Every time the season changes, I declare the new season to be my favourite of all the seasons. Spring? It's bright and shiny and green and vital.Everything seems to expand in all directions to the sound of birds and jingling. Autumn is mists and mellow fruitfulness, golden evenings and crunchy leaves to run through (yes, [...]
We need to talk about gin. Specifically, gooseberry gin. Even more specifically, the bottle of gooseberry gin that arrived beautifully packaged and addressed to me, accompanying a card from Sarah, one of my Superheroes. I know I'm a bit flippant sometimes, but I actually have all the feelz. Too many of them, a lot of [...]
Do you read in the bath? A perfect evening for me might be a bucket of wine, a bubble bath, and a good book. And prune feet. And a cat sitting on the edge of the bath staring at me. Sadly, we do not have a bath at the moment (consequence of living in a [...]
If I hear one more plastic guru shrieking about 24/7 HUSTLE and TAKE MASSIVE ACTION I will roll my eyes so hard they may just pop out of my head. Because that kind of shit holds us all back. We start believing that we should achieving massive wins every week, every day. We think that [...]
Look around your industry. Go online, look on LinkedIn, check out forums, and look around in the real world, too. How many people are having fun with their businesses? Very few, I'll wager. Because when I look around at all the coaches and trainers and marketers hawking their wares to business owners, most of what [...]
Sometimes, everything goes to balls. Like today, for instance. One of those days where all your plans just go *pooooooft* But I'm going to make like Buster Keaton and roll with it. Buster Keaton is one of my all-time favourite actors, stuntmen, filmmakers, and acrobats. If you've never seen one of his films, shame on [...]
When you're drowning in 35,629 Things To Do and you're exhausted and you can't see an end to it, running away seems like a good plan. To a cave, on a mountain, with nobody else in sight. I was talking to one of my book coaching clients the other day. She's fallen behind because her [...]
I was talking to a friend a couple of days ago. She shall remain nameless to protect the loony. And we were talking about her Man Woes. Specifically, how she kept running face-first into tiny willies. And so she’s done with men (for now) while she works out a different strategy. After I'd stopped snorting [...]
Turn a little to the left... dip your chin... lower your eyelashes... tilt your head slightly -- there! That's it! DUCKFACE! Repeat ad naseum, all day and all night. This, ladles and jellyspoons, is the modern horror. The Narcissistic Selfie Monster. People so absorbed in taking pictures of themselves and posting them on social media, [...]
Nothing is impossible. By evolving, we self-actualize. Profound, isn't it? NO. NO IT'S NOT. IT'S UTTER BULLSHIT. Just like 99.999999999% of those awful motivational and inspiration memes that clog up social media. Motivational bullshit is one of my favourite "let's get ragey" topics because posting that nonsense has the exact opposite effect. Wanna know why? [...]