My Oscar moment The trophy isn’t the real win (although it’s very nice ????) Earlier this month, I won the “Marshall Goldsmith Award for Coaching & Mentoring” at Thinkers50. This...

Tens only Removing the 9.9s One of my big things for next year is to begin working on a new book. What! Another book?! I know, I know, I know....

Black Mountain Tower, Canberra’s bearing point Three ways to get your bearings (Ha! I’d forgotten that the newsletter section before the article was titled “take your bearings” … so clearly,...

The home I grew up in … How it was (painted by my grandfather, Bob). And how it looks now. Why endings matter The home I grew up in sells...

The grace of Federer and the power of Williams … said no-one ever Michael practicing hitting off the front foot Are you on the front foot or the back foot?...

Flowers. And espresso. ♥️ An essential upgrade? I’m on one of my trips to Australia, and for the first time, I’ve had to rent an apartment in Canberra. The family...

Rocking the beat with my watermelon uke Changing the rhythm They say the universe tends to entropy, and everything will, in the end, fall apart and go dark. That’s certainly...

Fresh-faced Michael, 1991 Is it time to be different? My dad was a bit of an archivist – that man loved to file – and so while helping my mum...

My first book in 2005 (the most complicated book in the world) was all about this  Seven questions I use to get unstuck It’s a month of pithy newsletter articles,...

A cluster of inspiration What if … ? The first company I worked with after leaving university was? What If! We called it ?! for short (I’m not sure why...

Theory and practice for the exercise ahead Are you telling the same old story? Summer here in the Northern Hemisphere, and it’s often a chance to get away from the...

I’m moisturizing like a Badass! How I’m deliberately authentic My podcast interview with Lewis Howes went live yesterday. Lewis is a big name in the pod world. As evidence, when...