BLOG Between stimulus and response there is a little bit called choice. Energy is low. Small things are completely energy zapping. Some days it seems like a game. I have long subscribed to the idea from Viktor Frankl that in he space between stimulus and response there is a little bit called choice. Indeed after reading Viktor and Primo Levi when ever I am stuck a tube train I think of how they travelled to the destination that gave them their stories to tell and feel imediatly choose to stop whining to myself. With the "choice" everything could go either way.
BLOG Going to meet Seth Godin Quite honestly I don't really know what is going on right now. I feel like a caterpillar turning into a butterfly via a very painful cocoon. Really 2012 was a very very steep learning curve. It was full of joy in many ways, the life lessons and business lessons I would not change one bit - even the agony will be worth the long term insight. So that is on the way out. Then on the way in is this... I open my email and need to pinch myself, FreeAgent have emailed me my plane tickets to Mesh 2013
BLOG Tell me why I don't like Mondays I have always loved Mondays but now I don't. In fact recently it has been the worse day of the week for me. Which is a pain in the arse. Tell me why I don't like Mondays? Or why don't they like me? As I work through being "the one with depression" if there is a day that I am going to crash it is Monday. It plays out like this. I spend time to plan the week, making an organised list in my beloved asana.com so I am ready to go. Then Monday wake up, walk #babybernie to nursery (which is almost t
BLOG The Dark Art of Toy Hacking - #Sharingeconomy I have recently been exposed to the dark art of Toy Hacking by the dudes at Exploring Senses. I am very uncomfortable with the whole thing, yet I can't wait to have them over for the next children's birthday party I accidentally have to organise. The end product rocks, it is creative and full of imagination but a part of me is just not comfortable with sawing up a teddy bear. I have always been way too sentimental about toys, I wanted to include every toy in everything. I fretted about the leg
Audio Audio Newsletter #01 Click the player to listen now: Other Ways to Listen to the Podcast: Subscribe in iTunes Download the Podcast Sorry to rant but nothing makes me scream more than people who have one chance meeting with someone big and then trade off it forever, (you know "I was in the Sun, Times, BBC, Songs of Praise") that is why this is the last time I’ll mention my podcast with Seth Godin. This is where I should say “listen to the podcast” but that is too obvious. What else is obvious is that we are we
BLOG It is like there is "no signal" getting through to the part of my brain that needs to hear about the positive things. I need to write this first line to actually know where to begin. I have been walking around trying to get started with work for ages and something keeps nagging my head. That thing is this. How yesterday I was completely wiped at the end, I had to stand up on the tube so I did not fall asleep. The day had gone REALLY well, I have so much to look forward to but I was still tired and also had a deep sinking feeling of regret. Yet I had nothing to regret. I was talking to someone at an event and
BLOG Nothing interesting in this email.... (Engaging People News) Listen to the audio version of this newsletter here 4 minutes #TAGtribe View it in your browser. (You can listen to the audio version of this newsletter here) Sorry to rant but nothing makes me scream more than people who have one chance meeting with someone big and then trade off it forever, (you know "I was in the Sun, Times, BBC, Songs of Praise") that is why this is the last time I’ll mention my podcast with Seth Godin. This is where I should say “listen to the podcast
BLOG Up in the air Maybe this is the most hazardous and dangerous adventure I have ever been on. I am leaping off to somewhere that I don't know, if you really questioned me I'd admit I should have done this ages ago. Over the last few weeks it has often occurred to me that I knew something was up this time last year. The thing is life is not BAD it is just stressful and hard to work out. Before my Mum died over ten years ago she was given less than a year to live, as the months passed and her "departure" got
BLOG It's not all rubbish being depressed So a cool thing happened today, I have been really really really struggling for a few days.Therapy on Monday wiped me out.Sunday I felt like someone was mashing my brain even though I spent the whole day relaxing and having fun.Saturday I deliberately unplugged and did nothing, by 5:30pm I was falling asleep standing up and could not talk.Friday, well Friday was so crap I think my brain has deleted it.What was cool today? It started like hell. I pushed on, then spoke to a special mate and they
