A Perspective on Joy
By Don / Date: May 8th, 2019
In my view… Joy is not a feeling in the common interpretation of the word. Joy is a state of being. Joy is expansive – it is large enough for all emotional states to be present within it. Anger is not the opposite of Joy. Joy is not achieved through banishing Anger or grasping for […]
You have seen everything
By Don / Date: April 30th, 2019
I am glad the sun is shining today. That the sky is blue, the wind is light. I am glad that tiny girl came up to pat you as we just walked in the park – even though you thought she might be after your ball. It feels good that you smelled the smells, and […]
Lane-splitting in the middle of a water-fight
By Don / Date: April 13th, 2019
Back home in Canada – this would never happen. Traffic is moving slowly – almost at a standstill. And there are spaces where with some creative maneuvering you could pass through on two wheels. It is a controversial practice in north america – only a few places have it be legal. Like passing traffic on […]
Is it all black and white?
By Don / Date: March 11th, 2019
I recently presented a talk entitiled ‘If you are not leading, something or someone else is’; introducing a perspective on leadership and team building as part of my work with TeamFlow Coaching. However whilst appropriate for organizations, teams, leaders – this conversation goes deeper. Last week I was in a familiar mental space. Looking at […]
Head in the (tar) sands
By Don / Date: November 22nd, 2018
Photo by Zbynek Burival on Unsplash Some truths are deeply uncomfortable. It does not make them less grounded in objective reality. We have a problem. The times are not only changing, they are poised on a knife edge that leads on one side to increasing degradation of the natural systems on which we depend for our survival, eroded […]
If I were you, I would not start from here…
By Don / Date: October 17th, 2018
My background is in Engineering. I know how to get stuff done. I build a structure based on what I know to get to a result I know is possible by using the tools I know, am familiar with, or that I know exist and are accessible to me. I am good at it. I […]
Drama? or Adventure?
By Don / Date: October 16th, 2018
We sit, after grabbing our Coffees. It is cold outside, but warm in this cozy room. In the background there is the low bubble of conversations happening close by. It does not intrude. We are right here. I have a pen and paper, but I will probably not use them – at least not yet. […]
Cornering theory
By Don / Date: September 17th, 2018
Going fast on a straight line on a Motorbike is easy. You just need the nerve, twist your wrist and the bike will do the rest. Bikes want to go in straight lines. The thing is life, like roads, does not run in straight lines. When I got back on a Motorbike for the first […]
Only Epic Poems
By Don / Date: August 19th, 2018
I meet you in a bright place. We have coffee. Anything could happen.
Right Now
By Don / Date: August 12th, 2018
Presence. So much of what stops me in Life, and in my experience as Coach, stops us human beings is in the family of mental states of worry, regret, guilt and shame. Either we are projecting forward into the future how things may go wrong, or we are locked into an interpretation of the past that […]