Did you know that you can create flow states with sensory anchoring? Sensory anchoring means using a specific smell, texture, or sound to train your brain into different modes. For example, I create sensory anchors for getting into "focus mode" when I need to work by keeping a cedar block on my desk. When I'm ready to work, I smell the cedar block, turn on some medieval lo-fi music, set a pomodoro timer, and get to it. Now my brain associates medieval lo-fi and the smell of cedar with "It's time to lock in and get work done!" Have you tried sensory anchoring before?

When life's got you down, what are your go-to ways of getting through it?

🍎 I’ve long admired the work of Dr. Maria Montessori, especially her idea of The Prepared Environmen, a space intentionally designed to support independence, clarity, and self‑direction. In her classrooms, everything has a place, everything is accessible, and everything invites purposeful engagement. Lately, I’ve been thinking about how deeply this applies to us as adults, especially those of us building businesses. We don’t outgrow the need for environments that support our best thinking. 💥 We just get better at tolerating the ones that don’t. Our lives Our calendars Our digital spaces Our habits They’re all environments we either prepare with intention or allow to be shaped by urgency, distraction, and other people’s priorities. And just like a child can’t thrive in a chaotic classroom, we can’t do our most meaningful work in a life that constantly pulls us off center. A prepared environment isn’t about perfection. It’s about design. It’s about reducing friction so your energy can go toward the work that matters. It’s about creating conditions that make clarity easier to access and follow‑through more natural. This is restorative practice for adults: shaping the space around you so it supports who you’re becoming, not just who you’ve been. For business owners, this isn’t a nice‑to‑have. 💡It’s strategy. A prepared environment becomes a quiet partner in your success, holding you steady, helping you focus, and giving you the internal spaciousness to lead with intention rather than urgency. So I’m curious: What would shift for you if your environment, inner and outer, was designed to support the work you actually want to do? When will you take action?

I'm curious how many others wake in the morning with concepts, or considerations which set up your ideas, or can dictate your day ? For example, when I woke this morning, my wife asked me if I slept well, to which I replied, "Yeah, pretty well, although I've woken up thinking about cutlery and neurodivergence" As usual, she kissed me good morning, smiled and replied, "Of course you have", but it was true. Part of the reason why I had been considering this, is that I'm often thinking about new ways to explain neurodivergence and neuroinclusivity to clients and connections. As I was lying there, I was feeling that the spoon was getting a rough deal. We often refer to laying the table as "putting the knives and forks out, but rarely does the spoon get a mention. Unlike the knife, which really only has one purpose, and whilst the fork can potentially have two to three reasons for existence, even though it does not have the uniform straightness of the other tools, the spoon can do both of their jobs, and often a lot more, therefore making it more efficient than the others. In addition to this, it's a lot more fun as it looks a little quirkier rolling around the table, you can sort of see your reflection in it like a cheap mini hall of mirrors, and unlike the other two, the best bit is that it can make other people smile when it hangs off your nose. Anyway, now you know what my wife has to deal with when things like this just pop into my head. I was just wondering if this was a common thing or just me?

Funny… I moved into my new home yesterday. This morning, as I was unpacking my office to get ready for the work day, I stumbled upon an old box of books from many years ago. I used to be a very avid reader, and with this new home I figured what the hell… I want to pick up my reading habit and shift into the identity of a reader again. So I open one of my many boxes of books to see what I had inside. The very first book? The only skill that matters by Jonathan Levi. A book about learning to become a “super learner”. Speed reading. Memory enhancements. Learning how to learn. Funny how the universe works like that sometimes. I don’t think there’s a single book in my entire collection that makes more sense for me to read first than this one.