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Depression

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

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

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

I Got 99 Problems But Depression Ain’t One

Over the holidays we spent a week in Poland with our friends, I was sick for a day when we arrived and sick for a day when we got back. Something happened in Poland, I love that place and I love our friends there dearly. I am wondering if a Polish Priest did a quick exorcism while I was having a plate of Gołąbki in the cafe on the town square. Ever since Poland, I have felt great. As you know my mental health got better and better last year, these past few months I have quantum leapt! For th

Failure + Time. The Inches Are All Around Us

It is scary the inches between thought and action. I mean it has never been a strong point for me but now I have fine tuned how I track things and I am it scares me how often things just miss the ship point. I often talk about how nice the 48 people were who lent their insight to my "Bernie Superpower questionnaire" (inspired by Christina Canters) - the part that I glossed over and has come up from more than one person I have collaborated with is about - my reliability. One sentence stopped m

Death Camps and Doughnuts

I have a few doughnuts on my plate and there was one I was looking at with enthusiasm. Then someone took the jam out of it. Well, of course, they didn’t. I did. I tried something and it did not work and I am a little pissed off. However, the reason I am pissed off is that the Bernie who is writing this would not have laid the ground work to make that thing not work in the first place. Sorry, I am being a bit cryptic here, it is not for shame or legal reasons – I am hoping by talking about t

90 Days of Massive Action #01

I think I am finally there. While we were up on a mountain in Italy for the OuiShare summit a lot of things came together for me. At one point I was chatting and said I am not sure why I came, even more so, I brought #babybernie too and he did not know why I came either. So the headline is that I left full of a calm zest and purpose. What should have been the end of the road again for me turned into one of the best months in my life. I would even dare to say that I woke up after a long slee

"Be the change you want to see"

My big screen on my desk at 90 Main Yard has a cute picture - "Be the change you want to see" - I would like not to be an arsehole - but I am. I’d like to see a world with fewer arseholes in it. For those of you near me I am working on this - NOT being an arsehole that is. It is very tempting to make the picture for this post an actual arsehole, but then I am sure you'd think I am even more of one. Over the last few weeks, I have been drilling my head to find the line between energy with fir

A Sentimental Journey Through Spain and Italy #1

I have not done anything all day. Quite literally I am too excited to move. Tomorrow #Babybernie and I are off to Italy to a magical little place called "The Rural Hub" for the OuiShare Summit #7. Around 70 of us from all over the world will sit around and collectively discuss, decide and vote on what the OuiShare community will focus on for the next six months. I am more in love than ever with the OuiShare community, I missed the OuiShare Fest and was a bit sad. (Mainly sad that it was not

Falling off the toilet.

This became funny when my mate Thom reminded me that Elvis had died on the toilet. I am never sure why toilets and dying are funny. They always make me smile and when used on direct conjunction with each other I laugh out loud. If that does not make you smile hopefully my "Iggy Pop" impression in the photo will. So where was I? I was in the bathroom and then shortly after that I was in the Accident and Emergency Room at our local hospital. I'd been driven there by Sonia and Pete in their amb

Am I Really a Successful Blogger?

This is going somewhere, please stick with me. So doing the working out loud thing is become more solid for me. Posting what ‘one’s blog’ is making is a daring way of making it work and offering something for people to follow and hopefully collaberate and chip in with advice and comments too. I am going to work on a deeper integration with my Mailchimp email tribe this is the place I have been working on the longest and where my longest, but not always my deepest relationships are. It all st

What do you most know about #blogging Bernie?

What do you most know about blogging Bernie? Is a question I am never asked. If I was an industry expert and was 'often' asked that question I'd be able to start this blog by saying 'I am often asked by my clients...' I have to say by this stage of the game it is all about fear, not tech, crafting words, SEO or anything useful and billable. Just fear. Even more than the type of fear a Tory politician experiences when asked to sign an transparency deceleration. Honestly I am quite sure that e