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Beyond the Pages: Why Experiencing an Alternative World is Key for Transformation.
Experience is the blindspot of understanding. In our education systems, we sit in bland classrooms, detached from the phenomena we're...
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- Sep 19, 2023
- 4 min
How a ten-day meditation retreat gave me space for radical presence
10 hours of meditation per day for ten days. Eat, sleep, meditate, repeat. Sounds like a nightmare? It was challenging, but my first ...
- Aug 22, 2023
- 6 min
My Favourite Resources for Navigating an Unravelling World
People often ask me: "Tom, I'd like to learn about 'X'. What resource would you recommend?" Here's a collection of books, blogs,...
- Aug 15, 2023
- 3 min
Critiquing the old story of humanity & creating an alternative
The Old Story is all around us. It's deeply ingrained in our assumptions about the world and our place in it. That makes it incredibly...
- May 12, 2021
- 2 min
10 Principles for Changemakers
Following up from my 12 Principles for an Extraordinary Life, I've written these 10 principles to guide changemakers on their journey's.
- Apr 19, 2021
- 3 min
My Activist Story
I never thought I’d be a climate activist. It sounded too radical. I was eating the fruits from our economic system - capitalising on my...
- Apr 1, 2021
- 2 min
Being yourself in a world that wants you to be somebody else
I've conquered one of my biggest fears: not belonging. I literally broke through it, with those words written on a wooden plank that I split
- Mar 18, 2021
- 2 min
Overcoming what society made you think
We're all living within systems of belief, mostly unknowingly. We cannot develop into self-directed beings without becoming aware of them.
- Mar 4, 2021
- 2 min
How social media re-wires your brain - and what to do about it
I'd open social media, share my ideas, respond to comments - then I'd close it. I couldn't possibly be as intoxicated as everyone else...
- Feb 16, 2021
- 5 min
12 life lessons I learned from creating my first podcast
12 principles, 12 episodes and now, 12 life lessons; that we can all learn from.
- Jan 6, 2021
- 4 min
How to find meaning in your work? My story.
Is it possible to love your work? Here's the story I share in Episode 9 of my Principled? Podcast: ”I'm gonna make money and conquer the...
- Dec 16, 2020
- 3 min
The one thing you must do BEFORE setting your 2021 goals
“I want to work-out more”, “I want to get promoted” , “I want to learn French”. Perhaps you’ve set goals like this for 2021. That’s...
- Dec 14, 2020
- 4 min
Nurturing your relationships
How can you develop and maintain deep relationships? Here's the story I share in Episode 8 of my Principled? Podcast: When I was a...
- Oct 22, 2020
- 2 min
The Joy of Physical Work
Using your body and mind together engages all of your being. Mind-body cognition is one of the most underestimated physiological...
- Jul 30, 2020
- 4 min
Is this business trend destroying your integrity?
You’ve probably heard slogans like these before: make an impact that matters. Build a better working world. Don’t be evil. This latest...
- Jul 16, 2020
- 3 min
Are your work relationships tying you to your job?
In our hunter-gatherer past, all the work we did was for our tribe. We hunted deer and gathered berries to provide for people we cared...
- Jul 2, 2020
- 2 min
Here's what I find meaningful
I’m celebrating six months of being fully dedicated to my purpose. This is what I'm learning about living a meaningful working life.
- Jun 18, 2020
- 4 min
Saying “no” to mediocrity
This is why we settle for mediocre careers and what you can do to escape the trap.
- Jun 4, 2020
- 3 min
How to create your new-normal after COVID
Let’s not be bystanders in our own lives. You can influence your new-normal – even if your societal influence is minimal.
- May 21, 2020
- 3 min
How I left my day job to live my passion
This is how I realised I wasn't pursuing my passion. And the story of what I did next.
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