Pillar 1 of 6: Body
Strength, sleep, food, movement: the plain daily work that decides how much you have to give. Learn from people a few steps ahead of you, and reach back for the ones behind.
Become strong enough to hold others up.
A community of people helping each other grow in body, mind, soul, business, family and community.
You’re not the only one.
Plenty of people are quietly reading, training, reflecting and building on their own, with no one nearby doing the same. This is where you find each other. Here’s what we hold to.
Stay open.
Hear people out, and question your own views as readily as anyone else’s.
Grow in every direction.
Keep building on what you’re good at, and make a start on what you’ve been putting off.
Focus on what you can change.
Your habits, your work, your home, your street. That’s where effort adds up.
Lift the people around you.
Share what you’ve learned. The stronger you get, the more you can carry for others.
Trust each other as adults.
Assume good intentions, speak plainly and let people make their own choices.
Your content stays yours.
What you write and share here belongs to you. Always.
Six places to grow.
Most of us are strong in one or two. The rest is where it gets interesting.
Pillar 2 of 6: Mind
Reading, practising, learning something hard for the joy of it. Bring the book you can’t stop thinking about, the skill you’re halfway through, the question you keep turning over.
Pillar 3 of 6: Soul
Stillness, meaning, faith, gratitude. However you tend to the inside of your life, you’ll find people who take it seriously, and who don’t need you to see it their way.
Pillar 4 of 6: Business
Opening a sandwich shop on the corner takes as much nerve as building a tech giant, and both are honoured here. Bring your plans, your numbers and your doubts. Get honest help from people who are building too.
Pillar 5 of 6: Family
Partners, kids, parents, the grandparents who shaped you. The people closest to us deserve more than what’s left at the end of the day. Share what’s working at home, and ask about what isn’t.
Pillar 6 of 6: Community
You don’t need to change the world. Start with your street: shovel a neighbour’s walk, coach the kids’ team, sit with someone having a hard day. Impact you can see, close to home.
Every topic opens into more.
Everything here lives in topics, and every topic can hold topics of its own. The community builds them together, so there’s always somewhere deeper to go, and always something you know that someone else needs.
- An example topicRunning
- ResourcesThe guides, books and tools people found most useful, gathered in one place.
- DiscussionsThreaded conversations where you can ask, answer and compare notes.
- FeedUpdates, progress and small wins from people working on the same thing.
- SubtopicsNarrower topics inside this one, each with the same four parts.
- Your first 5K
- Running in winter
- Layering for the cold
- Footing on ice
- Staying motivated when it’s dark by five
- Strength for runners
- Trail running
…and further, as deep as the community takes it.
Put your energy where it grows.
There are plenty of places to argue about the world. This is a place to work on it, starting close to home. We leave politics out so our energy goes to what we can actually change: our health, our skills, our families and the places we live.
