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 […]
Three Stories That Pissed Me Off This Week
A couple of the things that piss me off in the world are manipulation and outright greed. As you know I am a huge fan of tribes, communities and collaborations. Somewhere in a Stephen Covey book about ten years ago I read a line about about being interconnected and interdependent – it was what I […]
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 […]
90 Days of Massive Action #2 (Prequel)
Mandela was pacing the room, he was forced to walk in circles around the small conference table in the middle of the meeting room at 90 Mainyard. Ghandi was drawing on the white board in between a mind map the developers had left and the business canvas the musicians had left, to Mandela’s annoyance Ghandi […]
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 […]
Getting it all in.
As #Babybernie has grown up I have shouted “focus” at him when he was doing things like learning to eat with a fork for the first time or was holding onto the sofa to try and walk. This killer comedy line has come back to bite me in the arse. The arse bite happened at […]
Under Pressure – Childhood to Fatherhood to Fascination
WOW! My spine tingled. I had forgotten this. Two of my favourite things ever (other than you my reader) are Queen and David Bowie. I had the Queen Live Magic! And played it until it broke. Back then we lived in Southampton, went to school on Hayling Island and only person in our road had a […]
It’s All About Me
So that did not work. Well it did. A bit. I am sitting here thinking that everything has added up to this point and I am glad. There are some cuts and bruises but everything is awesome and I am not even part of a team. WARNING: I am writing this at 100 miles an […]