Being realistic is the most commonly travelled road to mediocrity. Will Smith When I think about the woman I will spend the rest of my life with, I’m not imagining a person who lacks intelligence or has no sense of humour. I don’t want someone who I’m not physically attracted […]
July 15, 2013
How To Use Pareto’s 80/20 Principle To Streamline Your Life
What would you say if I told you that there was a simple, yet effective way of streamlining your productivity without affecting your results? You’d call me nuts – I get that, I am a little bit. Wait up – don’t shoot the messenger, I didn’t come up with the […]
July 8, 2013
My Insane 30 Day Challenge – The Results
I must apologise for taking my time with this article. I have been pretty busy and trying to take advantage of this good weather (who knows how long it will last). FINALLY my insane 30 day challenge is over, no more, finished, done with. To be honest I am pretty […]
July 1, 2013
Everything That Happens To Me Is Great
Several years ago I came out the arse end of a ‘relationship’ and for the first real time in my life, I felt genuinely lost. It wasn’t that I was with this girl for a long time as it barely lasted a few months. The thing is that I had […]
June 18, 2013
My Insane 30 Day Challenge – Halftime Report
As I promised, here is the halfway update on my insane 30 day challenge. As expected some of these things were easier than others and I in no way believed that I would complete all of them but the whole point of this was to shock me into making some […]
June 12, 2013
Do You Realise How Lucky You Really Are?
During the summer of 2007 I had a job that was so demanding – I was constantly on the verge of curling up in the foetal position and declaring ‘game over’. It wasn’t that the job wasn’t fun, it was. Or that it was boring, it wasn’t – just that […]
June 10, 2013
How To Get Over A Relationship – The No B.S Guide
Relationships are intriguing little things. On the surface they seem awesome and we spend a lot of time trying to enter one but 99% of them will end, usually involving some form of mutual resentment and if you’re particularly unlucky, a large loss of cash. Dr Gregory House did once […]
June 6, 2013
6 Rites Of Passage That Every Blogger Must Go Through (and how to deal with it)
Blogging is awesome – it really is. Actually writing on the internet in general is pretty darn good and why wouldn’t it be? At no other point in history has a writer been given the potential to reach millions of people without a publishing deal. Yet anyone can give it […]
June 3, 2013
If it’s not difficult, then you’re doing it wrong!
How many of you complain and moan when something doesn’t go your way? How about when you take up a new hobby or try something that you have never done before? Do you hate learning new skills? Yes, juggling chainsaws is pretty darn difficult so stop doing that. It’s not […]
May 30, 2013
My Insane 30 Day Challenge
On June 1st I will start a 30 day challenge that could possibly reduce me to a quivering wreck! I am going to be testing my willpower with TEN different challenges. Way back last summer I wrote how taking part in a 30 day challenge is a great way to […]
May 28, 2013
15 reasons why today will be the best day of your life
We spend so much of our lives thinking about the past and the future that we can forget to actually live in the present. The thing is they don’t exist. They are merely false projections of the present. The past is just a collection of days that happened in the […]
May 24, 2013
Why Do We Always Settle For Second Best?
This is a shorter article today but it’s about something that I feel strongly about. Basically the idea that many people, most in fact, are going through life just accepting whatever comes their way. It’s just a case of picking low hanging fruit. Taking the easy option, remaining in your […]
May 22, 2013
The Idiots Guide To Being An Idiot
The more I read about personal development, the more I realise that everyone has it all back to front. The goal shouldn’t be to improve ourselves. It should be to screw up as often as possible because that’s infinitely more interesting. If we lived in a perfect world then life […]