“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 [Read More]

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 [Read More]

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 [Read More]

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 [Read More]

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 [Read More]

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 [Read More]