How to Thrive in Life

12 Dec Eight simple steps to feeling confident

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On flights back to Melbourne from Alice Springs, I love looking down on this amazing and largely inhabitable land of Central Australia. One red sand dune after another. Then ranges of rocky outcrops. Sometimes an area of white sand. Rivers that are dry. Often with trees...

11 Dec Man’s Search for Meaning

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Ah - Viktor Frankl - I’m in awe. After reading his story of how he survived the Nazi concentration camps through maintaining meaning in his life, I am now reading about his work. It’s called Logotherapy. Logos is the greek word for meaning. Frankl says that “man’s search for meaning...

10 Dec Rituals – and what they have to do with modern day change

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Rituals have been part of human life for a very long time, and have, throughout history, been instrumental in fostering the evolution of human development. But why do rituals matter so much, and what place do they have in modern secular life? Start by asking yourself the...

09 Dec Of joy – and the why

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Had two responses to yesterday’s email. Here is the first one: "I am not sure what you are doing with this. I understand the marketing aspect, but this is getting too much." A few hours later I got this email: "Just want you to know I enjoy your mails...