My work now looks at a simple assumption that can quietly shape our relationship with life, ourselves and other people: that our peace of mind depends upon certain conditions being met.

Rather than trying to persuade anyone of a particular way of thinking, I’m interested in creating conversations where we can look at that assumption together, notice how it appears in everyday life and see what changes when it begins to look less convincing.

One Payoff In Brief
One Payoff explores why we make our peace of mind conditional on things being a certain way, and what changes when we see this for ourselves.

Mission
To create conversations that help people recognise where they may have placed unnecessary conditions on their peace of mind.

Vision
A world in which peace of mind is no longer conditional on circumstances.

Hello, my name is Phil Knox. For more than three decades, I’ve worked with people around personal change, human behaviour and wellbeing. Over time, I became increasingly interested not so much in the differences between people’s struggles, but in the common pattern that often seemed to sit beneath them. That exploration gradually became One Payoff.