Striking the balance between striving for personal wealth, while treating other sentient beings and flora with respect and compassion. Or not. Instead, just be greedy, ravenous, maximise own gains, and bugger the consequences. Yes, we can be whoever we want to be, but at what cost? To our well-being, to…

Last time I spoke of school-children making do without their smart-phones for periods of time while at school. As a ‘first-world problem’, the merits of this becoming mandated in schools has been hotly debated, among the older, and the younger of course. Is there one right answer that fits all…

In a recent television chat show in the presence of some eminent and most knowledgeable scientists, there was the contemplation of whether a belief in God was incompatible with being committed to the scientific method. So why a Ferris wheel image in the same conversation? Well, a Ferris wheel is…

Who can you trust? What is their motivation? And what are the consequences of seeking mutual benefit? Or maybe, we must get better at delaying gratification. There I was contemplating toward the end of a recent NBA playoff game. In junk time when the result is settled but the clock…

Star Gazer. Created with passion, with attention to detail, and given as a gift to one so deserving. Some things just need to be posted when they are beautiful. Some things are beautiful because they have been created with love, with good intentions and honourably given away, if promised in…

Where are you being led? Where are you headed and who is your guide? Are you on the best path, or do you need to switch direction and be guided by your values and not by those with substantial self-interest? True leadership is honourable. True leaders care about humanity, about…

There is lots of taurus excreta pervading our media and consciousness every day. Please engage your cerebral capacities in such circumstances, especially when the BS is accompanied with a fear narrative. Be emotionally intelligent. Confected fear is used all too often to manipulate the behaviour of others. Forever in the…

Welcome to the light, a place where beauty and joyfulness lives. Sadly, many of us around the world of humanity have been focused on the recent atrocity in one of the great and peace-loving countries on this planet. Many innocent people were needlessly killed, for no reason other than being…

Some might insist that meditation is a mandatory or integral pathway to emotional intelligence or mindfulness. I would suggest it is but one of many pathways to achieving the same. Perhaps we have always had emotionally intelligent people but have only more recently identified it as a phenomenon that is…

Are cockies a little like micro-managers? Too prevalent, annoying and without any useful or obvious purpose. Micro-management is a problem “Micro managed to the point of being numb”. So said once such victim. What are the consequences of being micro-managed? Micro-manager.   On-going stress and anxiety, hyper-vigilance, fatigue, relationship difficulties, conflict,…