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WHEN YOU CAN’T SEE THE WAY FORWARD — DO THE NEXT THING
Sometimes life just doesn’t go our way. You make a plan. It falls apart. You try another way. That doesn’t work either. Then another problem lands on top of the first one, and suddenly you’re standing there thinking: “I honestly don’t know what to do next.” That’s when I try to come back to something we teach at Everyday Bushcraft: You don’t have to solve everything. You just have to work out the next thing you can do. In the bush, when things go wrong, running around trying

gbucknell
Sep 32 min read


Focus the Light: Turning Attention into Action
Have you ever started a fire with a magnifying glass? It seems almost like magic. You hold a simple piece of glass between the sun and a piece of tinder. At first, nothing happens. Sunlight is everywhere—on your hands, on the ground, on the trees, on the tinder—but nothing is burning. Then you adjust the lens. The scattered sunlight begins to concentrate into one tiny, intensely bright point. You hold it there. A little smoke appears. You resist the temptation to move it arou

gbucknell
Aug 274 min read


The Moon Talk
How to keep your family or team on course with simple mid-course corrections Getting to the moon isn’t one perfect launch and a straight line to the target. Whether you’re navigating in the bush, flying an aircraft, or steering a project at work, you’re constantly making small corrections to stay on track. Wind shifts. Terrain changes. Priorities move. People get tired. Life happens. A Moon Talk is a deliberate check-in designed to do exactly that: adjust course early, while

gbucknell
Jan 94 min read


The Everyday Way
Living the Everyday Way – A Framework for Resilience, Simplicity, and Strength In a world that’s become increasingly fast, complicated,...

gbucknell
Aug 1, 20253 min read
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