Category: life
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Some Advice on Doing Your Own Thing
Unbelievably it's now ten years since I left corporate world and took the leap to do my own thing. Over that time I've often been asked by people who are about to take the leap themselves or who have just made the […]
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Offsetting
Over the last few years my international travel for work has increased quite a lot so for 2020 I'm going to be offsetting all the flights that I take and using MyClimate to support sustainable investment projects worldwide. Offsetting is not a […]
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Shipped in 2019
Every year around this time it has become my habit to do something that I find really useful and yet never seem to manage to do in the rush of the day-to-day – to take a step back and actually look at […]
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Choices About Time
How we spend our time and where we place our attention are two of the most important choices we make (and yet this often seems to be more arbitrary and reactive than it should really be). I loved this point made by […]
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Bullshit Jobs
'Huge swathes of people, in Europe and North America in particular, spend their entire working lives performing tasks they secretly believe do not really need to be performed. The moral and spiritual damage that comes from this situation is profound. It is […]
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Shipped in 2018
Sometimes it's good to take a step back from the rush of the day-to-day and really look at the bigger picture of what you do in order to take stock. So every year around this time I write a sort of review […]
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Reflections on Writing a Book
I can hardly believe it but last week marked the one year anniversary of my book being published. Happily it seems to have done really well since launch, selling a lot more than I'd ever anticipated (it's very difficult to gauge what […]
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Happiness is a Choice You Make
Journalist John Leland spent a year learning life lessons from the 'oldest old' (aged 85+) for his book Happiness Is a Choice You Make: Lessons from a Year Among the Oldest Old. There were some deceptively simple findings (including the importance of gratitude, […]