Productivity

So there we were, the four of us, each standing on a rock in the stream and our hearts pounding with fear.  We were a team but we may as well have been 100 miles apart. We were on a "team building" weekend for a leadership program we ran together.  Sally, Rich, Ange and I.  We were taking on the 7 km bush track from Lorne up to Erskine Falls and at exactly halfway in Sal walked over a tiger snake. Sal was on one side of the path and the rest of us were stuck paralysed on the other side. Too scared [...]

If you were stranded on a desert island and you could only bring three things with you, what would they be? Me? I’d take... mint slices soda water gratitude Gratitude? What?! It’s not so I can sit on the beach looking out at the ocean and feeling blissful and #blessed being stranded. It’s not about positively thinking my way out of this Castaway situation. It’s about survival. Because right now, if you're stranded on a desert island, then you’re likely reeling with a negativity bias. You’re dialled into the worst case [...]