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Why AFL is the best

By David Werdiger | 1 min read

Super Bowl week always reminds me why AFL is the best game in the world. I’ve looked at every major sport through fou...

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Long Life vs Long Days

By David Werdiger | 1 min read

We don’t wish for long lives. We wish for long days. Days used with intention.Days lived consciously. Days that aren’...

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Between The Notes

By David Werdiger | 1 min read

We hear music in the notes, but we feel it in the space between them.  Life works the same way. If music needs the sp...

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7-Day Power of Pause Challenge

By David Werdiger | 1 min read

How often do you find yourself doom-scrolling? Wasting your time on a screen? If that sounds familiar, it’s time to t...

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Time Becomes A Product

By David Werdiger | 1 min read

Immortality is being sold everywhere. But the most valuable time you’ll ever have isn’t later. It’s now. And it’s the...

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How To Watch NFL (as an Aussie)

By David Werdiger | 1 min read

The NFL is built for TV, but my life isn’t. The football games start at 5am on Mondays most of the time here in Austr...

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Day of Rest As A Modern Necessity

By David Werdiger | 1 min read

TGIF – Thank God It’s Friday – is a popular slogan We get to the end of the week and can’t wait for the w...

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Living Intentionally

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Pubs Banning Phones

By David Werdiger | 1 min read

Great news: pubs & bars are banning phones and people love it From WAPO   Pubs & bars are important soci...

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Productivity culture runs like a hamster wheel. It just keeps running, at the same pace, going nowhere.

Do you manage your time like a hamster wheel or do you put a training program in place and find time to rest?

There's a scene in "Mad Men" where Don Draper is asked what he thought about Hawaii, and instead of talking about beaches, he talks about becoming someone else. Not a version of himself with better tan lines and a Mai Tai. A different person. One who, for a few days, didn't miss

I recently took one of the best holidays of my life, and I never left the resort.

Turns out the destination is beside the point. What you're actually chasing is a change of pace, and if your holiday runs on the same schedule as your working week, you've just moved the treadmill

We have strategies for our careers, our finance, our help.

Pleased to announce a program to help answer an important question: “what’s your strategy for your time?”

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