BLOG Just another 30 day blog challenge... #6 I have pondered exactly how to work out loud and I am not sure what the bloody issue is. It is not as if I have some super sensitive thing with a string of NDA's. I think one thing that 'stops' me - even though it should not is some slim ball knob ringing up to pitch me their product. It is not I am scared of buying it by accident - I learnt my lesson about this type of 'impulsive purchase' a few years ago - it is I will want to say '£u,k off' and put the phone down but I am not really comfort
BLOG Just another 30 day blog challenge... #5 Last night I could not dare to sleep. I knew the best thing to do would be to sleep and then wake up and hope it was all over. So of course I stayed up and felt even more shit this morning. Luckily I had the internet and was able to pass the time watching You Tube videos... I had watched this Ruby Wax video when it came out in 2012 and thought 'how cute' then at the end of 2012 my brain melted and now I have a better understanding of what she is talking about. In this Ruby jokes about if you h
BLOG Just another 30 day blog challenge... #4 Fuck me this has been the worst day for ages. I am declaring a meltdown. In fact I took another dose of anti-depressant this afternoon as I was thinking I had not taken any. Of course I had it is the second thing I do every day. I have been moping around all day, I feel the most angry I have done for ages - I even shouted at #Babybernie this morning - I only shout at #Babybernie when we are practising "Good Morning Vietnam" - so of course I was even more angry at myself and then spent the whole
BLOG Just another 30 day blog challenge... #3 So there I was all full of '30 Day Blog Challenge' hype and suddenly is is 11:39pm and I have not done my words yet!! I have been pleasantly distracted by watching Grubclub.com shoot past £60k on their crowd funding platform and also I am trying to connect with what happened today. But first in an ideal world how do you start your day Bernie? I get up 5:50am Start to write at 6am and then get out the door with #Babybernie by 07:10am the latest and then can get to 90 Mainyard by 08:00am if I a
BLOG Just another 30 day blog challenge... #2 I have had this routine for at least three months now. Get up at 5:30am Drink Apple cyder vinegar (thanks Lou Lou) Shudder Make some Mate (Argentine tea) Write 750 words Shower Then head out the door with #Babybernie Drop him at nursery and then zoom to 90 Mainyard - my East London coworking lair. It is the only routine I have sustained in the last ten years. When I used to have to show up somewhere for a pay packet everyday I had a routine, in fact one of the things I loved was improvi
BLOG Just another 30 day blog challenge... #1 Warning: this is a stream of conciousness and you'll either think I am a total dick or a brave genius #justsaying I could recite blog challenges to you like The Suitcase Entrepreneur or the Copy Blogger one. I have evangelised about them and even inspired a few people to take them and I've even had people email me and say to say thanks I am now blogging all the time and it has done wonders of my confidence and in some cases business. I think one thing that has put me off shouting about 30 day
BLOG Life is what happens when you are making plans Ok, so hands up I am having a a few hours of post traumatic birthday stress. This time ten years ago I was lying facedown on the concrete by the pool at our villa in Ibiza trying to remember what had happened in the last 48 hours. My friends had treated me to a night at Pacha where Roger Sanchez had blow the crowd away with an epic closing finale* of Candi Staton, White Stripes and Eurythmics. I loved it. Even having our car searched by Police added to the potentially epic tale, I'dloveyou to th
BLOG Lunch at the Agora Collective Berlin We got to the Agora Coworking space in Berlin around midday, it was a slow day and the sun was beating down on the backside of the road. I looked at the small archway with a huge gate that made up the entrance, already there was something gooi about this place. The grand collection of bikes inside the gate looked as if a film crew had left in a hurry while making a movie about a 1920′s University. On the right of the gate was a garden with trees that were low enough to hide the rest of the gar
BLOG Head melting, saying no and staying alive. I have just got my breath back, now this. The end of 2012 I had a mental breakdown and felt like I had been in a tied to the underside of a roller coaster at peak time at Disney Land. Being tied to a roller coaster is fine - it is the being in Disney that really horrifies me. I am better now and on a mission of doing less and working to keep my head in the same place as my body. In the last week I have had my most crap few days for ages, it is worth noting that in comparison with most of 2013
BLOG Working Out Loud Part 5 - Approach with purpose (Slight return) The trouble with being a self proclaimed blogger is that you have to blog. I love the idea of blogging, every time I blog something good happens so I am sitting here at 90 Mainyard blogging and / but taking AGES to do it. I am not MAKING myself write this, I am not doing battle with myself or going through some horrific punishment. This is more of a 'if I give up smoking I won't die' type thing - or 'if I go to the gym I will feel happier, healthier and won't be fat and short of breath.' Bl
BLOG Five Start-Ups I LOVE that are Crushing it.... I know there might be bigger, faster, stronger and more hip stuff going on, but for me this is where the fun is. I have seen these guys start, grow, fall over, get back up and - unlike many Start-Up founders - they LISTEN. 1. The Food Assembly - Supported OuishareFest in France and they opened here at 90 Mainyard in the canal side restaurant in our coworking space, they connect food producers with customers and organise a weekly event to pick up your order and meet the people that make your fo
BLOG Working out loud part 4 This picture is a sneek look into our Ouishare 'Clean language and Collaboration' workshop with Judy and Neil. What has this got to do with working out loud? Two key take always for me were around feed back and 'why are we here?' I stress and stress about asking for feedback and giving it. Some of the people I love to work with are great at giving invigorating and constructive feedback. For example Andy Bargey and Steve Trister are great at telling you like it is and leaving you ready to p
