Over the last year I’ve used the Coach Me app on my iPhone and iPad to track all of the aspects of my life that I want to promote or prevent. For example I wanted to have more family meals and less high pain days, I wanted to spend more...
Well, I took the plunge, inspired by Microsoft’s January Launch of Windows 10, I’ve decided that the only way to really evaluate it is to use it. I’m already 2/3 Microsoft. The heart of my home is a HP Micro server running Windows 8, 3 TB of media, backups and...
Microsoft continued it’s gradual unveil of Windows 10 yesterday. It didn’t touch on any of the enterprise features, which have been strangely down played so far, but it did clearly demonstrate its vision of a single platform spanning all form factors. For the first time in over a decade it...
Passion is important in life. People often develop a passion for their work because they work hard at it, get good at it, make progress and get positive feedback. It’s rare that they start out with this passion, they just take the first step ‘work hard’ and the rest follows...
Over the last few years I’ve found Facebook to be useful as a way to keep in touch with friends and family, to watch their lives unfold from afar. Unfortunately when I open up Facebook now that’s not what I see, instead of news about people I care about, I...
I’ve been experimenting with improving my work life balance for decades and my approach has mainly been one of work-life integration; where I seamlessly integrate work activities with ‘life activities’ through the day. But the idea of balance had gradually asserted more prominence in my approach; it no longer seems...
Make my health my first job, I’m in the fortunate position that I’m financially able to make recovering my health my first job, but intellectually this has been difficult to come to terms with. Last year I made some steps in the right direction, this year I’m going to double...
Essentialism was an interesting book to read while reflecting on the last year and planning for the next. My plan for next year is defined by: doing less; focusing more; being kind to myself – all topics addressed to a greater or lesser degree by the book. The over-arching theme...
I’ve achieved a lot in 2014, but there are a few things that I’ve failed on, I’m intending to try and fix these. But I’m also planning to be a little kinder to myself; to reduce the number of objectives I have; to worry less about work; to leave more...
I already have so many books that I want to read, it’s difficult to justify adding new books to the list in 2015. Instead I’ve decided to work though my library and pick ones that I already have. This is nicely in keeping with the new found joy that I’ve...