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Inner Peace Foundations
You want to feel calm and you do not. Start here. What peace actually is, why it is not the same as everything going well, and how to find some on a bad week.
SITS 178 · How to Meditate · 20 September 2026 · 17:11We're All Terrible Meditators: The Art of Doing Nothing on PurposeAre you bad at meditating? So is everyone. The mind wanders because that is its job. Meditation is not quieting it, it is noticing you have gone and coming back.Listen to this episode 
SITS 160 · Buddhist & Spiritual Wisdom · 15 March 2026 · 23:13"Is This All There Is?" Answering the Quiet Question in Your HeartIs this all there is? If that question keeps visiting you, it is not a fault. It might be the most important one you have asked.Listen to this episode 
SITS 156 · 3 January 2026 · 14:30Forget Resolutions: Why One Word Is All You Need This YearWhat would your one word for the year be? Forget resolutions. One word does more work than a list you will have abandoned by February.Listen to this episode 
SITS 154 · 30 October 2025 · 22:51The Truth About Inner Peace: 5 Myths DebunkedWhat does inner peace actually mean? It is what is left when you are not suffering. It is already there, and mostly we just forget it is.Listen to this episode 
SITS 140 · Hard Times & Resilience · 15 February 2025 · 12:37Finding Peace and Stillness in the Current StormsHow do you stay steady when the news will not stop? Six weeks into the year and it is already relentless.Listen to this episode 
SITS 130 · Anxiety, Overwhelm & Stress · 22 October 2024 · 20:49Transforming Your Thoughts: The Truth About Positive and Negative ThinkingIs there really such a thing as a negative thought? By the end of this I do not think you will say yes.Listen to this episode 
SITS 126 · 3 August 2024 · 18:19Beyond Happiness: The Importance of Nourishment for a Meaningful LifeWhat is the difference between something that makes you happy and something that nourishes you? Fireworks are wonderful. They do not feed you for the week.Listen to this episode 
SITS 120 · 13 April 2024 · 20:23Feeling Lost and Unfulfilled? Discover the Secret to Purposeful LivingWhat if your purpose is much smaller than you think? Maybe today it is to give somebody a hug you have not hugged for a while. That counts, and it is available now.Listen to this episode 
SITS 106 · 30 November 2023 · 21:35Voices of the Soul: Understanding and Embracing Internal DialoguesHow many voices are arguing in your head right now? I call mine the ten thousand, and I am tired. They do not go quiet just because you sat down to meditate.Listen to this episode 
SITS 102 · 16 September 2023 · 19:24How the Thought Funnel Shapes Your RealityWhy does a small thought turn into a whole afternoon? Because it goes up a funnel, and the funnel widens as it climbs.Listen to this episode 
SITS 101 · 7 September 2023 · 26:24Embracing Your Humanity: Discovering Peace and Suffer LessWhat does it actually mean to be human? Nobody handed you a form to tick before you arrived. You are dealing with feelings that took millions of years to build.Listen to this episode 
SITS 99 · 25 August 2023 · 21:07Unlock the Secret Army Inside You: How to Boost Health and Find Inner PeaceWhat if your body has a workforce, and you keep giving it extra jobs? The soldiers have to clean the lungs, repair the cuts and process bad food. Something gets dropped.Listen to this episode 
SITS 98 · 17 August 2023 · 12:42How to Embrace the Full Stick of LifeCan you have the good bits without the bad ones? No. And a small pond muddies far quicker than a big one, which turns out to be most of the problem.Listen to this episode 
SITS 95 · 27 July 2023 · 22:29Making Friends with the Present: A Life-Changing ShiftDo you actually know that the worst thing that happened to you was bad? You never know what worse luck your bad luck saved you from.Listen to this episode 
SITS 92 · 16 June 2023 · 19:59How to Harness Your 3 Core Values to Navigate Life’s Many RolesHow many roles are you playing at once? Employee, colleague, manager, mentor, parent. I was a councillor and a mayor, and I am loving not being one of those anymore.Listen to this episode 
SITS 87 · 4 May 2023 · 21:54Why Tiny Experiences Can Change Your Life Forever - Find Out How!Which moments turn out to be the big ones? Enjoy the little things, said Robert Brault, for one day you may look back and realise they were the big things.Listen to this episode 
SITS 84 · 5 March 2023 · 25:51Befriending Your Mind: The Secret to Inner PeaceWhy does your mind do things you did not ask it to? Because three separate minds get the information before you do.Listen to this episode 
