"Leave it with me"
Someone left a note on our car this week. And it disturbed me more than it should have.
Not because of the parking feedback. Because of the tool they chose to deliver it.
And then the same pattern kept showing up in very different forms.
#Theweekthatwas @ 23/08/2026
Despite knowing our time on earth is limited, too many of us still act as though we're going to live forever
Being the vessel, not the source
A friend my age - gone in her sleep. A young person unsure how to act without a personal incentive. A mentor's book arriving before mine. And a testimonial that humbled me completely.
Four moments. One thread running through all of them.
#Theweekthatwas @ 16/08/2026
Being grateful for what you have and striving for more are not mutually exclusive concepts
IgnorANCE or ignorING?
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.
#Theweekthatwas @ 9/08/2026
Equality and equity may have some letters in common, but they're not the same thing
The Motivation Addiction
Eight shirts. An iron. No motivational podcast.
And a thought that's been sitting with me ever since about why so many of us are addicted to borrowed energy - and what we're actually missing underneath it.
On the difference between motivation and inspiration - and why one runs out.
#Theweekthatwas @ 2/08/2026
Service should never be for the recognition but it's appreciated when it is recognised
Tie your camel
At a recent presentation on faith-integrated leadership, someone asked a question I appreciated more than a polite nod:
"If I'm standing in front of a dying patient - how does relying on a god actually help?"
This blog explores my response - on the gap between effort and outcome - and the ancient Prophetic tradition that captures an entire leadership philosophy in three words.
#Theweekthatwas @ 26/07/2026
Commitment to a cause can inspire some extraordinary behaviours
Impostor schmmoster
My daughter passed her final nursing exam this week. Got a placement. A real, paid, adult job. Earned.
Her response to that news? Two words: "Impostor syndrome."
My response? "Impostor schmmoster."
This week's blog is about why I pushed back on that label and what years of paying the fitting-in tax actually produces in people who've earned every right to be in the room they're standing in.
#Theweekthatwas @ 19/07/2026
It's better to start with what you have instead of waiting for what you wish you had
The long game isn't a smooth game
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.
#Theweekthatwas @ 12/07/2026
Sometimes we need to enter seemingly unsafe spaces to create comfort for someone else to follow
Grief doesn't check your calendar
This week I attended a Matariki session where one line stopped me:
"One constellation, one sky. Many stories."
I didn't expect those words to land the way they did. But then again, I didn't expect what happened two weeks ago either - when I stood in front of 60 people, mid-introduction and my father's name came out of my mouth differently than it ever had before.
#Theweekthatwas @ 05/07/2026
Many of us have become accepting of certain untruths and falsities to the extent we openly quip: "Well, everyone does it"
Strategy isn't a document. It's a chain.
This afternoon, I went for a run. Completely unremarkable on the surface. Midday. Lunchtime. One foot in front of the other.
But this blog tells what was actually happening - and why it has everything to do with strategy.
#Theweekthatwas @ 28/06/2026
On a journey of change, conversations may be more valuable than outcomes
While one room was building, another was burning
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.
#Theweekthatwas @ 21/06/2026
When you tread the path of truth, defence is not only unnecessary, it's counter-productive