Your Experience Has a Use-By Date with Mark Molony

A few days after my first conversation with mindfulness teacher Mark Molony, he contacted me with a simple message: “I’ve had some more thoughts.” That message captures something important about the purpose of On Experience. The most meaningful conversations do not end when the recording stops. They continue working on us. New ideas keep coming, distinctions get […]
Experience is Just a Memory with Mark Molony

We often talk about learning from experience. But what if experience isn’t what we think it is? In this excerpt from my On Experience conversation with mindfulness teacher Mark Molony, we explore a surprising idea: Perhaps we don’t carry our experiences forward at all. Perhaps we carry our memories of those experiences. And if memory is […]
What if Your Experience is Outdated With Mark Molony

You’ve spent years building your experience. But what if some of it is quietly becoming less useful? In this excerpt from my On Experience conversation with mindfulness teacher Mark Molony, we explore a question that many experienced professionals rarely ask: Could experience have a use-by date? As the pace of change accelerates, the challenge may not be […]
On Experience – Why This Conversation Exists

For most of my career, I’ve been wrestling with the same question: How do you turn what you know into something of value? And inside that, what allows one person to cut through and have a flourishing career while others with similar experience and expertise don’t? That’s been a personal challenge and a common conversation […]
When Experience Works Against You with Mark Molony

When Mark Molony walked into his first day as a social worker, he thought his training had prepared him for anything. Then a grieving widow said six words and every assumption he had fell apart. In this extract from our On Experience conversation, Mark, now a Mindfulness Teacher, exposes the insight that the most dangerous […]
Experience and the Space Before Reaction with Mark Molony

In this On Experience conversation, I speak with mindfulness teacher Mark Molony about experience, judgement, awareness, and the subtle ways expertise can both help us and mislead us. What began as a discussion about mindfulness gradually unfolded into something broader: How do we use experience without becoming trapped by it? Together, we explore: Practice Wisdom […]
Best Life! How To Master The Art Of Intentional Living

Is the art of Intentional Living the secret to your best life? And how can you make this happen? ? We’ve all been there – stuck in a rut, feeling like we’re going through the motions without any sense of direction or purpose. Staring endlessly at your phone to see what your friends are doing […]
Content Creation Process – Three big mistakes people make

What are the keys to an effective Content Creation Process? How do you consistently produce good quality content? It takes a strong commitment to create and publish content on a regular basis. It’s not easy to be consistent over time. But too many content creators and thought leaders make this harder than it needs to […]
Mark Molony – Mindfulness and Productivity
Mark Molony – Intention and Attention Mark Molony is a coach, counsellor and educator. He is the co-founder with John Bruna of the Mindful Life Program. Over the past 30 years, Mark Molony has spent a lot of time watching people trying to get things done. In fact, most of his conversations are sparked by […]