SITS 83 · 24 February 2023 · 26:55The Ultimate Guide to Living: 10 Lessons We All Can Learn from Those Who've Lived ItIf you had ten lessons left to hand on, what would they be? Here are mine, and death is what made me write them.Listen to this episode 
SITS 80 · 28 January 2023 · 24:52Deep Gratitude – If the Kettle Had Feelings!What would your kettle say about you if it had feelings? That is not a joke. That is where deep gratitude starts.Listen to this episode 
SITS 78 · 6 January 2023 · 21:333 Things I Wish I Knew Years AgoWhat three things do I wish I had known years ago? The first one costs you nothing and almost everybody gets it wrong.Listen to this episode 
SITS 73 · 16 September 2022 · 23:00Here's the Gap – and why it matters!Ever said something you regretted about three seconds later? There is a gap between what happens and how you answer it, and it is bigger than it feels.Listen to this episode 
SITS 71 · 23 April 2022 · 18:25What Is in Your Control and Why It Is Important to KnowWhat is actually in your control? Far less than you think, and that turns out to be the good news. I spent my rock bottom trying to run the whole world.Listen to this episode 
SITS 68 · 9 January 2022 · 22:53Thinking Positive Will Not Make You Happy – This Will!Can you actually control your thoughts? No, and being told to think positive is exactly why so many people feel they are failing at it.Listen to this episode 
SITS 67 · Working with Emotions · 2 January 2022 · 17:33This Is Where You Will FIND Your PASSIONWhy do we avoid the exact thing we most want to do? Because wanting it means we could fail at it, and I have been doing that for years.Listen to this episode 
SITS 64 · 30 August 2021 · 18:332 Words You Should Stop Using AND What to Use InsteadWhich two words are quietly framing your whole life wrong? Good and bad. I swapped them for healthy and unhealthy, and it took the harshness off everything, anger included.Listen to this episode 
SITS 63 · 7 August 2021 · 17:16Should I settle for what I have? Can I dream and want more?If I am grateful for what I have, am I still allowed to want more? Yes, and pretending otherwise is its own trap.Listen to this episode 
SITS 61 · 6 June 2021 · 16:05I Know What You Are Searching For... Am I Right?What are you actually searching for? I joined the clubs, the forums and the groups, and none of it delivered.Listen to this episode 
SITS 55 · 31 March 2021 · 9:58Forget Gratitude – Do a Stock-Take InsteadHas gratitude turned into another thing on your to-do list? Try a stock take instead. Walk round the house and actually look at what is in it.Listen to this episode 
SITS 50 · 15 January 2021 · 16:54My 25% Rule to Help You Grow ConsciouslyWhat happens when you sit and properly listen to people you disagree with? I ran out of excuses, went to the council meetings, and found it genuinely fascinating.Listen to this episode 
SITS 44 · 25 October 2020 · 14:17Your Knowledge Is Worthless If You…Is your knowledge worth anything if you never use it? I have a confession, and it involves a shelf of unread books.Listen to this episode 
SITS 42 · 13 October 2020 · 20:50How to Think Positive Even with a Negative BiasCan you think positive when your brain is built with a negative bias? Just think positive is the worst advice I ever gave, and I gave it for twenty years.Listen to this episode 
SITS 39 · 28 September 2020 · 17:45What Is My Best Advice?If I could give you one piece of advice, what would it be? You cannot change this moment, so what are you going to do with it?Listen to this episode 
SITS 30 · 17 June 2020 · 14:47How to SOLVE 99% of YOUR PROBLEMSDo you want to solve 99% of your problems? Then stop numbing them and go and find what is causing them.Listen to this episode 
SITS 14 · 14 January 2020 · 12:39Finding Your CORE VALUES and Why It Is so ImportantWhat are your core values, and do you actually bring them into every room you walk into?Listen to this episode 
SITS 8 · 24 September 2019 · 20:48How to Control Your Thoughts and Enjoy Inner PeaceCan you control your thoughts? Try this. What will your next thought be? You cannot know. So the control was never there to lose in the first place.Listen to this episode 
SITS 3 · 20 June 2019 · 20:12Managing Expectations vs Your Inner PeaceAre your expectations quietly costing you your peace? Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.Listen to this episode 
SITS 2 · 13 June 2019 · 25:10Building the Foundations of StillnessWhy does your calm hold in a traffic jam and vanish the moment your own family walk in? Because calm without foundations is just good weather.Listen to this episode 
SITS 1 · 13 June 2019 · 23:22Stillness in the Storms of LifeWhat does it mean to be still while everything around you is a storm? Picture a bar brawl, and one man at the end of it, quietly drinking.Listen to this episode Somewhere else
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