I’ve been thinking about my productivity, since I’ve restarted blogging. Blogging takes perhaps an hour a day, an hour that I didn’t think I could easily find. Strangely that hour blogging seems to have increased my perception of available time though and this post explores why. Blogging has provided me...
As part of my efforts to restore my health over the last decade I’ve done quite a lot of research into happiness. I’ve also developed a deep interest in sustainable living and how we cope globally with rising consumption and dwindling resources. I’ve felt for a long time that the...
In my recent reading on health I’ve been focussed on the body’s ability to heal itself. There are a few themes that seem to be recurring and at their core is the idea that if you look after the body at a cellular level, the body will look after you. ...
I finished listening to The Obstacle is the Way: The Ancient Art of Turning Adversity to Advantage this morning, it’s been a good book to listen to over the last few days as I faced a new set of challenges with Stills Disease and finally got through them as I...
I’ve used my unfair share of painkillers over the years, being a chronic migraine and body pain sufferer. I’ve always considered them to be mostly harmless, moderately effective but too easy to pop. About 3 years ago I discovered that the pain meds I had been prescribed for my migraines...
For much of my life I’ve spent a lot of time away from home, either studying or travelling on business. Then illness and a change in job role meant a transition to working from home and rarely travelling and for 10 years I relished it. I loved that I got...
Like all good strategists I’m planning for my retirement, which will probably come some time in the next 5 years. Retirement will bring with it the biggest change in my lifestyle since I became chronically ill about 13 years ago. Such a huge change requires careful consideration and one of...
I’ve just started to read the classic Meditations by Marcus Aurelius and it opens with a description of the people who shaped his life. It struck me that I’m gradually forgetting the names of those that shaped mine, so I had better get them written down quickly, they are important...
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. Toxins come in many forms, but it’s very easy to go through life without being that aware of them. This post isn’t going...
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 myself incredibly lucky and I try to practice being grateful for that luck, but being grateful isn’t enough, over the years...