Design beats discipline

Discipline, like goals, is overrated. It is likely to help in the short term, but is unlikely to be a long-term solution. Motivation wanes for many reasons, human nature takes over, and momentum is lost.

Turning knowledge into wisdom

To be a teacher, you must be a learner, the mindset to embrace the discomfort and ambiguity of taking yourself beyond the limits of your understanding, but with the view “It is not what I learn today, it is what I will teach tomorrow that is important”.

Did we stay calm?

Many of my personal learnings in relation to resilience come from my lived experience as a CEO of AFL clubs. This was a test I failed often, tough lessons learned when dealing with the ups and downs, often with an inappropriate allocation of emotional resources.

Body, Mind & Craft

For those who have studied high performance, there is no golden thread, but there are common characteristics.

Do your job

Hall of Fame AFL coach Allan Jeans would say “You can’t put in what God left out”.