I recently moved back into the Mainyard Studios family and seem to walk around thinking about how I feel now compared to how I felt when I was there before. Coworking got me into shape mentally and professionally, and the mental health thing is enormous. Here are few of the reasons that I’m not so […]

I wrote this My Miracle Morning post back in 2016, it described the routine I’d designed and have kept to non-stop, I’ve been doing this for over seven years now. That post detailed a somewhat stern routine, I still wake up early but I’m much more chilled and productive. Most of the time I wake […]

It is the last day of this round of 12 Week Year, and it has not gone at all to plan. The goals for this round were run 5 miles in 35 minutes, do 25 Pomodoro’s a week, and post to my website. I worked it all out and could not fail and then I […]

Bernie, I want to start a podcast got any tips? I get asked every week about how to start a podcast, I’m not about to start a podcast production business but here is my take. At the end of this post is a list of websites and people I trust to teach you about podcasting, […]

These places are how I get my work done. Somewhere back in 2016, I made a firm choice to commit to only a few places, and this is how I really worked out what to do as a freelancer.  I’d spend so much time looking at different blogs, videos and looking for the silver bullet. […]

Why you need to make your reader the hero of your story and NOT you! Look I’m just so great at this story stuff! You will want to know how great I am, so just read on… DOES NOT make you want to read on. Because it is all about me and does not solve […]

So There I was… I wander into the Mainyard meeting room playing with my phone and hear a cough in the corner. I look up, and Mandela is sitting in a chair in the corner of the room doodling in a notebook. Want to chat? He asks. Er, yes, I have not seen you for […]