A formula to ensure you have lots of surprises in 2026: Pay attention, so you notice the surprise. Spend time in total wonder so the surprise lasts longer than just a few seconds. Feel and express gratitude.

Experience the power of a personal pause. Ask yourself these question: • What am I experiencing right now? • What’s important to me right now?

Three short, sweet, simple three-word mantras to say when life gets difficult. Who am I? Let it be. All is well.

Fear is a human habit. Its benefits are overrated. We’ve come to believe we need it to function, but we don’t. Just being fully aware is a better option.

Good intentions and paying attention are inextricably bound up in one another. You can’t have one without the other. An intention can’t be good unless it involves attention.

Wisdom arises in the moment, in the space without thought, considering and embracing all things.

Live without your story for a day. Forget you have a name. Feel lighter, more energized, more spacious, and more peaceful, than you do when you cling to the past or stare fearfully into a possible yet imaginary future.

Evolution involves change and change is an inevitable part of life. When I make conscious choices, I’m contributing to the evolution of human consciousness.

Suffering is a mental habit which eases or ceases when we accept – bear, hold up, carry, allow – what life has presented us with and begin to work with the aspects of the situation that are within our control.

There are all sorts of garden soils and all sorts of family soils. Families are all imperfect in their own way. Ask yourself, What sort of soil are you being right now?

Being present is a calm space paradoxically filled with energy. It’s suffused with a normally elusive sense of abiding peace and joy.

Flying by the seat of my pants means to instinctively respond to what is happening, to figure out what to do as things unfold.

Stoics say that what's in the way is the way, There's no such thing as an obstacle.

Find the gold – something precious, something illuminating, something with an eternal glow about it – in every moment, every situation.

Breathing deeply brings awareness to your body, to this moment. Doing this calms your mind. Try it!

The ordinary becomes extraordinary when you pay attention. There are no ordinary flowers, a boring cloud, or an uninteresting right hand.

The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mystical. (Einstein). Miracles are everywhere in everyday life.

Patience is presence. You can't run out of patience. Impatience is a form of madness.

A garden seat is a necessity. Have at least one in your garden. Choose simple and cheap ones.

Being out of our comfort zone helps us grow in qualities like thankfulness, compassion, forgiveness, resourcefulness and patience.