Mind | Liz Watt

Navigating Information And Knowledge

The mobile phone, tablet, laptop, internet gives us immediate access to the collective information and knowledge of the planet in our back pockets. We can find any thing we choose in an instant. The key then, is to teach our children how to navigate this information...

What Did I Learn this Week?

The simple act of asking one’s self “what did I learn this week?” What could I do better? Differently? And taking a single, small step to make a change. Over time, adds up to steer us in the right direction. Rather than repeating the same things over and over again....

Again With Incompetence

At some point, in order to grow and expand, you have to step into a place of incompetence. Where the familiar is gone, and every thing is new and unknown. Where the learning curve must set in again. The point of incompetence, where’ you’re not the expert, and you...

Technology Is Making Us Dumb

Technology has the potential to help us do great things. Except, when it’s taking away the opportunity to ”think” for our selves. When you don’t have to think about any thing in a day, you stop using parts of your brain. And literally become dumber. When asked a...

Ask Three People

When you can’t figure something out… What to do next, how to do something, what the heck’s going on… Ask three people, instead of fumbling around on your own. Ideally, someone who’s done it before. Regardless, when you ask three people, you might get two good answers...

Independent Learning

Independent Learning requires initiative. It requires an individual to make a choice. To choose to better them selves and become expert in a particular area. It requires one to take steps, ask questions, follow advice and feedback. And not just wait to be told what to...

Happiness Is Not Based On Stuff

Happiness is not the purchase of the next big screen TV, or a bigger house, a new wardrobe, a shinier car. Happiness is how you think those things will make you feel, once you have them. They might, for a short time, until the feeling goes away. And then you need n...

Texting While Walking

When you walk across the road looking at your mobile phone and texting. And fall over. Yes, I’ll help you up. But I won’t have much sympathy. You’re lucky you didn’t walk in front of a car. The driver might have been texting and not seen you… XO Liz...

The Internet Is Not A Newspaper

There’s an interesting meme – an image of commuters of today flicking through a phone and commuters of 50 years ago with their heads buried in a newspaper. It seems the point being made is that human being have always isolated them selves in public scenarios....

Access To Every Thing

You don’t need to pay thousands of dollars for degrees and courses and gurus and experts. With this thing called the internet, the information is out there. You now have access to every piece of information or thing you could possibly need. You’re not restricted to...

When The Horse Won’t Drink

They say, you can lead a horse to water but you can’t make it drink. But what happens when you can’t even lead the horse to the water? You can try to entice it, with incentives and promises of rewards. You can push it and force it, with sticks and punishments and...

Life Is Collective

You cannot measure the success or failures of a person by one moment in time, or the outcome of one event, or one project or one job. Your life is the collective of every thing you create and do and are – the good, the bad and the ugly. Each moment of your life...

The Needs Of Resistance

A part of you wants to do or be or have something. Another part of you does not. When we push and force for what we want. And supress and repress and try to hide that which we don’t. We are simply adding more energy fuel to the resistance of our desires. Instead,...

You Can Only Do What You Can Do

You can only do what you can do. With the information that you know, and have at hand. Every thing else is still unknown to you, and you don’t know what you don’t know. So do what you can do now, And make a commitment to keep learning as much as you can. Asking...

No-One Cares About You As Much As You

No-one cares about you and your interests as much as you. No-one cares about your business, your relationship, your mental wellbeing… As much as you do, or you should. If you’re relying on other people to put you and your interests first. Make sure they do so, before...

Something Is Better Than Nothing

You skipped the gym when you said you’d go three times this week.
You ate that chocolate when you know you shouldn’t.
You didn’t…

Just Enjoy The Mentals

80’s bands are making a comeback. Boom Crash Opera. Mental As Anything. Rocking the stage like they did three decades ago. But this time the audience is viewing through a lens. Recoding the show on a video-phone. Watching it through a screen. Something they could have...