[Picture credit: Me, Croyde, now]
I Have this writer friend, he’s quite a big deal. He encourages me with with ambiguous statements like “you’re on the right track” which coming from him I take to mean “YOU ARE AWESOME”.… Read the rest
A friend asked me a question the other day; she said “Other than having your kids, what was the best thing you ever did?” And then she quickly followed up with “And your worst thing that ever happened to you, what was that?”.… Read the rest
Sometimes, just being aware of something seems to pull us toward that thing magnetically. Not in some ‘secret’ universe will help you out way, but simply because you’ll navigate in that direction by yourself.
Once we know something (or think we know something) we have a tendency to put so much pressure on ourselves to adhere to the rules and constrictions as defined by the new thing we’ve learned that we cause ourselves an unhealthy amount of unnecessary stress in the process, quite often negating the improvements we were looking for in the first place.… Read the rest
Ola dudes. This is a new thing.
Being a prize geek I’m often surrounding myself with random collections of thoughts, writing, stuff, things, experiences and general weirdness that in themselves might not add up to much.… Read the rest
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
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?
… Read the restHINT: 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
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
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
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
