Rejection letters
For a reason I don't quite know, I kept all the rejection emails I received when applying for jobs and graduate schemes after university.
Mindset
How to thrive in any crisis 140 posts
Judgment is separation
Passing comment or opinion on the actions, appearance or words of another person creates distance.
Before you rush back to normal
Life feels like it’s getting back to normal but it might be a trap.
Don’t find time, steal it
The space to create that masterpiece or pen that musical won’t just fly into your calendar.
On doing nothing
Going forward with the wrong thing, the suboptimal allocation of your time or attention, costs more than just doing the wrong thing.
Sticking labels on people
What labels are you carrying around that no longer apply?
The key to heaven and hell
The same key can open the gates of heaven or the gates of hell. To what do we owe the difference in use?
The same thing won’t work again
Methods, blueprints and formula work for science experiments but rarely for commercial success.
Working on my novel
Are you doing the right thing or finding plausible reasons to do the wrong thing?
Architects and bulldozers
It’s far easier to knock something over than it is to build it up.
On phone addiction
In 2021 I'm using my phone more like I did in 2001.
Reasons to be happy
Be happy because you’re lucky to be the person you are, living the life you live, at this moment in time.