In December last year I decided that this year was going to mark a change; a year that I needed to take seriously; to plan; and measure. This shift in my focus came for three big reasons: My health was starting to decline again, after a few years of improvement...
I’m having a bit of fun today with this post, in fact I intend to indulge myself on my blogs quite a bit over the next few weeks. I thought ruling the world was a good place to start – although I’m not really going to pretend that I rule...
In recent years, especially in the USA, a few leading companies have introduced a policy of offering their staff ‘unlimited’ vacation time. At first this new policy innovation seems to have been greeted with enthusiasm, but it’s not turned out as well as expected. The intent seems to have been...
This month has been hard. I’ve had 20 days filled with pain, struggling with brain fog and fatigue, but I’ve also had to force myself to keep working; propping myself up with pain killers, sleep meds and Red Bull. It was not a good strategy, the myriad habits that I’ve...
I’ve become uncomfortable with ‘flooding’ this blog with work related blog posts. I’d like to keep it focused on the things that I’m passionate about, the things I would write books about if I had the time and talent. So I’m experimenting with a new blog where I will be focused...
I’m in one of those vicious cycles of decline, no clear idea of what triggered it and no clear way out of it. It’s the complexity of decline that makes doctors run for the door and leaves me one my own struggling forward. As is my habit I often like...
I’m not one to drift through life without a plan of action, even at school and university I was always focused on doing just enough work to succeed, but not too much as to curtail the rest of my life. So one of the first things that I did when...
I was up early this morning, excited to get in 30 minutes on my exercise bike watching TED talks before walking on the beach and enjoying the amazing sunrise. I like to pick TED talks pretty much at random and be ‘pleasantly surprised’. It’s ironic then that today I got...
There’s endless talk on the blogs about the dangers of sitting often linked to the benefits of a standing desk. I agree completely with the former, but the idea of standing still for long stretches of the day fills me with horror. In my experience there’s nothing worse for me...
A few days ago I read the book Waking Up after also reading about a new kind of Christianity. Both books started me on a journey of self discovery. I’ve always been an atheist, so hearing others describe atheism is interesting but not mind expanding. What’s really interesting is discovering...