A Test of Will: Warren Macdonald

Have you ever been in a situation where you absolutely fell flat? Where you just sucked? I have, and it’s not fun. Do you want to compare notes? I’ll go first, then you can share […]

“No Fear”. “There’s nothing to fear, but fear itself”. “Fear no evil”. Talk about a four-letter word! We really don’t like fear, but perhaps it’s time to do some reframing. Back in December I received […]

Now, before we begin, let me be clear. I’m not suggesting you break the law. As if someone from Australia, a country built by criminals whose national hero is the outlaw Ned Kelly, would suggest […]

You can hear a pin drop in every audience I’m in front of when I tell them that living life with no legs is not a big deal… That it’s actually not even that hard…. […]

More often I’m being asked to teach people to become more resilient, and as I’ve said before, resilience is not something that can be learned. Resilience, unfortunately, is something only gained through experience. Through practice. […]

Let’s face it, sometimes, @*&$ just happens. We’re in the wrong place, at the wrong time, and things just go sideways. We’ve all been there. And yet, if we’re honest with ourselves, there’s often a good […]

I’m sure you heard the news last week about four Paralympian’s running a time fast enough to have gotten gold if they had been competing two weeks earlier at the Olympics. And perhaps you presumed, […]

A few weeks ago I had the amazing opportunity to act as a mentor to a group of five teenagers with varying abilities as they learnt to scuba dive in the Cayman Islands. You […]

So the *$#& has just hit the fan and you need to be more resilient. As I’ve said before, it’s too late. Resilience is like a bank account. You only have what you have. That’s […]

Learning that is. We strive; we set goals. We use phrases like “I’m getting there” (or at least I do) to indicate our progress toward a set point; a destination. What if we’ve got it […]