“Have you done your homework?” When it came to my homework nothing else mattered to my parents. They didn’t ask how well I had done it or what I had learnt. ‘Done’ was what we measured when it came to homework in my house growing up. We’ve all heard a variation of the phrases, what…
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Leading a small life
My sister leads a small life. She owned a toyshop in a small coastal village. A couple of years ago she moved to one of my favourite cities in the world and she’s working out what she wants next out of life, and she’s taking her time. My sister doesn’t make a lot of money,…
3 pieces of advice from the only person I ever considered a mentor
The ad agency was in trouble. Morale was low, our creative product sucked, and our clients were bullying us into making some really crap ads. We just didn’t seem to be able to do anything right. It’s not like we didn’t have creative or strategic talent. We did. We lacked the leadership to stand up…
Businesses have forgotten how to win
I was in a fist fight once. I was fighting Greg. Greg was bigger than me. But I was tougher, at least, that’s what I thought. I was confident I’d win the fight. Greg and met in the common room of our boarding house. It was late, after lights out. It was winter. We circled…
Check for teeth before deciding not to throw the baby out with the bath water
I drive to work most days. I always take the same route. On my commute I listen to audio books and don’t concentrate much on the road or the traffic. I’m on autopilot for most of the way. Everything is muscle memory. My brain is so used to the drive that it has decided my…
Want to be interesting? Do this.
This is my second attempt at writing a post on how to be interesting. I have a full draft of a similar themed post that has remained unpublished for over a year now sitting in the background. The reason I never published that article is because I had an uncanny sense that I’d missed something;…
Learn don’t envy
Where you compare yourself to somebody else and feel disappointment, a pang of envy, that is where you should focus your curiosity. I’m currently enrolled in a fiction writing course. There are eleven other students on the course and we all have very different backgrounds. A couple of the students are already published authors. We…
What we want from work
Added up, work will take up a full 14 years of our lives – that’s 14 years of 24/7 work. And during those 14 years our employers and clients expect us to occupy ourselves with whatever they deem important or necessary. And considering the amount of time we’re expected to do work, it stands to…
So, what will it take?
“There is no way of telling people that they are all walking around shining like the sun.” Thomas Merton We have all felt it. That feeling of certainty coursing through us. A certainty in our abilities to achieve anything. A vital energy that convinces us that we’re ready to turn the impossible into reality. Those…
How you see the world dictates how you live
“Making money is not a thing that you do – it’s a skill that you learn.” Naval Ravikant Many wealthy people say that making money is a skill anyone can learn. They claim that if they were dropped in the middle of a strange city with no money that, as long as they spoke the…