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30 Day Blog Thing

Getting Back On The Horse

So here I am again about to cut my eye out with a spoon. Every day I get a little bit more behind and then a little sadder. Sorry, I'll make this quick. I am not crying into my milkshake or anything like that, it is just a kick in the teeth, my teeth and I kicked them in. I am a few days behind with my blog and catching up! I am on this "blog everyday thing" - how stupid is that? I mean how long does it take you to write 750 Words? Hours? Days? A whole morning? About 30 minutes. Oh. So th

What Do You Wish Other People Knew About #Trello?

The best part about Trello is how it is a blank canvas and you can do what you want, it took us a while to appreciate that, so with this post and the workshops we run in our coworking space we are out to help people "find their Trello voice."

I Am So Angry

I am so £ucking angry, except I am not. Let me rephrase that, I am aware of trigger points. No that is not what I mean either. So the above few lines are a bit like my head is sometimes and the impression I give to people, particularly the people who are closest and I have known the longest. Headspace The meditation app on my phone tells me I have enjoyed 508 sessions lasting an average of 22 minutes each since signing up in 2013. Add to this at least another 50 sessions in other apps, Echo

Falling Towards Poland - Part One

It was spring 2004 and yet again I was standing at a urinal in the Hamilton Hall in Liverpool Street Station in London pissing out another 10 rounds of shit beer with a chaser of vodka and Redbull. Everything was too much or not enough, I was more lost than a something in a something. The posters inviting me to consider a career as a Witherspoon Pub manager in the toilet were starting to develop a very unwelcome allure, this would mean I could plug into something and not have to think. You co

World Of Bernie - FAQ's

I got myself into a little bit of very constructive trouble this week. With two clicks on my phone, I was part of two blogging challenges. Day Two of the ProBlogger on is right a FAQ post. You can listen to Darren's podcast instructions here. Being a Freelancer, a 'hired gun, an independent economic agent I don't have a lot of FAQ's like an accountant or VP of Product does. I thought long and hard about these so you had better take notes. 1. Are you on your way Bernie? I am so shit at bein

Take It To The Mat And Pull The Trigger

Sorry to keep you.So there I was dicking around about which pearl of my infinite wisdom to share with you today.Sorry to keep you. I had a lot on, like checking every blog about blogging on the planet to be sure I was doing it right.Then I had to check a page on my website that even I don't look at, so no one like you is going to take a glance.By this time I was so fucking bored with my attitude I was going to set fire to myself as a diversion.Life is urgentOver the last few years as I swam uphi

Zoom Zoom Zoom We're Going To The Moon.....

And we're back in the room It only seems ten minutes since I was last here armed with a keyboard and a stream of not very much to say, I have got the bug again for blogging like demon and it came from a combination of things. 1. I have been posting my Instagram photos into my Day One Journal with an IFTTT recipe, so when I drift in there to write something I am met with a photo and off I go. The 'I am sitting down to create' thing has never, ever, ever, ever worked for me. What does work is st

Why I Don’t Blog Every Day

I just don’t know what to wear! So far I have walked around my room, made some breakfast, read ten things and then played about in a couple of other apps and now I am here. I have just got #Babybernie to superglue me to the table and here we go! Hell’s Teeth Batman All I have to do is write, and even worse this feels like the type of conversation I would be having with myself in 2009 about blogging. I remember little Meet Up’s I would run in London with my mates where we got together to wri

Keep Going: Building Daily Habits & Scrum

Keep Going These days I am beyond the horror, drama, darkness of depression and I have dived fully into never getting there again. As a reader of this blog or my personal weekly email, you will have watched this unfold with both the joy and the crap. Habits and Comfort Zones My “deliberate practice” mega mission is to develop habits that will get me doing what matters. This made me identify the exit out of my real comfort zone. I thought my getting out my comfort zone was running fast, a co

Am I Unemployable?

I thought I was doomed, weird and broken, now I know there are others like me We are the unemployable. There are a lot of us around, and most of us have read the Cluetrain Manifesto. It’s our guide. . I was playing golf with podcasting legend Neville Hobson a few years ago and he proudly said 'I'm unemployable'. I thought, “Neville you drive an Audi, wear jumpers without logos and open doors for ladies - how can you be unemployable?” Then we started to talk about tech, leadership and sales

I think I am ok now.... and other bits

At a quick glance I could seem much more exciting than I really am, the last few weeks have been zooming to Lisbon for the European Coworking conference where I stayed in the Copass Camp with 30 other 'coworkers' from the Copass community. Then back to London where I am part of the team delivering the OuiShare Summit #6 which is split between Echo at London Legacy, 90 Mainyard, Verge Bar Brick Lane, Grub Club and Work Hubs in Euston and tomorrow the final Day is a Bar Camp / conference

Just another 30 day blog challenge… #29

Racing home to pick up #babybernie - I noticed the date today and was thinking how much has changed in the last 12 months. I have been ambling around listening to "Lola's theme" by the Shapeshifters for nearly a decade (hells teeth - that long!) The key line for me is "I'm a different person, turned my World around - da da da daaa" - the first time I ever heard that song was coming into dock on the River Thames on a party boat.I love the song, really love it, but it also twists me. When I heard