Mind Archives - Wimble

The Paradox of Softness

Oct

28

2025

In a world that prizes hardness and rigid strength, the concept of softness is often mistaken for weakness. This view, however, fundamentally misunderstands the nature of true power. The paradox of softness reveals that yielding, flexibility, and a gentle demeanor are not liabilities, but profound and enduring forms of resilience. This idea is best embodied ...

FAFO and the Art of Mindful Experimentation

Oct

21

2025

There’s a saying that’s become popular online: FAFO – F About and Find Out. It’s usually meant as a warning, but there’s actually a deeper wisdom in it. Most of us, in life or work, would rather do than overthink. We want to try something, take action, see what happens. And that’s a good thing ...

Discovering Depth in Your Tai Chi

Oct

7

2025

Tai Chi is often thought of as a sequence of movements to memorise, but those who stay with the art discover something far richer. Like re-reading a favourite book, the familiar shapes reveal new details each time. A shift in weight suddenly makes more sense, a breath falls into place, and you catch a glimpse ...

The Power of Yielding

Sep

23

2025

Most people think yielding means giving up. In Tai Chi and in life, it’s the opposite. Yielding is a conscious choice to redirect force instead of clashing with it. When you yield, you create space to move, adapt, and recover while the other person (or problem) often stumbles over its own momentum. In our goals, ...

Do you hate the hustle?

Mar

18

2023

Growing a business is hard enough when you love what you do. However, if you feel like you’re having to hustle and you’re forcing yourself to do things that you don’t want to do, that don’t align with who you are, that are just not enjoyable for you, and you’re told that you have to do ...

Gamification, and how dull or scary activities and tasks can become more interesting and rewarding

Jan

22

2023

It’s time to reward progression and consistency as well as results Have you ever struggled to get the motivation to do things that are just not fun or do not give you any obvious reward. I’m talking about things like cleaning a sink (you could argue that you have a nice shiny sink but big ...

Lights! Cameras! Action! How to post interesting videos on TikTok, YouTube, Facebook etc.

Nov

16

2022

A while ago, I participated in Catherine Watkin‘s Facebook Live Challenge where we had to go live on video on Facebook. Since then, I’ve been publishing 1-2 videos a week (although not Facebook Lives as I couldn’t iron out technical issues to make broadcasting the Lives easy and smooth). I then decided to explore TikTok ...

Mindset Strategy Workshop

Oct

11

2022

Thank you for signing up for the mindset strategy workshop. Simply follow the videos and write down your answers to the various questions to gain clarity and confidence to level up your business. You’ll need a pen and notebook. I’d also recommend making sure you’re unlikely to be disturbed so switch off your phone and ...

How to flow while playing a musical instrument

Aug

11

2021

In this article, you will learn how to apply the HAPPY Way to playing a simple musical instrument. In particular, I’m focusing on learning to play a simple instrument called the lyre but the principles can apply to any instrument. Playing an instrument can be a joyful experience especially when you’ve been practising for decades ...

The secret to inner calm and true happiness…

May

9

2021

… learn to live the HAPPY Way I realised that over the years there have been some underlying principles that have kept me moving forwards in a genuinely positive manner. By “genuine” I mean not just the “fake it until you make it”, “grin and bear it” kind of false happy but the sort of ...