Unlock your potential and create a life of your design with this creative visioning exercise.

Reflections from a recent week off work, swapping productivity for pleasure.

It’s in the dark, quiet places of the world that creations are born. Often unrecognisable at first - what is this thing I’m building?

There’s nothing better than a good book to supercharge motivation levels.

Here are the creativity books I continue to return to and the ones up next on my bedside table.

"In the end, they wanted security more than they wanted freedom." - Edward Gibbon

Reflections on choosing freedom over security.

Spending time alone in public doesn’t always come easy. What comes up for you? Do you feel bored or judged by others? Do you feel exposed or unsafe? Or do you relish in your own company?

Inspired by Nina Karnikowski’s book, Go Lightly- How To Travel Without Hurting The Planet, here are 5 x ways I’m traveling more consciously through Vietnam.

It’s late afternoon and I’ve not long awoken from a nap on the sofa, the sound of waves crashing across the road.

Maple chases rabbits in the garden and I keep looking up to the impossible blue ocean, attempting to put into words something far bigger than I can be bothered to explain right now…

I had an abstract thought this morning whilst journaling.

What if I’ve already lived my life and done everything I’ve always wanted to do. What if all my dreams did come true.

And what if I had died, and been sent back to live it all over again. Because the first time, I’d rushed through.

“Gracious acceptance is an art – an art which most never bother to cultivate. We think that we have to learn how to give, but we forget about accepting things, which can be much harder than giving…. Accepting another person’s gift is allowing them to express their feelings for you”

—Alexander McCall Smith

Or did she relinquish it? Or did she ever even have it?

Over a decade ago, I attempted to live exclusively as an artist. That mystical, romanticised life that has a reputation for being elusive, a struggle or only for the special few.

I’m about to tell you a story that I’d much rather keep to myself. But over my life I’ve learnt, the stories that want to stay secret are the ones most important to share.

Leonard Cohen said; “There’s a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.” Cracks appear in our lives when it’s time for a new experience. But sometimes that space feels like a void that we desperately want to fill…

Writing is a safe space with no judgement or expectation, where I can come as I am. I turn up when I’m tired, excited, irritated, joyful, sick. It’s a container to hold me. It’s a conversation without the need for other, where I connect to the wisdom of the creative voice within.

Making our claim- for ownership of our own space and time.

In a world that buys, borrows and steals it.

What does it look like to consciously choose how we move through this world, rather than default to our habitual program?

To consider that life is the leader, the creator, and that I’m the follower, is revolutionary to me. It’s humbling.

But of course, why would my mind know better than its creator?

Boundaries can sometimes look like upsetting and disappointing other people.

Putting our own needs first may result in someone not getting what they need from us.

And this can hurt.