I’ve been having lots of conversations recently about parenting – the energy frazzling challenges (and of course the returns) of being a present, conscious, supportive, responsive not reactive, healthy, fulfilled parent and all the other things you need to be and do in life.

Take a moment now and bring your awareness to your stomach.

In the Sierra Diablo mountain range in West Texas, there’s a group of engineers, designers and big thinkers that are building a giant mechanically engineered clock that will track and mark the hours, days, years, centuries, millenniums and planetary rotations of the next 10,000 years.

I love this time of year as there’s a real invitation to be with yourself more – with your family, your joy, your pleasure, your accomplishments, your desires, your intentions.

The surprising, and beautiful thing about meditation, is that it doesn’t solve all my problems, it expands the way I understand my mind, which shifts the way I orientate to my problems.

Learning agility is said to be one of the key characteristics of successful leaders.