Your
What’s
Wildest
Dream?
You might already know your answer, or maybe you don’t.
Perhaps you are working hard, but your life lacks meaning, purpose, direction.
Maybe you already know who you are and where you want to go, but you are struggling to keep up.
You know that your approach is unsustainable but you do not know a better way.
You are exactly where you need to be.
Here, with us, Jack and Pat, at Wildest Dream.
Hi, we’re Patrick and Jack
We work with people exactly like you, from London to Prague to Bangkok.We are building a platform, movement and worldwide coaching community which we are calling Wildest Dream.
It is a journey with three chapters centred around:
Know Thy Self: Values, Strengths, Passions
Know Thy Path: Fulfilment, Vision, Wildest Dream
Know Thy Steps: Mindset, Energy, Habits.
If one thing captures the essence of what we do, it is the opening lines of the 700 year old Dante’s Inferno:
When I had journeyed half of our life’s way,
I found myself in a shadowed forest,
For I had lost the path that does not stray.
Check out this week’s blog written by Jack.
Here’s How to Stop Playing The Wrong Game
It was normal to go to a good school. Normal to go on amazing holidays. Normal to go through $70,000 of higher education. Normal to think the only two career paths out of business school were investment banking and management consulting. Normal to move to Thailand on an amazing salary. Normal to be told you could be the company’s zone president. Normal, normal, normal.
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Popular Articles
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Wildest Dream is the new business that Jack and I have started, but it is also more than that. Wildest Dream is a mindset, a way of life.
Each individual, leader, and team that we work with is unique, and that uniqueness is something which we celebrate. But, when I sit to think about these great people, and about Jack and myself, I ask:
“What are those common threads that enjoin us?” And here’s what comes to mind.
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Discipline, does not shackle, it frees. Frees us from our ingrained drive for status, approval, comfort and excess. The biological mechanisms which helped our ancestors survive in the harsh Savannahs, but which have become maladaptive in the overabundant society in which we live today.
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That’s the thing about life, you have to try things in the full knowledge that it could be a terrible idea. A Brit moved to Sri Lanka to try the digital nomad life and ended up starting my new favourite Black Honey Café. So, try something, at the very least you’ll get a cool t-shirt, at best you might open a new café.
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Conformity is good, but it has never led to the creation of the Apple Macintosh or the lightbulb. The two Steve’s sat in their parents’ garages making computers and Thomas Edison spent 1000s of hours failing to eventually create a working lightbulb. The world doesn’t change when people remain the same. The world changes when a critical mass of humanity slips out of alignment of the norms of society.
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Check out all of our other articles at the bottom of this page.
We bring a shared foundation in global corporate finance, with careers that have taken us across continents.
Check out our Contact & Services page for more details on us and the coaching process.
If you want to start somewhere, follow your journey through Know Thy Self and Know Thy Path.
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Or, keep checking out our other articles below.
Are You Missing Out On Freedom?
What is truly wild is doing exactly what you want to do. Free of the baggage of judgement – positive and negative – from others. When we are 5, 10, 15 and 20, someone has always laid out the next steps for us. Then something happens when we move through our twenties. We let go of that belief that everything is decided for us. Instead, we realise that it’s always been our choice.
Want To Start Waking Up Earlier? Try This
I then went away and created this simple, five-step process for you. It’s science-backed, tried and tested and rooted in circadian biology. The goal: to enable you to wake up earlier consistently - not just for a week, but for good. No more snoozing the alarm, rushing through the morning and sprinting into the office. Instead, you could be arriving each day into the office well-rested, energised and with that deep sense of satisfaction having already won your morning.
We Aren’t A Sleep Business. We Are In The Business Of Dreaming
We can see that being a dreamer of the day is indeed a remarkably beneficial thing to do. So the question is, how do we encourage this dreamlike state, this cocktail of chemicals, even whilst we are awake? Use these three tips to reduce your noradrenaline, boost your dopamine and elevate your acetylcholine.
This is Why You Feel Fatigued
Brain fog, constant distraction, that heavy sense of mental fatigue - they’ve become all too common features of modern working life. But it doesn’t have to be this way. By understanding how attention works, and making small shifts in how we use it, we can dramatically improve our focus, to supercharge our productivity while increasing the quality of our output.
The Three Princes of Serendip
This desire for magic perfectly catches the point of the question, ‘what is your Wildest Dream?’ It is finding the harmony between planning and going with the flow, setting goals and creating space to explore, keeping habits and starting new ones. There comes a time when you just have to trust in the process, to let go, and to anticipate that magical moments will happen.
Wherever We Go, There We Are
It’s Monday. You drag yourself out of bed, sleepwalk through showering, brushing your teeth and getting ready for work. You’re now on the tube, surrounded by solemn faces rocking back and forth in the rattling carriage. You sit and think of the problems ahead of you this week: the tough client conversation you need to have, the looming project deadlines and the ever-growing life admin to-do list.
I Followed My Heart From The Portobello Road To Wildest Dream
“Could we…” Anna starts before Cathy shouts, “there is nothing you can do here!” Cathy goes on and on. Anna and I nodding in complete agreement at the berating we are receiving on behalf of our masters. It was a face I was very adept at making, smiling and nodding whilst I got shouted at. ‘Yes, you are right, we are assholes.’
Einstein, Egg And Cress
Maybe it was the gym. You got the membership, bought the gear, and rode the wave of motivation for a week or two. But then work got busy, life got noisy, the wave flattened, you found excuses not to go and the new ritual slowly faded.
Insights and inspiration in your inbox
Tired of drifting? Jack writes stories, insights and inspiration around who you are: Strengths, Values, Passions and where you’re going: Fulfilment, Vision, Wildest Dream.
Feeling tired, stressed and time-poor? Pat brings perspectives, tools and practices from his Sustainable High Performance Approach: enabling you to build Energy, embrace Challenge, and balance Stress.