Planting the acorn
This is one of my favourite analogies. Achieving meaningful things in life requires a meaningful commitment. When given enough time, anything you commit to will become meaningful (from both a good and bad perspective). So it helps a lot if you take the time first to determine what initiative you want to commit to. This […]
A product of our times
If I was born 50 years ago, I’m very sure I would be a smoker. The external influences to take up smoking were very strong – it was a mainstream part of society, tobacco companies spent a lot of money to make smoking look cool, and smoking came with a high degree of social acceptance. […]
How to achieve your lifelong dream
I’m a big fan of Phil Keoghan, the host of The Amazing Race! Early in his career, Phil hosted a show called No Opportunity Wasted. The premise of the show was to encourage people to live their dreams. These are dreams that people have been holding onto their whole lives, so it must have taken […]
To learn, teach
At QLA, our mission is to help as many young adults live life on their terms. Coaching is typically a one-to-one engagement, and while we have amazing conversations on an individual level, we want our impact to go beyond this. We developed the Quarter Life Framework not just because it works, but because it is […]
How do you make others feel?
When I was Head of Operations at an investment fund, it was my job to solve problems as they arose. I was very clear on my role, and everyone in the office was clear on my role too. What I didn’t appreciate though was that most of my interactions with others would revolve around problems. […]
Rules or freedom?
In order to succeed in life, does one need more rules or more freedom? This concept can be very challenging for us to consider, as we each have a natural tendency towards one or the other. For those of you like me who enjoy thinking of the world in terms of systems, it can be […]
Zion
If you’re looking for a little inspiration and motivation today, watch this 11-minute documentary. That’s all I’ll say 🙂
Disrupt your life
Retailers love to know when you have a major life event – babies, moving house, a new job. That’s because we are creatures of habit with our buying preferences. Once we get into a routine, it’s very hard to shift. But whenever our routine is sustainably disrupted, we are at our most open to changing […]
Schedule send or Schedule receive?
A whole new world opened up when email providers gave us the option to choose the time our emails are sent. Before, if we were typing an email at midnight, we either had to send the email in real-time (which would be made very clear to the recipient), or we had to leave the email […]
What’s actually stopping you?
So you’ve decided to make a change in your life. That’s great! But it looks like you haven’t started yet. That’s ok. Shall we do an exercise together? Let’s say that I be me and you be you. Me: Hi! That’s so cool you want to make this change. What’s holding you back from taking […]