Table tennis tales – a strange focus hack

In these work-from-home days, one big challenge for me has been distraction and focus. I mean, it's always been a challenge, but the energy of being at work around people would usually keep my mind from wandering too much. I guess this is a problem that many in my millenial generation share. Enough and more…

Seeing clearly…

Anyone who knows me will also know the thick bottle-top glasses that always adorn my face. Vision, therefore, is, clearly, not my strong suit. This is true for both biological and metaphorical vision. There are big, blue sky thinkers, who can dream the unimaginable, and bring it to bear, the bearers of De Bono's famed yellow…

commitment

Commitment is a 12 year old who has never missed a day of school. A child in Class 7, who has not missed a single day of school in the past 7 years. I cannot begin to imagine that. I do not know anyone who has not missed a single day of school, probably even in…

Topping up…

We take it for granted that if we don't eat for a while, we will get hungry. And that without sleep, we will get sleepy. If we don't recharge our phones, we run out of balance. It's pretty obvious, right! And yet, I so often forget that it applies as much to the non-physical things in life.…

All the happy days

I decided to jump on this bandwagon a few days ago, and take part in this slightly strange experiment. Could I find and register one moment of happiness every single day for 100 days? It shouldn't be too hard, and it will, hopefully make me grateful for how bloody lucky I am. So (with a bit…