Selectively Juggling

Describe a man who has positively impacted your life. RIP Dad, I still miss you every day. I’m grateful for your depth of character, compassion, emotional intelligence, integrity, intelligence, wicked sense of humour, generosity, irreverence, child-like wonder and awe. I’m grateful to have witnessed your strong sense of purpose, social justice and equality. You may…

Tell us one thing you hope people say about you. It would be a toss-up between hoping people say that I am genuinely authentic, or that I am creatively intelligent. Yet, having just written that I believe I ultimately want people to say that I’m emotionally intelligent, embodying high levels of intuitive compassion and empathy…

What are your favorite physical activities or exercises? Swimming, dancing and bushwalking. I spend as much time swimming, as possible. I’m literally like a fish.

Are you more of a night or morning person? I absolutely love the quiet stillness found late at night, when the household is fast asleep. I derive incredible joy, inspiration and energy from the quiet early morning, as outside I am greeted with a cacophony of birdsong and of day’s awakening. Perhaps I prefer early…

What are your feelings about eating meat? I haven’t eaten meat in over 20 years, and I know that I will never eat it again. All be it for some incredible reasoning , ie the state of the world depended on me eating meat, other than that it’s a definite No! However, I respect the…

What are your two favourite things to wear? In all seriousness my two favourite things to wear comfortable, proper fitting shoes and comfortably fitted, natural fabrics. However, I wish I could wear a cloak of invisibility, as well as find a beautifully sexy bra that feels like you’re actually braless. I would also love to…

What’s the hardest decision you’ve ever had to make? Why? In hindsight my life has been punctuated with tough decisions, yet they have all been interspersed with relatively easy choices. So effectively, I can’t give a qualifiable response. Yes, I’ve been challenged, had to face many harrowing situations, yet at the end of the day…

If you didn’t need sleep, what would you do with all the extra time? I’d get around to all the things I need to finish. Perhaps I’d attempt to study astrophysics and spend countless hours deep space gazing. Perhaps I’d get the book that I’m writing finished faster. Perhaps I’d get a Potter’s wheel and…

Name your top three pet peeves. Micro managers – I detest, vehemently abhor all forms of micro management, as it robs me of autonomy, choice, creativity and passion. It undermines self agency, experience and knowledge. In a world of big blue sky thinking and endless possibilities, micro management is like blinkered short-sightedness that robs us…