Looking Forward to 2020 The New Year is a time to look forward to the next phase of our lives. Another calendar cycle begins and the days are getting longer (in the UK at least). It’s a period to make plans and prepare, to take stock and forecast for what… Read More »2020: A year for Exploring more Philosophy
Learning to eat less Sugar the Hard Way I’ve always had a sweet tooth and now it’s come back to bite me. I am suffering for something that (despite my other half’s loving assurance to the contrary) is pretty much all my own fault – a deep filling in one… Read More »On the Evils of Sugar and Feeling Pain
Last Sunday was the first day I got out of the house and went on a run since the birth of my son three months ago; a period of time, which, despite everyone telling me has gone really fast has felt like at least a year. I managed fifteen minutes… Read More »Establishing Goals and Creating a Life Plan
An Extra Day This week just gone by, I felt like I needed an extra day to get everything done. I was toying with the idea and wondered what such a day would be called. I settled on the rather boring name ‘Newday’, and decided it would come after Friday, and could… Read More »Being where you are and Incremental Improvement
The Start of a Young Family Today marked one calendar month since the birth of my firstborn son. It’s been a ride so far, up and down, peaks and troughs, a blur of broken sleep and an overload of chores. The first two weeks were certainly the most challenging –… Read More »Entering Parenthood and a New Mindfulness
One way of fueling your own creativity is to actively seek out and absorb creative content. Nowadays, I have found it is very easy to scroll through social media occasionally interacting with something pretty or eye-catching. This is kind of not enough for me, and so, without venturing past my… Read More »Absorbing the Content of Others to Inspire Creative Sparks
Reductionist Quotes A couple of things have piqued my interest in the self-help industry recently and started me thinking of taking more care with my online content. One is that I have begun using my Twitter account a bit more frequently to promote my various digitally-based activities. Twitter is awash… Read More »Reductionist Quotes, Social Media and the Loneliness Survey
My last post was a reflective one and I’ve been thinking about other formative experiences I have had that set me on the course leading to where I am now. On a personal level, I am also probably seeking to reassure myself that I’ll make at least an ok parent.… Read More »Motivation for doing the Best for Ones Children
On rare occasions whilst driving around the UK, one sees lone people at the roadside, typically near service stations. They are identifiable as hitchhikers by their ragtag appearance, huge backpacks and cardboard placards, on which is usually scrawled a destination so far away as to think unreachable in any reasonable… Read More »My Thoughts on Hitching a Ride