Posts in Personal Reinvention

Solveig Løvseth's remarkable IRONMAN Kona finish reveals how resilience can mean changing course, recognising our limits and redefining victory.

Build career resilience with T-shaped skills: keep your deep expertise, broaden your capabilities, and learn how to explore and exploit what aligns.

Authenticity and consistency are closely linked. Learn how natural alignment can make long-term consistency easier and more sustainable.

Internal vs external self-awareness reveals the gap between your intentions and your impact - and what other people can see that you can’t.

After almost ten years of 05h30 CrossFit, I’ve deliberately stepped away. The training hadn’t stopped mattering; the wider system had changed. A reflection on life[…]

We are often told to find our purpose before changing direction. But the work that suits us cannot always be discovered through introspection. It is[…]

I am back at my desk in Cape Town. The heater is on, and a fat lump of a cat is purring across my lap[…]

Personal resilience is the maths of load versus capacity. Use Valorie Burton’s model to understand stressors, resources and why depletion is data.

A resilience early warning system helps you spot depletion before failure. Learn how D.O.S.E. reveals what is happening inside human capacity.

A reflection on resilience and trauma, and why effort isn’t enough. Exploring misalignment, hidden strain, and how meaning restores capacity.