A while ago I posted a quick vid about my bulletproof Yerba Mate tea, one of my favourite morning elixirs when I want to either smash a run, start a fasting day or just generally focus on specific tasks for hours at a time.… Read the rest
Brain fried? Trouble getting to sleep with all those pesky thinkies mooching about in your headspace, trouncing your tranquillity? Me too, here’s a couple of tips:
This is going to be as quick to read as it is to perform so no excuses bucko!… Read the rest
Of course, that title doesn’t make any sense, not if you’re using dull old chronology to figure it out anyway. But it may actually still be true. Everything you need to put you into that holy grail state of tranquillity that is the closest approximation to true happiness that I reckon any of us can aspire to may have already happened at some point in your unknown future.… Read the rest
Firstly, let’s all congratulate me on the cheesiest post title I’ve ever written; shamelessly topical with a smattering of poor me. But that’s not really what I’m aiming for of course. I wanted to write about something that I’m embarrassed to admit I struggle with and how I deal with it.… Read the rest
“You’re brown; have you been away?” Says pretty much everybody I see, including random strangers who have zero point of reference for my average daily melanin status at the moment. This is my most heard phrase from roughly May onwards; every year for the past ten years.… Read the rest
I love running, paddle boarding and listening to music (often at the same time) but they don’t put me into a flow state. They give me way too much space to ruminate. Having sex, surfing, climbing and playing my ukulele on the other hand (not usually at the same time) slam me hard and fast (and sometimes gently) into the moment.… Read the rest
Almost into February and I’m only just posting my first words of 2017! That’s not laziness, honestly, it’s been a crazy start to the year already; work is off the chart, the kids haven’t miraculously stopped needing four football related activities a week and I still work a full time job and have to quit at 2pm three times a week to pick them up from school on my epic 30 mile school run!… Read the rest
Uncommon sense works for me; I’m not sure nodding along to the wisdom of the masses is always the way forwards (quite the opposite in most cases I reckon). Here’s five thoughts that tend to get shot down before I have chance to explain myself if I try to voice them.… Read the rest
I’ve never liked the term ‘common sense’, it sounds too much like ‘accepted blah’ to me. What follows is some gentle anti-advice that you might not get anywhere else…
I spent a couple of days in Croyde (North Devon, UK) recently to get a little surfing and writing done and I wandered past the surf school where I took my first lesson around ten years ago.… Read the rest
That’s a scary boatload of responsibility right there eh? Nobody is going to save you, you’re on your own. You are an island.
It’s not the cold hard truth that it first appears though; it’s actually the answer you’re looking for.… Read the rest
