Over the past couple of years I’ve been taking a handful of CDs from my collection and having them in the car to listen to. The car is the only place where I can now play CDs so I decided to review everything and only keep the ones I’d want…

I recently read The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can’t Stand Positive Thinking by Oliver Burkeman. This was an interesting and inspiring read on many levels. The one thing that I felt was an immediate takeaway for me boils down to the following advice: Imagine that you are eighty years…

Do you seem to be busy all the time but then realise at the end of many days you don’t feel like you’ve really achieved anything? That if someone asked you what was the best thing about the day you wouldn’t have an answer? Me too! I recently read Make…

2021 was the first time I’d set myself explicitly defined goals for the year. This worked really well to help pull myself out of the hole that the global challenges of 2020 had helped me to sink into. I was going to use the same approach this year, but instead…

A really quick one today. Which is ironic… For around the past 18 months I have been trying to go out for a walk every day. Originally the main purpose of these walks was to get me out of the house for a change of scenery and also to increase…

Do you get to the point that something stops working and then look to fix it? That used to be my default mode, particularly when I felt I was short of time. But having been in that situation several times (sometimes with financial implications) I have developed an attitude of…

As the mornings have got lighter (and warmer) my morning routine has evolved. I reviewed what I’m trying to achieve by purposefully using the first hour of my day to ensure that it’s not just habit shaping those early moments. I decided that my intentions are to: Look forward to…

There are things in life that it’s just assumed are good for you: eating your vegetables, regular exercise, reading. Well it turns out you definitely can have too much of a good thing. And my good thing is reading. Over the past few years I have prioritised reading over activities…

Having more time is one of those things that everyone says isn’t possible. And objectively of course it isn’t; we have the time that we have and we certainly can’t buy any more. But looking at how we choose to spend our time has the potential to free up time…