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  • The presenting of intent

    Think about the project you’re working on. It’s likely focused on helping our customers achieve some sort of goal effectively. Maybe it’s surfacing a mistake in a pay run, or finding an old bill…

  • Fighting the Water

    Why is it difficult to relax? Let’s look at how relaxing might help you swim more easily. I finally relaxed…I actually started to listen to my hands, to what’s going on in the water…

  • Pain face

    “Make friends with pain, and you’ll never be alone,” Ken Chlouber, creator of the Leadville Trail 100 When you first start cycling, the pain you feel in your body appears to be binary. Lungs…

  • The Wim Hof Method – Book review 

    The rationale of yogic breathing exercises: Practised systematically, these exercises result, after a time, in prolonged suspensions of breath. Long suspensions of breath lead to a high concentration of carbon dioxide in the lungs…

  • The shadow library

    “The shadow is the self’s emotional blind spot”. You could say that your shadow is reflected unconsciously in certain things you do: your responses, your aversions, addictions, and even the books you read. Last…

  • The Terrible, Horrible Wave

    “There’s never a point in surfing when you don’t have fear.”  Kelly Slater Want to go for a surf? Before you jump in the water, be aware that the following events may happen: Staring…

  • Whole brain design

    In 2023, it’s a bit passé to label an activity, person or job with ‘left-brain’ or ‘right-brain’. But most of us intuitively understand the difference. Left-brainers appear to be more organised and good with…

  • Swimming with discomfort

    From April – August 2020, I tried to swim very often in the sea. Usually every other day for 20-30 minutes. The trouble was the temperature of the water. Before my swim, was a…

  • The time Murakami ran 62 miles

    The following is an excerpt from the book “What I Talk About When I talk about Running” by Haruki Murakami. He’s running an ultra-distance race. While I was enduring all this, around the forty-seventh…