Cry Heart, But Don’t Break (How To Heal A Broken Heart)
A breaking heart turns out to be the daddy of feeling bad. I’ve run the gamut of tricky emotions over the years, like we all have; fear and anxiety chief among them. But heartache sits high above the others with it’s sheer, overwhelming presence.… Read the rest
The First 100 Miles: How I Started Running At 41 (and love it, injury free. Mostly).
List of reasons I hated running and avoided it for 40 years (my entire life):
- It makes my knees hurt
- It’s dull
- I’m bored just thinking about it
- It makes my ankles hurt
- It makes everything hurt
- I can’t breath if I try to run to the end of the street
- I’m falling asleep and hurting just thinking about it
- I actually love walking but if I run all my joints will snap and I won’t be able to walk anymore
Sound familiar?
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HINT: I’m Wittering on quite a bit here: Feel free to scrub forwards to about 2:25 minutes where I start getting to the ‘how to’ bit if you can’t be bothered with my small talk and save yourself a whole 2 minutes!… Read the rest
The Case For Making Plans Rather Than Winging It
All the hip kids are winging it. Anything else and you’re a control freak. “just chill man, whatever happens, happens. Let nature take it’s course.” they’ll no doubt espouse. And to an extent, they are perfectly correct (but no more hip for that); whatever happens, does indeed do exactly that, it happens.… Read the rest
19 Easy Tips For Tranquility: My Minimum Effective Dose For Happiness
This is the shortest blog post I’ve ever written (I do tend to witter on…). It’s a bunch of curated thoughts that have been running through my head of late that form a simple instructional list of small things to make me (and maybe you) happier.… Read the rest
The Top 5 Uncommon Tranquility Hacks For Stressed Parents
I’ve got two growing boys, 8 & nearly 13, I run a digital marketing consultancy and I have a gazillion ‘hobbies’. My mind is often fried, my time is precious and I have to multi-task like you wouldn’t (or perhaps would) believe.… Read the rest
Why I Paused Learning And Started Perfecting
“Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he may add his ten toes, and lump the rest. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!” Henry David Thoreau
I’ve been getting a bit stressed out lately.… Read the rest
Why You’re Addicted To Bad News And How a News Diet Can Increase Your Tranquility
Why your ‘negative bias’ might be making you anxious…
40,000 years ago your great, great (add however many greats you like depending on your maths/history skills) stone age grandfather, whilst out hunting for wild boar to feed his family (like you going to work today but very old school) came to a small group of trees.… Read the rest
Abundant Dad: How To Rock Fatherhood And Still Have Time For Yourself
The words ‘abundant dad’ wandered into my mind this morning and I knew that by this afternoon it would be a blog post. The term seemed to capture what it is I try to be and I needed to write it down, explore it and share it because it could be important.… Read the rest
How Filtering Your Life Can Make You Happier (and thinner and stronger and smarter)
The problem with stuff is that there’s just so much of it. Even the good stuff; the stuff we really want to pull into our lives. If we actually took the time to follow every whim, every trend, every inspiration, every recommendation from every peer, well meaning colleague or ‘expert’ then we’d hardly find the time to actually USE any of it because we’d be too ‘busy’ trying to GET it all!… Read the rest
