“This is one of those 2 mugs of coffee starts to the day,” I said out loud to the only person in the room: me. It was 7.20am and still gloomy. The thick February cloud cover tempered the post-sunrise light, and my home office was dark. The kettle made early signs of life as it began to heat the water for my first caffeine hit. The ceiling light was on in my office, but it didn’t seem to be doing much good. I’d worked late the night before, having unplugged my laptop and taken

I don’t like being told what to do. I never have. I would always rebel against it, according to my mother, long before I could remember. While my defiant nature has mellowed over the years, mainly because I got into too much trouble, and I disliked the implications of being in trouble more than I disliked being told what to do. Still, I don’t like it. When I first went full-time into the people development world back in 1999, I already knew that getting people’s buy-in was a

I didn’t know what I knew until I said it out loud, into the room. “If there’s such a thing as Universal Mind, wisdom, a real-time intelligence, or whatever our word is for that… if that’s real, then it makes sense for me to let that take the lead in my life. I’ve pondered it. And to me it looks true. Real-time intelligence, responsive to life in the moment, always has my back. Always. It’s done all the heavy lifting in my life. My ego might not like that notion, yet it looks