This post in in honour of the How I Work series on Lifehacker that I really love to read Location: Lytham St Annes on the west coast of the UK Current Gig: Mainly workplace wervices strategy and optimisation One word that best describes how you work: Differently Current mobile devices:...
I’ve seen my fair share of people burning out at work and I’ve experienced it myself several times. Most often it’s been a temporary experience for me, fixed by a relaxing weekend, but sometimes it’s more systematic. Many years ago I managed a couple of people who had burned out...
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. A someone who’s never really played sports or watched them for that matter, the thing I’m missing most now that my kids are...
As reader’s of this blog know I’m in the most embryonic stages of writing a book, or two, so I’ve been considering the process. This has got me thinking about ideas in general and how much effort it takes to realise them. I have many ideas that I’ve been working...
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. Modern life is seductively complex, at it’s core this complexity comes from too many things and too many choices. Both things and choices...
Like many people, I’ve daydreamed about writing books. For a long time I thought this might be something I would eventually get around to in retirement, over the last year though I’ve changed my mind. I’ve decided that writing a book is going to take too long to keep putting...
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 case you’re confused this isn’t another post on mindfulness meditation this guide concerns mindful living. In mindful living the object is to...
When I was 30 my 10 year plan was to build a new career focussed on delivering value from IT Infrastructure, earn £45K a year (in todays terms) and be there for my wife and kids. I exceeded all of these but in doing so contributed to significant health problems. ...
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...