July 14th, 2025
Faris Aranki
Aka: Why I decided not to push my decorators on every single, little detail 🤷🏻♂️ Who doesn’t love a loose door handle? Do you realise quite how much your general mood impacts your decision making? 😡 😊 When you’re in a positive mood 😊, you’re more likely to apply optimistic assessment to every situation and therefore be more of […]
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July 4th, 2025
Paula D. Tozer
Have you ever asked someone how they’re doing and heard them reply, “I’m surviving,” or “I’ve survived another year”? It doesn’t seem like much of a victory to consider yourself as having merely survived your life. Survival is necessary—yes, because we must survive the experience to tell the tale. But is it where we wish […]
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June 1st, 2025
Faris Aranki
Are you doing enough things in life* that bring a smile to your face? [*substance-free I should add] Say cheese 😀 Ever watched an uplifting video of someone else achieving something amazing or read some killer hack on how to achieve more, got totally inspired, made a note that you need to change your life and then […]
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May 29th, 2025
Paula D. Tozer
Dynamic Past Theory in Action There are moments that mark us. Not with ink and needle, but with emotional permanence—etched into memory with the sharpness of a thousand unsaid words. I call them Tattoo Moments. They are the snapshots we carry, willingly or not. The story we tell ourselves over and over. The memory that […]
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May 29th, 2025
Doug Thorpe
“If you give me a lever and a place to stand, I can move the world.” – Archimedes Most of us share a common drive: we want to make a real difference. We want our work to matter, our efforts to count, and our impact to ripple outward in meaningful ways. But here’s the frustrating […]
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May 21st, 2025
Faris Aranki
Opportunity is all around you but do you have the foresight to grab it There’s always a way to promote a little bit more On a scale of 1–10 how entrepreneurial would you say you really are? 🤔 Be honest — especially considering most of us are terrible at judging our own abilities Do you view everyone you meet as […]
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April 21st, 2025
Faris Aranki
Asynchronicity and time alone is killing soft skills; synchronous communication is where real EQ kicks in It’s easy to talk to no-one “You’re a lot less fun in person than you came across in your messages”, said the lady sat opposite me. We were about an hour into a first date and I could feel it was going […]
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March 23rd, 2025
Faris Aranki
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 […]
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March 11th, 2025
Faris Aranki
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; […]
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March 2nd, 2025
Faris Aranki
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 […]
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