BLOG 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
BLOG Personal Scrum Quickstart Guide Greetings, fellow humans! It is I, Emily Breder, returned after a long sabbatical from Bernie's blog to give you the how-to you've been waiting for: how to take the most popular of Agile methods, Scrum, and apply it to your everyday work without a software development team, or even a software project. Bernie and I have been running our daily scrum for a few months now and have been amazed by the jump in productivity we've experienced. Yes, even I, the Original Productivity Nerd have been amazed
BLOG 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 the Rural Hub in Italy at the OuiShare summit, every time I was presenting a project or suggesting something in front of the community - yes in those precious moments when everyone is obligated to at least look like they were lis
BLOG Birthday Blog - Hi, Great To Be Back! Usually I hide when it is my birthday and don't tell anyone. Last year I hid under the big tree in our friends garden in a little village in Poland. I am motivated to write this because the journey from that tree to my birthday this year has been important. (Well important for me anyway). The turning points are best described in trips. The trip to Poland to visit our dear friends enabled me to finally start to reconnect with myself and the deep amazing awe when I met #supercoolwife in Kraków in
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London #FindBritain I found Britain in Argentina #FindBritain - what got me into this when I married Super Cool Wife five years ago. People from Argentina are SO proud of their food – really it is just meat, red wine with the occasional bit of salad. When they asked what do you eat in the UK..... um... At the time I was ‘over-consumed’ with the UK – mainly because I read shit newspapers every day, watched shit TV and drank shit beer in shit pubs. When I married into another culture it was not all plain sailing. Howe
London When Bernie chopped his finger off... (I posted this before a Be2camp event I hosted in July 2010) I had explained it 60 times already by 10 am Tuesday so I thought I would put a quick blog together on the sling and the finger before today’s event.Monday evening I was at a mates place and leant back in my wooden patio chair to declare ‘Oh what a wonderful life!’ and it collapsed on me, that is the chair, not my life. To steady myself I made a grab under the seat and caught the ring finger of my left hand in between the part of the
Money Green with envy... Innocent bystander suggested an examination of the emotion of envy as a clear route to goal setting. I was slightly suspicious of this suggestion at first and realised that my well trained Catholic guilt (there is an Albatross to ones development if ever there was one) automatically dissuaded me from an constructive entertainment of this 'sin' well it might be a 'sin' in heaven but it is an emotion on earth. The other barrier was my own commitment to 'positive thinking' or PMA, nearly all my
