I’ve been meditating in one form or another for 40 years, I first discovered it as a kid through yoga and I didn’t think of it as meditation then, just conscious breathing. Fifteen years ago this occasional anonymous practice became more systematic and got a name, Vipassana Meditation, now a...
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. One of the most powerful motivators in life and the source of great life satisfaction is to make progress and while it sounds...
I realised a few years ago that poor comparisons are one of biggest impediments to happiness and progress in our lives: we compare our inner thoughts and doubts to the the glossy outside mask that other people often show us we compare our worldly goods to those of the richest...
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 part of HP’s happiness at work initiative they have listed 25 new places to work. I’ve repeated the list (minus a few of the less relevant ones like the Eiffel Tower!) below with my comments in blue: The garden. There’s nothing like an English summer. And even if the...
I’m a mobile worker and a happy one, but I can imagine that lots of mobility projects just provide more burdens on the time of already stressed out employees. The whole always on, can’t go 5 minutes without email culture seems to be replacing face to face contact and telephone...
I’m currently brainstorming ideas for my new home office, I spend about 6 hours a day in it right now, so its the most important (time wise at least) space in my life. Debbie and I currently share the room and I essentially have one quarter of the wall space,...
Scott Adams over on the Dilbert blog has an interesting post where he talks about the please of getting things done, in his example: The other day I cleaned off the top of my desk. This involved sorting the rubble into mounds that had something in common, and then dealing...
A couple of weeks ago I heard a manager say that employee morale was not a management issue, I hope I heard wrong, but I don’t think I did. To be fair though I don’t think the manager concerned really meant what he said and was in fact referring to...
Over the last few years I have been much more conscious of stress, I am able to detect it and don’t tend to miss the symptoms hiding away behind the adrenalin fuelled activity. I just came across this article which provides a very shot, but very insightful analysis of some...