Here’s One Way To Save Your Back
For the last two weeks, the frivolous tones of my tweets were hiding the pain that I was experiencing with my lower back. Oh, what possessed me to move that heavy pot plant of my treasured coriander...
View ArticleHow Working, Connecting and Learning Is Like Driving a Car
Last week I had an opportunity to work with Michelle Ockers who had travelled down from Sydney for work. We caught up at the co-working space at the NAB Village to go through some final editing to...
View ArticleWhat’s Your 100 Year Vision?
This year I started a 12 month business coaching development program through David Guest Business Coaching Solutions. I figured after 24 years of working for someone else, now as a freelancer, it was...
View ArticleJanuary – A Month of Books & Back Pain
What I have Been Working On? My main achievement was completing the development of 4 modules of the Work, Connect and Learn Program for Coca Cola Amatil. This took me over 8 weeks to complete with...
View ArticleMake 2016 The Year to Be That Cool Adult
Make this year that you happen to be that cool adult in a child’s life. What do I mean? Well keep reading and find out! Happy new year everyone! I hope you had a wonderful holiday and looking forward...
View ArticleWhat is Your Life Purpose?
This week a friend had posted this TedX video called How to Know Your Life Purpose on Facebook where Adam Leipzig, an entertainment executive (and author of Film Making in Action) presents five...
View ArticleIt’s a Kinda Magic Augmented Reality
Last year, I attended an expo called Future Assembly and while there, I had an opportunity to participate in an augment reality experiment. A Melbourne based company called Plattar (@PlattarGlobal)...
View ArticleCo-Working at the Docklands Library
Last Friday, I organised a co-working day at the Docklands Library in Melbourne and called it ThirdPlace. I started this meet up group a couple of years ago for people interested in adult education,...
View ArticleWhat’s Your Word for the Year?
Just One Word. For the last two weeks we had a house guest. Every year, our friend who is a tennis fan, comes to stay with us and attend the Australian Open. While he was here, he organised a dinner...
View ArticleHave an iPhone, Will Vlog
By now many of you may have noticed my insane liking to vlogging. Ever since stumbling upon Casey Niestat’s Wildly Functional Studio video on YouTube, I have fallen for the idea of sharing the STORY...
View ArticleHappy New Year
Hello everyone and hello 2017! Happy New Year! I hope that you all had a wonderful holiday break and enjoyed the special times with loved ones as well as took a well earned break now looking forward...
View ArticleLearning is Like Fitness
This year as I started my fitness routine, I was reminded by a quote by Addison who said that “Reading to the mind is what exercise is to the body“. Now I’m not one who loves exercise. In fact, I hate...
View ArticleMy Perfect Job
If you had to write the description of your perfect job, what would it look like? This year I haven’t made any goals or resolutions. I have deliberately decided to keep things open to see how what I...
View ArticleThe Lieutenant
Last year I became obsessed with learning all I could about how Australia was settled. My interest in Australian history was inspired by an Australian author David Hunt who wrote Girt. I had gone to...
View ArticleDo You Find What I Write of Value to You and Your Work?
People tell me that they get a lot of value from reading my blog posts, watching my daily videos where I work and learn out loud as well as the tips in my monthly newsletter. The ideas, hints and...
View ArticleUpdate on Third Place
I wanted to share an update on Third Place. I created Third Place in 2013, a social meet-up, social learning and networking group for people who share a love for lifelong and continual learning. During...
View ArticleWorking Out Loud Circle
I am part of my first ever Working Out Loud Circle this year hosted by Simon Fogg. It may be a surprise to many people that I have not been a member of a circle however, I have read John Stepper’s...
View ArticleReturn to Roots
For a while now, I’ve been contemplating a return to roots. In the last few months from the tail end of annus horribilis that was 2017 to now, a series of events – mainly due to conversations and...
View ArticleWhat’s In Store for You in 2019?
Part of me was looking forward to writing my first post for 2019 but another part of me was dreading it. Over the last couple of weeks having some time off doing nothing much except for reading,...
View ArticleWhen You Realise You Are Wrong – A Twitter Thread
In the last couple of days, I created a twitter thread about a coffee catchup I had and how I was dreading going because mistakenly, I thought this person had a personal issue with my line of work....
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