“To attain knowledge, add things every day. To attain wisdom, remove things every day.” Lao Tzu
You know you’d like to reduce your spending, review your cost of living and make do with less, but however much you think about it, nothing seems to spur you into action. What’s stopping you?
Being “frugal” – sparing, economical, careful [...]

On the “Coaching” and “About me” pages of this website, I state that I coach from a psychospiritual perspective.
Every so often a prospective coaching client or fellow coach asks me to explain further. Some coaches, particularly business coaches, it would seem, are not familiar with this approach and many clients are unaware of the differences [...]

“By taking care of the present, we can even transform the past.” Thich Nhat Hahn
What is the past? What is history? I would suggest that the past is only what we choose to remember, whether that’s what someone’s recorded in a history text or whether it’s our personal recollection of an event. The memory [...]

“There is more to life than increasing its speed” Gandhi
Why have we bought in to convenience?
In theory, convenience is supposed to offer us less effort, less responsibility, less time and personal energy used and feelings of being in control. Convenience, or rather the efficiency and ease that we believe it gives us, has become part [...]

What is sustainable change?
I believe it’s when we are able to cultivate a new habit, a novel way of being or doing, and maintain that long term. We might find this very easy to do for some habits, for example finding an alternative route to work and sticking to it, or deciding to wake up [...]