This post is inspired by the President of Uruguay, Jose Mujica. I’d never heard much about him to be honest, but this week I read about his life as the world’s poorest president. By choice President Mujica lives on his wife’s farm, rather than the presidential digs that his predecessors enjoyed. He drives a 1973 Beetle car and donates 90% of his…Read More

A  family were sitting down to eat waiting for their son to come in from the fields. The son eventually arrived an hour late. His father asked why he’d taken so long, and the boy replied, “I was helping the wheat grow”. The next morning the father went out to the field and all the…Read More

Earlier this week I heard a beautiful quote from Bob Marley. In an interview, with reference to his fame, he was once asked: Are you a rich man, do you have a lot of possessions? He replied: I don’t have that kind of richness, my richness is life. So simple yet so profound and meaningful.…Read More

Inspiration comes in all shapes and sizes, and today I want to share with you a short 3-minute video clip I watch from time to time. It’s called Just a Ride, and it’s by the late, great comedian Bill Hicks. Bill Hicks was known for his comical challenging of politics and religion, and was an extremely intelligent…Read More

I am writing this looking out over the winding waters of the Mekong River in Luang Prabang, Laos. As I sip my coconut juice, I allow my mind to become engaged in the array of beautiful sounds emitting from nature’s bounty: the trees subtly whistling in the sunlight, the warm breeze pushing the current downstream, the sound…Read More

Who am I? Who is the “me”, “the I”; this awareness I feel of being this person. And how does it feel for someone else to be them? Do they feel the same things as I feel being me? “Woah!” Your friends say… …”That’s some deep thinking, man. What have you been smoking?” But don’t let…Read More

As cliché as it may sound, when we are old and grey, most of us will look back and think, “I’d do anything to get that time back”. If we know this to be true, then why are so many of us waiting life out in jobs we hate, wishing the clock would strike 5pm…Read More