Blooming Through Chaos

In this podcast, I explore the ideas in my book, Blooming Through Chaotic Times —a practical map for navigating complexity, turbulence, and change. Buy my Book Here, or connect with me to find out more: LinkedIn YouTube X You can also see my full engagements on my website

By a combination of SMART, PESTEL and SWOT techniques, we can gain a better understanding of our external and internal environment and develop a more effective plan to better prevent chaos from happening to us through the gradual implementation of these techniques in risk control processes. In the likelihood of a threat, one can be better prepared to manage risks by setting out plans to either avo...

Using these tools helps us to understand where we are in our Journey Back. But we also have an internal enemy, which is ourselves. So, another useful tool, accredited to a number of business gurus in the 1960s, called SWOT analysis, could assist self-reflection and awareness and enable us to better prepare against the tides of time. The acronym SWOT stands for Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities,...

Chaos usually happens when we let down our guard against risk. A simple way of determining what sort of personal or organizational risk to guard against is to analyse where the risk comes from. Francis Aguilar, a professor in strategic planning, used the acronym of PESTEL as a method where we can identify and prepare against external risks. The acronym PESTEL stands for Political, Economic, Socioc...

What are your goals this year ? It's already past the mid-year . Have you achieved these goals ? Don't just ruminate about your goals , you have to articulate them. You have to be SMART about achieving your goals. Rather than betting against the fragility of existence by a misconstrued assumption of an easy-go-get-lucky safety based on a false reliance of the System, it is safer and more reasonabl...

Everything is in a state of flux, including the status quo! We live in a complex and unpredictable world. In this podcast, I demonstrate how the best means of tackling life's fragility is to be proactively and purposefully prepared against its unpredictability.

I am an author, a community organiser and a life trainer. My mission is rooted in the belief that awareness, relationship and career progressions are essential to personal and professional success, and my goal is to bring passion into living through the perpetuation of this awareness, relationship and career by supporting individuals in building confidence, improving relationships and achieving ec...

This was culled from my Advent Spiritual Exercises in 2014