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. …

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…

One of my friends was getting rid of her bicycle and offered it to me. This wasn’t a completely random gift: I’ve been thinking about cycling again (after around 30 years!) as I have friends that I like to visit who are a bit too far away to walk but…

I’m struggling to write again just now. Well clearly it’s more complex than that as I’ve just managed a sentence, in fact two now. But I’m struggling to work out what to write. When I started writing here last year it was definitely just about getting the ideas out of…

I started teaching myself to play the guitar at the very end of 2020. All of last year and most of this I practised every day. But when I got COVID earlier this year I lost all enthusiasm for playing. I had the time, and the energy, but the guitar…