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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, […]

Even though you’re tired, even though you don’t have the time, and even though you’re scared. Start anyway. Because once you’ve taken the first step the second step becomes easier and from there you’ll get where you’re going eventually. The alternative is that you don’t, and another year will go by and you’ll still be […]

To become a good writer first you have to be a bad writer. Likewise, to be a good guitarist you first have to be a bad guitarist, or an entrepreneur or anything else. Every single person you admire for their greatness started off doing it badly, but more often than not you’ll never see the work […]

I’ve started noticing a strange pattern of some of the posts on this blog, now and again I’ll sit down to write my post for the day, come up with the idea, finish the post, and not be happy with it. I can never tell why, I’ll just read it back and get a feeling […]

It’s hard to sit down and write a book, but it’s easy to sit down and write 100 words. Very often when I sit down to write content for my other projects I’ll have a 2000-3000 word article ahead of me on a topic I might not be that excited about. And it’s hard to […]

I had my first sauna in about 6 weeks yesterday after being ill to various degrees over Christmas and it was phenomenal. Not just because I love being in there but because it allowed me 20 uninterrupted minutes free from distraction to just think. To reflect on work, how I’m spending my time, and anything […]

The fear that your project won’t work, the fear that you’ve made the wrong choice in choosing to follow a different path, the fear that it’s all going to go wrong. Those fears are all most pronounced before you start, at the beginning they seem overwhelming, but over time you learn that that’s all they […]

Travelling home from Glasgow yesterday my train got cancelled part way due to staff shortages. I got told to get off the train and there would be buses waiting for the rest of the journey. But lo and behold I get off the train and there are no buses waiting… So I stood around being […]

I’ve just finished reading Coraline by Neil Gaiman which was an excellent read, but what was possibly even better was his introduction at the beginning. He talks about his writing of the book and said two things which absolutely astonished me. The first was that he stopped mid-sentence near the beginning of writing because life got […]