When it comes down to life decisions - which career to follow, who to love, whether to become a vegan - we often get sidetracked by other people’s opinions. Here’s why and how not to, told through a funny story.

Let me ask you something: do you remember the best manager you ever had? Of course you do! It’s like asking who was your favourite teacher. I would bet a good amount of money that one of their traits was their ability to make you feel heard and supported during your 1:1 meetings with them.

In 2018, I made a sensible decision and became an accountant. Three years later, sitting alone in an office booth after giving a wellbeing talk to my team, a thought landed: "This is it." But from that day I had no plan, just a direction. Here’s Pat’s perspective on purpose, told through his story on how he found his.

Life was supposed to get smoother by now. Instead it feels heavier: the side roads, the slower climb, the plan that didn't quite go to plan. That heaviness has a name - it isn't failure. It's friction. Here's why it's the thing you push off from, not the thing holding you back.

All of us in this self-improvement game will at some point hit a strange wall: the habits are dialed in, the routine is locked, energy is good and yet something still feels missing.

This is the story of what I found on the other side of that wall and why the fix wasn't another habit, but something much more powerful.

Predictable questions (how to get promoted) have predictable answers (work a bit harder, learn something new). The big life questions have unpredictable answers. Here’s how we can find the answers in a different way.