BLOG Why I'm loving Vigo I am in that place again where I don't want to leave but can't wait to get back. It is amazing to come away and not feel like I am escaping life, I have never understood why people work 50 weeks of the year and then blow a months salary or more on two weeks away. A change of scene on a regular basis works really well for me. Last night I posted that Vigo was my new favourite place. Really I think this is the closest I have ever actually got to Spain. So much of my growing up (well growing up i
BLOG So I just had to get a post out! Sitting at a railway station... Well, I am not actually - it is just the song in my head. I have just about managed to stop feeling that my world will fall apart at the end of the next hour. That feeling left a few weeks ago and I am here in Vigo sitting outside a cafe owned by an Argentine who is happy about the win last night but pissed about the way the team are playing overall. I am not into football but the last time I remember the England team getting anywhere in the World Cup Gazza, L
BLOG Top Ten Intern Tips What do you want Maria to leave with? Tomorrow the @90mainyard crew, #supercoolwife and #babybernie say goodbye to Maria, her next stop is Stockholm to hang with the Bassett Hounds and Jon Buscall to do some grown up work. It has been a joy introducing Maria to people here in London and Liverpool, we were lucky that so many good things like Ouishare Events, Echo Event, Mark Shafer and the Pitch Day for National Business Awards with HRH Duke of York happened in the week she was here! As I weep
BLOG Working out loud 4.1 At the end of day "Working out loud day 4" I am in a screaming for an extra few hours. The last thing I need to do tonight before I sleep is send an email to a specific group of people about my blog course. I have been procrastinating on it for a while, well months. Of course writing this blog has made me sharpen up. I when we are #coworking it is easy to share with people face to face all my productivity and focus woes. They have them too. Writing it down an publishing it rapidly eradicate
BLOG Blood and guts. My most open post yet. Money, money, money. Before I get into this blog it is important you don't read it as the "world's smallest violin" or "poor little Bernie" crap things happen, no one made me do anything and yes it all gets too much at quite a few points. Don't get too excited - it does not end well. So around the time twitter hit the Internet I rolled into my local small business advice centre to "start a business." The key here is that I had no fucking idea what I wanted to start, no plan, no history
BLOG Working out loud 4.1 - Steven Pressfield: Overcoming Resistance Part one. Ok so now I am a day behind. I am not feeling so Super Hero. I have like, 10 minutes to writ this post and zoom out the door to get #babybernie. I hardly saw him yesterday and I can't wait to see him! Also what is it with 2 year olds that they HATE getting dressed? The way he screams sometimes makes me feel like a Nazi concentration camp scientist sawing into a live body while calmly taking notes. Yesterdays update did not get posted and now quite conveniently it won't load. (I'll get this l
BLOG A time machine would be great today... Working Out Loud Day Two Yesterday I mentioned (and hoped no-one had noticed) about working out loud. Actually I don't give a rats arse if you read this or not, this is my commitment to myself and putting my balls on the line. There are so many places to start. I really don't want to write and publish this as it is in direct conflict with my HUGE plans yesterday. But it is the truth. Which often hurts. ANYWAY... 1. It is 15:25 here in the UK and I have only just switched on my computer. 'Sensible me' is SCREAMING 'ch
BLOG Working Out Loud Part One I keep starting this post, well I don't. I think about it all the time. I have not sat down and started writing it until now. Actually it is not so much a post rather a "declaration of living" - Which means? It seems that every post I write here can be... "what a crap day" - I am still going to write some more of them, hells teeth it is fun to slit your wrists on line.....;-) Actually it is the release and honesty of sharing my drivel here that is the most rewarding. Some people have just st
BLOG #LBMlive you heard it here last. Just when I had thought all was lost I find myself transfixed at London Bloggers Meet Up. You'll know that this year my head has been moving in 6 different directions this year. In fact large chunks of this year have been the crappest ever for me mentally. Tonight, listening to the room full of people fired me back just at the right moment. I was not even feeling particularly down, I am just burnt out and knackered after a year of feeling particularly down. Around this time last year I was in
BLOG Are we there yet? I have been talking about blogging ALL WEEK and have not written a word. (Warning: this is going to be quick and dirty and probably won't make much sense) ANYWAY Last week I had what is a "break though" session at therapy, I made a connection between tones of stuff, from 9 areas of life that shone a light on blocks and barriers in er, my being. (Did that sound Woody Allen enough?) It is nearly a year since I noticed my head falling apart and went to see the Doctor. The last few weeks I have
Audio Leadership With Simon Sinek: Serving Those Who Serve Others Simon Sinek is on of the few people who consistently "knocks it out the park" for me when it comes to business and how we handle people. I have ranted about "Start with the Why" for a few years and it really hit a note with many people in my tribe, both those who freelance and those who work in big corporations. The conversation is still going which is testament to Sinek's insights. In this interview with Jonathan Fields, Simon compares GE and Costco and the relationship between shareholder va
