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The Things That Didn’t Go Well

Thursday, January 5th, 2012

I don’t want to pretend that everything I did this year was a success, because it wasn’t. I’m only human and definitely prone to failure (something I’d like to actually do more often, if we’re honest). Things for other people There was a lot of stuff that I did last year not because I wanted [...]

2012: A New Direction

Sunday, January 1st, 2012

Well 2012 I think is going to be a year of habits. Internet blogger Leo Babauta is a little bit of an inspiration to me. Bits of advice I picked up from his blog, Zen Habits, sort of helped me do a lot of the things I’ve done in the past couple of years, and [...]

Looking Back

Friday, December 23rd, 2011

So we’re coming to the end of 2011, and all of the blogs are starting to do that “what I did in the past 12 months” post. I’m going to do it slightly differently. Home sweet home I’m at my Dad’s house for Christmas this year. I sat down with my brother Adam today and [...]

Set Sail For Your Destiny

Thursday, December 8th, 2011

Quit your job! Work from home! Be your own boss! What a load of bollocks. Step one: buy boat. If you want to cut loose from the moorings that keep you from drifting out to sea, make sure you’ve got a course planned first. Make sure you have a structure. This is different from um-ing [...]

Waiting To Share

Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011

When I write blog posts, songs or other things I want to show off to the world, I tend to want to publish them immediately. But is this really the best way to work? I’m not so sure any more. When you’re in the moment of creation you can feel incredibly passionate about what you’re [...]

A Little Project Brewing

Tuesday, November 15th, 2011

I’ve made a decision, I think. I’ve got a little project brewing. It’s a bit different from the other projects I’ve done so it’s pretty scary, but it’s also only small. Stop Waiting With anything scary and with the possibility of failure comes resistance, and wanting to take the “best” or the “most right” or [...]

What Johnny Mead & His Cohorts Don’t Want You To Know About Success (Plus Free Ebook!)

Saturday, October 22nd, 2011

Why do so many bloggers live in Portland? Loads of them do, seriously. It must be blogger paradise. I bet they all sit around and have LAN parties and motivational workshops all the time there. Do you think it’s Portland that creates these people or does it attract them like magnets or flies?   What [...]

On Big Bad Beasts and Cool Little Things

Monday, September 26th, 2011

Oh wow oh wow, look at all this stuff there is that needs to be done! And look at all of these people, they’re so excited – they think your Big Thing is going to be AMAZING. Oh but it’s just a Baby Thing really – you’re going to have to do so much more [...]

Apples of My Eye

Monday, September 12th, 2011

It’s September, and it’s apple season. There are loads of apple trees all over Southampton, I headed to one on the East Common, along with a few transition members and Alan Gibson, the Urbane Forager. Man, there were so many apples! And it was only one tree! I must have enough apples to last me [...]

Cultivating a One Track Mind

Wednesday, July 27th, 2011

Hey yo. With all this productivity knowledge from reading blogs and having an awesome slick GTD system in place, why am I not as successful as Tim Ferris or Ryan North already? Doing Too Much This goes back to the limes thing. I’m attracted to too many things. Aside from wanting to run a food [...]