Common Purpose Blog

Our world is often defined by winners and losers. Sports, politics, prize drawings, lottery, competitions, awards ceremonies, love, and life – all have winners and losers. Winning or losing is neither right nor wrong. It just is. Sometimes winning is due to luck; other times it is a function of skill; talent often plays a [...]

Last weekend I went on a surfing holiday with a group of friends.  We woke early Saturday morning and began preparing for the day. When I get up I love a good cup of coffee (filter coffee). One problem the house we were staying in only had Nescafe. Now I drink Nescafe at work because [...]

Working with young people you quickly learn that many youths who don’t conform, lash out and generally misbehave, are desperately seeking attention. They don’t necessarily care what the attention is, just as long as they are noticed. Having dealt with numerous youngsters when running summer camps,  I quickly found that 90% of my time and [...]

I was 22, broke, just finished my degree, and had no idea what my next move in life would be when my aunt pulled me aside and predicted that my 20s would be extremely hard and that I was going to learn lessons I was not prepared for, and I was going to make compromises [...]

Leadership is changing rapidly.  I heard someone recently comment that democracy would not outlive climate change.  They were chilling words. A democracy is supposed to be run by the people with their interests in mind. If democracy is under threat because of what people are doing, why can it not adapt to save it and [...]