One of the strategies that I adopted to help me recover my health was to take one week a month away from the day to day pressures of work. The plan was that I would still work, but I would withdraw from meetings, email and other distractions. Instead I would...
I finished listening to Hatching Twitter yesterday on the drive back from Cambridge, this will be the last time I take Steph, so it’s the end of an era. It’s fitting then that my entertainment on this journey was all about major personal change and how different people cope with...
This post is part of a series that makes up my Simple Guide To Health which is part of a broader collection of posts on Living Well. In keeping with the other guides in this series I’m going to provide my best tips for calming the mind in priority order,...
My youngest two children turned 16 today, a major landmark for them and me. Whilst I still have four children I guess I should really be thinking of them all as the wonderful young ladies they are and preparing for them to leave the nest. Steph is already well on...
I’ve always been a huge advocate of the need for enterprises to focus on Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) before they even consider enterprise knowledge management. Enterprise Knowledge Management just being a thin skim of services that enable discovery of information that’s promoted from PKM. That promotion can be very light...
This post is part of a series that makes up my Simple Guide To Health which is part of a broader collection of posts on Living Well. In developing my own approach to exercise and movement in general, I’ve been forced to confront my own limitations. If I do too...
This post is part of a series that makes up my Simple Guide To Health which is part of a broader collection of posts on Living Well. I consider good sleep to be the bedrock of good health and it’s key enabler for the discipline/willpower that we need to work...
This post is part of a series that makes up my Simple Guide To Health which is part of a broader collection of posts on Living Well. Most books on health intentionally define it in a narrow fashion that suits their agenda, or they define it in a way that...
One of the topics that I’m intending to write about in my Simple Guide To Mental And Physical Health is the need for a sense of purpose in life and the need to make progress towards that purpose. I’ve been doing some research in this area and comparing it to...
Debbie and I went to Cleveleys today, had brunch at Cafe Cove and sat down with some trepidation to watch Noah. Overall I found it worth the investment and it sparked some good discussions and little research by me by way of follow up. I can sum up my thoughts...