THE COGNOMIE COMMUNITY BLOG

You've heard people say that consultants charge you a bunch of money to ask you what you think, and then tell you what you already know. But I don’t think that’s actually fair (and not just because I do my share of consultancy work, either). You see, what I have to wonder is this: did you actually k...

In these strange days of a global pandemic, with its lockdowns, distancing, isolation, panic-buying and more, never more has it been so important to hold onto one simple, yet powerful, message: your present circumstances are temporary; and they do not have to define your future reality, unless you a...

A while back, I worked through a programme designed by one of my favourite authors/thinkers, Donald Miller. In one of the modules, I was reminded of something another of my favourite authors/thinkers, Viktor Frankl, said: when we find a redemptive perspective on our suffering, it ceases to be suffer...

Optimism is something you hear about a lot. It's a word that gets thrown around in all sorts of contexts. Governments always seem to have copious levels of optimism when it comes to 'reaching agreement' with whoever it is they are currently disagreeing; sports teams often seem to find 'reason for op...

I know how it feels to long for what is yet to be: to be fixated on the possibilities and expectations of the future; always striving, always discontent, always restless, never satisfied. I know what it is to buy into the lie that, further down the road the grass is greener than in your own back yar...

Let me ask you a question: does it sometimes feel like finding happiness is about as easy as herding cats? You seem to find it and take hold of it, but then it slips right through your fingers, leaving you back in the doldrums and in search of that 'thing' to lift your spirits.

Well, if that sounds...

I’d felt like this before. Nearly twenty years ago, in fact, right before I had a complete and catastrophic meltdown. Not the most treasured period of my life, but a period that I’d like to think I’d learned from. And, as events of recent weeks showed (but only by the skin of my teeth), it turns out...

Why do you do what you do? Do you ever take the time to stand back and wonder, just for a moment, what it is that drives your decisions; what it is that pushes you further along the path you are travelling; that makes you (nevermind the chicken) cross the road?

For me (and I'd hazard a guess it may...