Why I founded Waves of Resilience
How can we navigate our unravelling world? That's the question I've been wrestling with since I graduated university in 2016.
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Tom Marshall
Nov 16, 20233 min read
Why letting go of materialism is letting of yourself
🤔 Are you clinging onto possessions you never use? Why? Likely, it's because you've attached part of yourself to this physical item.
Tom Marshall
Oct 20, 20234 min read
Beyond the Pages: Why Experiencing an Alternative World is Key for Transformation.
Experience is the blindspot of understanding. In our education systems, we sit in bland classrooms, detached from the phenomena we're...
Tom Marshall
Sep 18, 20234 min read
How a ten-day meditation retreat gave me space for radical presence
10 hours of meditation per day for ten days. Eat, sleep, meditate, repeat. Sounds like a nightmare? It was challenging, but my first ...
Tom Marshall
Aug 22, 20236 min read
My Favourite Resources for Navigating an Unravelling World
People often ask me: "Tom, I'd like to learn about 'X'. What resource would you recommend?" Here's a collection of books, blogs,...
Tom Marshall
Aug 14, 20233 min read
Critiquing the old story of humanity & creating an alternative
The Old Story is all around us. It's deeply ingrained in our assumptions about the world and our place in it. That makes it incredibly...
Tom Marshall
May 11, 20212 min read
10 Principles for Changemakers
Following up from my 12 Principles for an Extraordinary Life, I've written these 10 principles to guide changemakers on their journey's.
Tom Marshall
Apr 18, 20213 min read
My Activist Story
I never thought I’d be a climate activist. It sounded too radical. I was eating the fruits from our economic system - capitalising on my...
Tom Marshall
Mar 31, 20212 min read
Being yourself in a world that wants you to be somebody else
I've conquered one of my biggest fears: not belonging. I literally broke through it, with those words written on a wooden plank that I split
Tom Marshall
Mar 18, 20212 min read
Overcoming what society made you think
We're all living within systems of belief, mostly unknowingly. We cannot develop into self-directed beings without becoming aware of them.
Tom Marshall
Mar 4, 20212 min read
How social media re-wires your brain - and what to do about it
I'd open social media, share my ideas, respond to comments - then I'd close it. I couldn't possibly be as intoxicated as everyone else...
Tom Marshall
Feb 16, 20215 min read
12 life lessons I learned from creating my first podcast
12 principles, 12 episodes and now, 12 life lessons; that we can all learn from.
Tom Marshall
Jan 6, 20214 min read
How to find meaning in your work? My story.
Is it possible to love your work? Here's the story I share in Episode 9 of my Principled? Podcast: ”I'm gonna make money and conquer the...
Tom Marshall
Dec 16, 20203 min read
The one thing you must do BEFORE setting your 2021 goals
“I want to work-out more”, “I want to get promoted” , “I want to learn French”. Perhaps you’ve set goals like this for 2021. That’s...
Tom Marshall
Dec 14, 20204 min read
Nurturing your relationships
How can you develop and maintain deep relationships? Here's the story I share in Episode 8 of my Principled? Podcast: When I was a...
Tom Marshall
Oct 21, 20202 min read
The Joy of Physical Work
Using your body and mind together engages all of your being. Mind-body cognition is one of the most underestimated physiological...
Tom Marshall
Jul 29, 20204 min read
Is this business trend destroying your integrity?
You’ve probably heard slogans like these before: make an impact that matters. Build a better working world. Don’t be evil. This latest...
Tom Marshall
Jul 15, 20203 min read
Are your work relationships tying you to your job?
In our hunter-gatherer past, all the work we did was for our tribe. We hunted deer and gathered berries to provide for people we cared...
Tom Marshall
Jul 1, 20202 min read
Here's what I find meaningful
I’m celebrating six months of being fully dedicated to my purpose. This is what I'm learning about living a meaningful working life.
Tom Marshall
Jun 17, 20204 min read
Saying “no” to mediocrity
This is why we settle for mediocre careers and what you can do to escape the trap.
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