaching – What I’ve Learned and Why I Still Do It
I realised earlier this week that it’s been three years since I first adopted a “choose your own price” model for Pick The Lock coaching…
The hope kills us…sometimes
There is the kind of hope that sustains and the kind that exhausts. As I write this, we are in the middle of an Ashes…
The Urge to Explain, Justify, and Tidy Feelings
When do you sense the urge to explain, justify, or tidy what you feel? This was our question for the week, and in this week’s…
Wandering on the edge of usefulness
Have you ever noticed that you are still doing or using the same thing you did years ago, with no apparent reason? Some things naturally…
It doesn’t mean anything…and that’s the point
Does something need intentional meaning to be meaningful? This might sound like an odd question, but it’s been gnawing at me since our Haven Journal…
This is a Self-Help Illusion, Not Responsible Coaching
Sometimes I stumble on something that captures what feels off about the way we think about progress, purpose, and success. It happened earlier this week……
In defence of “wasting” time
Are you worn out by the pressure to be useful, always working to prove your worth through productivity? I saw this post on Threads a…