Category: life
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Post of the Month – May 2020 – The Vote
Thanks for the nominations. So our vote this month is between: Chaz’s 100 Things Planners Should Know by Chaz Wigley Fever Dream by Mel Exon Banana Yazoo saved my life by Kerry Roper Five steps that brands can take to genuinely show that black lives matter by Vivienne Dovi Lay off the Covid Clones by Victoria Milne Facing Things…
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My Father and Other Turning Points
My father died suddenly and somewhat prematurely at the age of 65 in 1998. I had just turned 30 at the time and it hit me with some force. I remember promising myself that I would hold it together at his funeral and then crying almost uncontrollably when I read out my remembrance of him.…
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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 jump to give them some tips on what to expect and how to…
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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 perfect solution but I think alongside trying to reduce non-essential travel it at…
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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 the shape of what I've been doing all year. It's also my habit…
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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 Warren Buffett and Bill Gates about the importance of keeping time free for…
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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 a scar across our collective soul. Yet virtually no one talks about it.'…
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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 of what I've been up to work-wise as a thinking-out-loud way of doing…
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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 good looks like in this context of-course but the publisher seems very happy,…