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What if This is a Dream? [Why My Dad’s Answer Changed My Life]

life is a dream

I was seven years old when I said something that my Dad says has stayed in his memory for life, something he stills remembers word for word like it was yesterday. I remember it vividly too. I was sitting in the back of my Dad’s car, driving to the corner store where we’d stop on…Read More

Some Days I Just Want to Run Away…

“Some days I just want to run away, man…” I thought for some time before responding, mainly because what came into my head wasn’t an immediate response but strangely thoughts of how I would have responded some 13 or so years ago, or indeed how most would expect someone to respond. So instead of answering…Read More

The Moment My Mind Walked Home

bring-your-mind-home

I have just returned from Bali, where I spent five days with my wife on a small holiday. We visited a few Hindu temples but spent much of the time chilling out and taking in the epic views. On the advice of our doctor we didn’t want to do too much because my wife is…Read More

You’ve Changed! – I Know, That’s Life!

you-have-changed

We have all heard disappointment echo out of those words before. As if it were a bad thing to have moved on, to have changed opinion, evolved a new mindset and become interested in the fruits of other trees. We have all been guilty, too. We have all uttered those words in one form or…Read More

Why I Love Early Mornings…

love early mornings

Early mornings have a bad reputation. Everyone wants a lie in. Nobody wants to wake up early. But then that’s modern living, I guess. Early mornings have been tainted by their associated with work and weekdays, when life is a tired rush. And of course, late nights and intoxication don’t agree with early mornings, either. But…Read More

The Funny Thing About Fear

how to overcome fear

Fear is the mind killer, the eradicator of potential and the eraser of personal progress. And if there’s one thing that will stop you embracing life, it’s fear. Fear wants you to stay in your house and lock your door, to avoid smiling at a stranger because he/she could be dangerous, to avoid changing job because you won’t…Read More

What Will You Do with Your Life? Said the Career Officer…

career quote

Fourteen years old, about to take what were called “options” back then – a set of subjects that were supposed to define my future – a career officer asked me what I wanted to do when I left school. But as he asked me this strange, daunting question, a few questions of my own rattled…Read More

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