Reflections on life and the world around me.

Limiting beliefs prevent us from achieving our full potential. We can choose to try and understand the root cause of the limiting beliefs, deconstruct them, and free ourselves from their impact.

An evolution of my reflection on being a victim and choosing – even if on a subconscious level – to assume the role of a victim, is thinking about how not to handle misfortune. Misfortune can take many forms – from the superficial to the life-threatening. We experience it most days, on some level, in…

I have been a victim of various tragic experiences in my life, and been witness to various tragic experiences of others – including the slow painful death of my brother by cancer, which spread to multiple parts of his body, when he was 11 and I was 7. These experiences shaped me in a very…

I suppose it first makes sense to define what I mean by a partner. I see a partner as someone who is committed to a long-term, monogamous relationship with another person, and as such, willing to provide them with consistent, constructive and meaningful support and love through the good times and the bad. I suppose…

A dictionary definition of a system is “a set of principles or procedures according to which something is done.” While a habit is “a settled or regular tendency or practice, especially one that is hard to give up.” There is clearly some overlap there – a habit being a very human type of system.

There are so many examples of where something positive – be it an action or a way of being, can become destructive through its continued expression. The existence of these tipping points, and the consequences of passing them, can only be known through experience. Through this experience it can hopefully be learnt how to manage…

Everyone makes mistakes. Everyone makes bad decisions. Everyone fails. What we must do is learn from those mistakes, and endeavour not to make the same ones again. We must learn to make better decisions – understand why past decisions led us down an undesirable path. We must pick ourselves up when we have fallen down,…

I’m reading a book by Charles C. Mann called The Wizard and the Prophet. It’s a well written, engaging, and really interesting approach to discussing the issue of climate change, and how humanity could potentially mitigate the consequences of it. Whether through a techno-fix (the approach of the wizards), or through modification of our behaviours…

As a scientific understanding of the microbiome, and its role in our mental and physical health and general wellbeing, it reinforces the value of food culture. Since us homo sapiens came on the scene, and our ancestors prior to that, there has been the development of food culture – the acquisition of knowledge around food…

As you get older it’s inevitable that you would reflect on the decisions you’ve made. Where we are at any given moment, is a result of the choices we have made during the ever-increasing number of moments that has been and gone. If you’re not happy with where you’re at at a given moment, and…