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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
So I have all these limes to hold, right? It’s tough because there are more limes than I can hold in my arms at once. Seriously, what do you do when you have so many limes? 1. Juggle Them You learn to juggle. Put the limes aside for a bit and pick up a book [...]
Last weekend I went to Southampton’s Ropewalk Community Garden to pick some medlars. The facebook event extolled their virtues as ingredients for wine, cakes and jam. When I heard of the opportunity one thing immediately sprang to mind: What the hell’s a medlar? Well it’s a fruit, fairly common on trees in England but not so much [...]