When you've put in the work and achieved your goal, it's important to acknowledge your own effort

Last week, I dropped some balls. Intentionally.

And despite society's conditioning that "dropping the ball" is a bad thing - I want to tell you why that doesn't necessarily make me a bad person or a failure.

On glass, rubber and ceramic - and the two years it took to know the difference.

Fatherhood is not for the fainthearted nor is it for those who wish to avoid life's greatest joys

Without optimism, one tends to feel as though we're being sucked into a deep dark bottomless pit - pretty pointless really

Despite knowing our time on earth is limited, too many of us still act as though we're going to live forever

Being grateful for what you have and striving for more are not mutually exclusive concepts

IgnorANCE. IgnorING. Same root. Very different meaning.

This week, the distinction showed up in four very different moments - a mentoring conversation, a workshop, a real-time interruption and a fizzy drink.

On the gap between not knowing and choosing not to act - and the uncomfortable question that follows both.

Equality and equity may have some letters in common, but they're not the same thing

Service should never be for the recognition but it's appreciated when it is recognised

It's better to start with what you have instead of waiting for what you wish you had

This week, the manuscript updates for The FaithFULL Leader went to my editor.

One sentence. Eighteen months of everything behind it.

This isn't a post about finishing. It's about what it actually took - the doubt, the energy, the excusitis, the ignition points that kept the long game alive when momentum faded.

Many of us have become accepting of certain untruths and falsities to the extent we openly quip: "Well, everyone does it"

On a journey of change, conversations may be more valuable than outcomes

The past few days handed me the same lesson twice. In two very different settings. With two very different groups of people.

A conference on equity for Muslim communities. A workshop with an organisation fighting cancer. And somewhere in the background - a voice calling for the removal of the very communities that were busy building.

When you tread the path of truth, defence is not only unnecessary, it's counter-productive

On Friday evening, fifteen people arrived at a retreat not knowing they were leaders.

By Sunday morning, that had changed.

Not because we taught them something entirely new. But because we named what was already there - and then built deliberately on top of it.

Yesterday I found myself in two very different rooms. In one, I said exactly what I think without hesitation. In the other, I was invited to contribute in a space that once would have made me feel small.

Both moments came from the same place. This is a reflection on defaults.

Failure to see or acknowledge our character flaws doesn't mean we don’t have them

Experiencing joy is wonderful; bringing joy to others is extraordinary

All doors in life operate on proximity sensors: we have to move towards them before they'll open