Only enough Structure to allow Flow

Football, Edinburgh Aug 8

Cricket, London Aug 15

“Only enough Structure to allow Flow”

This is a personal mantra for me now and is the reason why the two photos above could happen.

I used to be known to plan life with great detail, packing the diary days, weeks, months and even years in advance. I also stuck rigidly to whatever was planned. Would you believe that until 2017 I had never cancelled or changed a trip plan ? Truly.

So, I chose to change that approach, and it created the two magic moments above.

To being, in October 2017 I committed to write daily on this site. As I then wrote about at the quiet period for me at the end of that calendar year, in “Stop the Busyness”:

“..being busy is not a virtue, and in fact can be radically destructive to all of us, and in particular to our capability to lead ourselves and so lead others.