BLOG How I Beat Depression In 10 Easy Steps (That Only Took Five Years) So to kick off, I have been on my way to writing this next Sunday post for something like six weeks. What got in the way? I stopped taking anti-depressants for the first time in five years, I felt fine but was waiting for some crash. I was a little concerned I'd write to you in a blaze of triumph and then be hiding under the covers hating myself. I also had to think about how to write this post, so I went for a list of what worked for me. Just to be clear this is what is working for me, and
BLOG Find Your Voice, My Plan For The Next 12 Months In this post, I’m going to share with you the next 12 months of my podcast plan for my website, before I am even ready to go. Even just writing that hurts. The next 12 months are about “how to find your voice” something I have been procrastinating on for years. Leading with a “find your voice” topic is hard for me. I always think I should have 'found my voice’ before talking about how you might find yours. But both of those are wrong. Building The Plane All the people I deeply admire and
BLOG This Is The Ultimate Productivity Tip For You (And It's Free) Last week I shared about the one easy thing you can do to make you come alive, and this has been drilling my head all week. What Is The One Thing? The one thing is 'stop complaining'. But it is more than that; it is 'go on a no complaint diet' an idea I picked up in 'The Power Of No' by Claudia and James Altucher. I got this book as soon as it hit the shelves in 2014, I used to say yes to everything, and it was killing me. Since I first had a go at this in 2015, I have come to think it is the
BLOG One Easy Thing You Can Do To Come Alive I've always toyed with the idea of making a T-Shirt with the question 'do you even know you are alive?' But am less angry with the world these days. As I look at the mental health of the world and my mental health I am sure being mad at people is counter productive. For example, the days I am pissed off with #Babybernie are the least constructive of his life. The best days are where I make an effort to ask questions, rather than issue demands, complaints and parking tickets. These are the da
BLOG Never Let Me Go Summer 2oo2 I was sitting in a cafe bolted to the side of a mountain in Greece, I was looking into the darkness of the night sky. I turned to Roy and asked him what the secret of his many years of marriage was. He stirred his cappuccino and replied he got a strong sense early on that Margret was never going to let it fail. This conversation was about 15 years ago, at that time they'd been married about 4o years. At the time I was in halfway between shell-shocked and reflective. My mother h
BLOG This Year Something Was Different I dread this time of year, I was bracing myself to plunge back into a God-forsaken pit of despair and depression and it never arrived. Every day I have woken up and double checked I am in the right life, right family and right blog.
