On the drive to the office today I listened to one of my favourite podcasts, The TED Radio Hour on the topic of Overcoming and it really struck a chord with me as it discussed two of the major challenges I’ve faced that forced me to rebuild my life. I thought it would be...
My first meeting of the day was a walking meeting with Gary around Astley Park. Walking meetings seem to have four advantages, Gary and I get to avoid the perils of sitting and get some exercise, Gary’s not constantly distracted by the stream of ‘important’ emails that constantly flood his inbox...
This morning started badly, I’m adjusting to some new pain killers and they are really knocking me out, making it very hard to wake up and clear my head well enough to meditate, but I struggled through and headed off to the Beach Terrace Cafe to do my morning reading....
Years ago I used to find blogging a very rewarding hobby, but as happens all too often I got out of the habit and it’s been difficult to get back into it. I’m currently at the point of considering restarting and planning to write mostly journal type articles in a...
12 Months ago I embarked on a fairly radical restructuring of my work and home life, in order to allow me to focus on my health by improving my mastery over my mind and body. A year ago you might say that I mostly worked until I dropped, where dropping...
I’m on my third iPad. The first one was a WIFI only iPad 1 with 32 GB of memory, it didn’t last long. I found it distracting rather than productive and whilst I loved using Instapaper on it I found I could do most things with the Kindle. I found...
A few years ago when I started working a 4 hour day I was in a global role, working mainly with the US. That meant I had my mornings free and I established a pattern of spending them walking, cycling and swimming with rest break at Cafe’s spent reading. I...
I’ve suffered from migraines for most of my life, but 8 years ago they got much more frequent, up from 2 a month to 10-15 a month. There was a clear link between this increase and developing Adult Onset Still Disease and I often discussed this with my GP and...
A few tips on how I use my Kindle Case I started out thinking I didn’t need a case for my Kindle, but over the months I realised that this was a mistake: A case means you worry less A case makes it easier to hold the Kindle, even though...
I have a Kindle and an iPad, but its the Kindle that’s had the biggest impact on my life – so what’s so great about the Kindle? The Kindle is for reading, whilst the iPad is optimised for distraction. Yes it’s possible to do almost everything the Kindle does on...