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Writing since 2010, I explore and share ideas around personal growth, creativity, design, branding, business, strategy and technology.
In praise of reading books again and again
I love books, but I have a wierd relationship with them. Sometimes I read books properly and sequentially, from start to finish. Half the time however, I read books in bits and pieces, often preferring to read multiple books at the same time, a page here, a paragraph...
The story you tell about yourself is the life you eventually get
The other day, I was listening to a Benjamin Hardy webinar, and he said something that really stuck with me since. He outlined a couple of things that influence the trajectory and quality of your life - things like your body, your brain, your environment. But there...
The importance of executing on your ideas
We all know that person. The one full of hot air. The one that talks a whole lot but never executes. They can regale you of tales of their ideas and plans. But nothing ever comes of them. You will most likely find them in the same place in a decade. Still talking...
Put yourself in the position to succeed
Exploring virtuous and vicious cycles Life is marked by cycles. We have day and night chasing each other in perpetuity. We have our Earth revolving around the sun year after year. Our days are marked with the seasons of summer, autumn, winter and spring. A lot of our...
Pay in pain, pay upfront
It is a general principle of life that for all things, there are two sides of the same coin - pleasure and pain. Everything is a delicate dance between these two extremes, good and bad, pleasure and pain, light and dark. And even each extreme contains the seed of its...
3 states of being you must master to win
Or what the Holy Trinity and The E-myth can teach us about being successful A few weeks ago while giving a personal update on my content and blog, I briefly alluded to Michael E Gerber's book 'The E-myth', and how it closely mirrors elements of the personal...
6 things you must do to win the morning
A few weeks ago, I wrote about the incredible freedom of having a routine. In it, I explored how most creatives actually thrive when they have a routine to tame the chaos of life, and unleash their productivity. The path to success lies in putting the right...
Use these 6 questions to become happier, successful and more resilient
“If I had an hour to solve a problem and my life depended on the answer, I would spend the first 55 minutes figuring out the proper questions to ask. For if I knew the proper questions, I could solve the problem in less than 5 minutes.” Albert Einstein Questions are...
Personal Update
Or where I'm at right now and what that means for my content. For the five or so of you who follow my blog, you would have noticed I have not been publishing at my usual pace. I have been coming up against a wall lately, when it comes to the blog. I tend to fall in...
The surprising benefit of being super organized
In my previous post, I wrote about failure, and having the most unproductive week ever. I had an embarrassing fall off my high horse and my routine and suffered for it. But I bounced back. Because the art of success is really about how you respond to failure. There is...
