Notes From a Slow Coach

Notes From a Slow Coach is my regular blog-style newsletter where I explore something that has recently caught my attention. I often unpack ideas, assumptions, and trends that, if left unexamined, risk diverting us from our natural rhythms and depths. And consider meaningful ways to resist and rebel sustainably, gently, and creatively.

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I often release video versions of the posts, which you can find through the NFASC Playlist on YouTube.

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Previous Posts

Choose Your Own Price at the Fireside

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…

It's the hope that kills you sometimes

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…

Sensing The Urge to Explain, Justify, or Tidy

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…

The Edge of Usefulness

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…

Stop Trying To Make It Mean Something

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 not a coaching conversation

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……

Creativity is Always Working

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…

AI Adverts - What is Happening

A “real” man, you say?

A couple of months ago, my Instagram feed started showing me strange, AI adverts for military workouts. Possibly because I’d been researching calisthenic exercises, or…

Time to start again

Starting again along a familiar path

Have you ever found yourself missing something you once loved, but unsure of how to reconnect with it? Perhaps it has been months or even…

Done is better than perfect

Done is better than perfect

The randomiser wheel picked “Done is better than perfect”. I’m currently using a tool to select phrases for my journal practice. They are all associated…