Truth Bomb Tuesday: Where did these patterns come from anyway? Why do we get stuck in behavioural patterns that don’t serve us? Maybe you grew up in a household where money was always a drama, and now you tighten up and get a shame response every time we talk about money. Or maybe you grew […]
T-Bomb: how to defend your joy in three easy steps
Truth Bomb Tuesday: here’s 3 new ways to think about calling more joy into your life. People tend to see me as a pretty happy person. Some might even call me jolly. And that’s probably right. I think I am a pretty happy person. And look, I recognise that a lot of that comes from […]
T-Bomb: Fail fast, fail furious
Truth Bomb Tuesday: Mistakes are a cost of doing business. “Wow. You work so fast.” I was messing around with my messaging system while a friend was over the other day. I didn’t know what I was doing, but I was trying to figure it out. Click that setting. Have a look. Youtube what that […]
T-Bomb: Why only humans think growth looks like this
Truth Bomb Tuesday: Change is tiny kid’s cardigan. There’s a funny thing that happens when your kids are little. You accumulate your own favourite outfits for them. They’re almost certainly not the clothes that they want to wear all the time themselves. But they’re your favourites. That cute little cardigan. The one piece romper suit. […]
T-Bomb: The ‘hour to midnight’ practice for getting unstuck
Truth Bomb Tuesday: If you only had an hour, you’d be surprised at what you could get done “You’ve got one hour. Go.” That’s the beginning of an exercise I do with my students sometimes. It’s called ‘an hour to midnight’. It’s not particularly complicated. Basically I just give them a task that would normally […]
T-Bomb: Why households let men work more
Truth Bomb Tuesday: The gender pay gap persists, but not for the reasons we commonly think. The Nobel Prizes were awarded last week, and I thought the economics one was a bit interesting. The award went to Harvard Economist Claudia Goldin, making her only the third female economist to win the award, and the first […]
T-Bomb: Man takes 190 electric shocks to avoid time alone
Truth Bomb Tuesday: Are we scared of boredom, or is there something darker lurking beneath the surface? A lot of people struggle to spend time with their thoughts. They crave distractions. There’s no news there. But a recent study has shown that people would even prefer to give themselves an electric shock than be stuck […]
T-Bomb: Sour grapes is a trap. There are others.
Truth Bomb Tuesday: This is what the sour grapes fable was actually about. I want to show you something important. It starts with the story of sour grapes. We all know that one. The Fox can’t reach the grapes he wants and so tells himself that those grapes were probably sour anyway. Now the thing […]
T-Bomb: Why you need successful friends
Truth Bomb Tuesday: The power of networks is actually astounding. I have an argument with my marketing guys pretty regularly. At ILRE we have a range of systems and strategies that people can access. And they also have a powerful community that they can be part of. Which one do you think is more important […]
T-Bomb: What stunned me about the Matildas run
Truth Bomb Tuesday: Not every nation has a team like the Matildas. Not every nation even wants to. Watching the Matildas run over the past few weeks has been pretty exciting. And look, I’ll be honest. I’m not really a soccer girl, so I’m not going to pretend to jump on that bandwagon. But it […]