Sue Wong

We all have different capacities. At first glance, this feels obvious. We can see it in the physical world all around us. Some of us can run further, lift more, recover faster. Some of us are built this way, some have trained this way, and most of us are some blend of both. We understand… Read More

“With my personal manifesto as my guide, I have the meaning and purpose of my life against which I can calibrate each change as it arises.” I wrote these words in Blog #173. How they still ring true at the time of writing this blog #225! Life does change in ways that cannot be foreseen.… Read More

I am currently editing the manuscript of the first fiction book that I have attempted to write. As I do, I am reading other writers’ – particularly other writers of fiction – books with a keen eye to the way they are written. I am doing my best to avoid comparisons which diminish me –… Read More

I do love a good challenge. Partly because of what it asks of us… and partly because hidden within the word challenge is the word change. And I do believe that when we lean into the right kind of challenges, something within us shifts – often gently, sometimes profoundly. Of course, not all challenges are… Read More

There is a quiet habit that many of us carry. We compare. Not always consciously, not always fairly, but frequently. We compare how we look, how we lead, how we perform. We notice others who seem further ahead, more capable, more accomplished – and we measure ourselves against them. At other times, we look the… Read More

I recently celebrated my 57th birthday. Among the messages and well-wishes, I received a gift that I know I will carry with me for a long time. It came from my brother, Tony – though to me, he is ‘Nails’ (long story). And to him, I am ‘Pedro’ (not quite as long a story). As… Read More

There are some books that don’t just inform us – they quietly equip us. Shift by Ethan Kross is one of those books. Kross is not only a bestselling author, but a world-leading psychologist and neuroscientist, Director of the Emotion & Self-Control Laboratory at the University of Michigan. His work sits at the intersection of… Read More

There are many ways kindness finds its way into our lives. Sometimes it is a gesture. Sometimes it is time. And sometimes… it is words. Recently, Sue and I have been the recipients of a particular kind of kindness – one that continues to move us each time we encounter it. It comes in the… Read More

It’s a provocative question, isn’t it? Can sitting quietly – eyes closed, breath steady, mind wandering and returning – actually influence the age of our brain? Surprisingly, the science suggests it might. In a 2016 peer-reviewed study published in Frontiers in Psychology, neuroscientist Eileen Luders and colleagues compared long-term meditators with non-meditators across adulthood. They… Read More