You can shove your fate and serendipity, here’s to making your own sh1t happen and being vulnerable along the way Aim to fail and be vulnerable, its where the good stuff will come “Why do you keep writing about your failed love life and all those other bad things on social media 💔?” said my friend as […]

Mmmmm…oh hang on a minute… I didn’t think it’d be like this: 45, growing a successful business, fit enough to run as fast as I did 20 years ago, about to buy my dream central London flat but single and not going anywhere fast in the world of romantic relationships. It’s not for want of trying; […]

Ah shucks, I liked this one – not every experiment works out How much do you experiment in life? 🔬 I bet it’s probably not enough; the thing is experimentation is where all the good stuff comes from. 🤓 Because as humans, the lessons we seem to absorb the most are the ones we learn ourselves (this was […]

A lively group “We’re running a sweepstake in the office about how long it’ll be before you make it onto LinkedIn Lunatics” So, said a friend of mine a year ago. At the time I didn’t know what LinkedIn Lunatics was but now I very much do 😔 What is LinkedIn Lunatics? For those who don’t know it’s […]

Don’t make eye contact 👀 Would you approach a stranger in a bar? 🍹 How about talking to a random person on a train? 🚉 If just the thought of doing either of these makes you anxious 🫣 then you may be surprised at what I write next: Elevators are the perfect place to meet new people Yep, I said it! How do […]

As the new year dawned, I noticed an older woman at my gym. She appeared to be in her late 60s—slightly overweight, with a distended abdomen, shuffling as she moved. Yet, she had made a bold choice: she secured the services of a personal trainer, a young university student, to guide her. That in itself […]

And another good one gets away 😞 A while back I wrote a blog all about “What I’ve learnt from my business life that also applies to my dating life” ♥️. I followed it up 6 months later with a blog explaining why I was giving up on dating apps 💔. Both blogs turned out to be very […]

Part 3 Willingness: The Ultimate Force of Creation Willingness is the most powerful force in the cosmos—a primal energy that ignites action, fuels connection, and drives creation. Willingness is the impetus that precedes action. Without willingness, engagement ceases, and the potential to participate, care, share, teach, or learn fades. It is the foundation for building […]

THE THOUSAND POST SPRINT — One person’s extreme challenge to test the power of connections on social media [Part 2 of 2] You can’t please everybody Last December I undertook a gargantuan social media challenge partly to learn more about human behaviours and the algorithm that sits behind LinkedIn and partly because I was bored; in this second […]

Introduction We live by the meaning we assign to things. Love, truth, freedom—these are words we believe we understand, concepts we hold close, often without questioning the foundation upon which they stand. But what happens when we do? This series, “Meaning: A Divergent Perspective,” is an invitation to step beyond the familiar, to examine the […]