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Yesterday was quite a stressful day, I’d given myself a lot to do over the next two weeks and was feeling pretty overwhelmed by everything. Every part my being wanted to not get started and leave it until tomorrow, to play the guitar or find something else productive to try and alleviate the guilt of not doing […]

Especially at the beginning of something new, when things are still up in the air and you don’t know if it’s going to work, you don’t know if people are going to buy your product or read your blog, all you can do is try. It might not work, and that’s ok, because once you’ve […]

A month has gone by, can you remember what your New Year’s resolution was? If so are you making progress on it? If your not, find the smallest step you could take today to get you closer to it and take, that’s one step closer. And if you don’t know what it was, don’t worry, […]

Saturday is here, time for relaxing, catching up on housework, getting errands sorted that you were too busy for during the week. Why not try to find one hour amongst all that to work on something you love, to work on a project you’re excited about. These things are built one step at a time.

I think we can all agree that delaying your gratification is a good thing right? But what I think sometimes gets missed is rewarding yourself along the way, because delaying your gratification can be hard work, and most people need incentives to get there, I know I do. Which is why it’s important to have […]

This was something I read in Derren Brown’s book. Epicurus, a Greek philosopher, taught that failure was not important, “for everyone will fail as life and fortune sometimes prove too much for us to virtuously handle”; tenacity is key. For instance, imagine you’ve been trying to give up smoking and have gone three months without […]

For many reasons, if you’ve been working tirelessly towards a goal with that as your sole focus then you miss what is happening now, then once you hit it you’re suddenly lost of a focus. If however, you focus on the process, focus on playing an infinite game, a game with no end, you can […]

My wife told me about a really cool budgeting idea recently, the premise is simple, on day one you either put 1p in a jar or move it into a savings account, day two 2p, day three 3p and on it goes. If you’ve never saved money before or need to build up an emergency […]

The more you put it off the bigger the task that needs done seems, with everything from around the house, to bits of work, to piles of paper that need sorting. Sometimes you just don’t feel like doing them, which is fine, but I’ve found the longer you put things off the bigger they seem […]

It can easy to make excuses not to do something, even if it’s something you seemingly enjoy. Which is why it’s important to make it easy to do in the first place. If you want to work on your painting but have to get the easel out of the loft every time you use it, […]