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I’ve missed my own deadline! A week off six months of getting my blog post written by 3 o’clock so that it gets sent out at 4.30 pm and I’ve forgotten, it’s now 5 and I’m just sitting down to do it. But Tenacity over Perfection. I’m going to write again tomorrow morning in plenty […]

When you establish a routine of doing the work you want to do one of the most important things is to keep showing up. Show up when you feel like, when you don’t feel like it, when you can’t face it and when you can’t wait to. If you’re writing decide what days you’re writing […]

The house I’m currently renting, I was surprised to realise, came with the agreement that the landlord would pay for a gardener to come every fortnight. He did this through the last of the summer while we were here last year and his first visit was yesterday. He set about with the lawnmower and the […]

We have a duty of care to lots of things in our lives, our family, our relationships, our pets and even to the work we’re doing. But first and foremost we have a duty of care to ourselves. Because you can’t take the load of being responsible for others when you have rocky foundations, so […]

Rest, relax, recover, and get ready to get to get back on it tomorrow. It’s sunday after all, what better day for some TLC for yourself?

There are some things you can do while you’re working that make you feel really good, useful, and productive when in fact they aren’t. My worst habit for this is checking all the various analytics across all my websites, at my worst I’d be checking in up to 10 times a day to see if […]

The words of Neil Gaiman on the Tim Ferris podcast, as part of his writing process he will go to the gazebo at the bottom of his garden to sit and write, and while he’s sitting there he allows himself to do one of two things, he can write, or he can do nothing. And […]

It is a wonderful feeling when the coals burn hot inside you and you’re ready to work, you sit down for hours and hours totally zoned in until you look up and realise it’s dark outside. And that’s great, make hay while the sun shines, but if you’re not careful the following days won’t involve […]

I’m sure that will cause a puzzled look in those of you who are already regular readers but it was only in doing my reading challenge last year that I really learned how to use a bookshop. Because if you don’t already read regularly it is a confusing and intimidating place to go into, and […]

I’m coming up on 6 months of daily blogging and the act of writing is still difficult. What’s easier is now I know to come and sit down at the same time every morning and open up WordPress with no other distractions. If I do that then sit for long enough a blog post comes […]