Time. It's the only thing you can't buy. You'll find as you get older, as the work gets higher pressure, there are more demands on it than ever.  Honestly, it doesn't get any easier and you're no less confused. Its just that when the buck stops with you more, you have no choice but to…

Just outside my village there's a very steep little hill, it's an effort to get up there by foot for most. On the bike, it's murderous. I know I'm some sort of form when I can zip up without gasping for air. Right now, I am not in form. So I do it ten times…

Climbing hills by bike is one thing. Getting down again is something different altogether.  The same hill I torture myself to get up, is also the slope where I teach myself to not hold on so tight and get down as fast as I can. Because when you're confident riding a bike at 70kph, there…

I'll be honest, I was never the smoothest operator in my youth when it came to the opposite sex.  There was the girl who said she liked my hoodie. I replied, "Thanks it's from Gap". There was the holiday rep in Magaluf, so pretty she made your eyes bleed, who told me this was her…

One of the easiest ways to see if you, or those around you, have changed is to keep to annual rituals. How we change is rarely sudden, it is so gradual we don't notice it happening right in front of us. Even the big shocks that lead to supposed massive adjustments, in reality they tend…

I remember a dreadful time years ago when my boss resigned and my line manager was no longer a Planning Director, it was the Head of Client Services. Let's be honest. There are two kids of Head Suit. Either the ones on the way to becoming CEO, with real talent and the annoying skill of…

I may have mentioned I can be clumsy. In most cases cases, this isn't very endearing. Not to the date I managed to throw wine over, not to my shins crying out at the bruises gained from walking into things. I'm the proverbial accident waiting to happen.However, it does have it's plus sides. There was…

Nowadays we live in a world with more distractions and less time than any other era. Ever.  Yet doing your best work requires focus. You need to be so lost in the task you're not thinking about it anymore. The flow state takes effort, it takes practice.  The mortal enemies of flow is the smartphone,…

If you take a daily cold shower, you'll heal your muscles at a quicker rate. It naturally reduces inflammation, which is great news for anyone who exercises a lot of course.  You really don't need all those supplements if you exercise hard. Massage the soreness out with a foam roller or the thumbs of someone…

We can all sense belief a mile off. We can detect the opposite just as easily. We often don't know we're doing it, yet it's governs so much of how well we do. When people meet you, they don't respond to what you're saying, they're judging you on how you say it. Yet how many…