Cool Things: 2017 and 2018
A quick summary of 2017 and some things I’m hoping to do in 2018!
I have no ambition.
You know those questions people ask, about what you’d do if money was no object? If you didn’t need a day job to cover living expenses? I’ve never had an …
5 Tips for The 5AM Challenge
Has it really been over a year since I last wrote about getting up early? Well, in that time my overall success at the 5AM Challenge has been spotty. For …
What Right Have I Got To Give Anyone Advice?
I spent a bit of time on Twitter last night with an old colleague who’s moved out of town. Things haven’t gone great form her perspective; her work situation is …
What Are You Curious About?
So. Blog Rebranding #3. I’ve been looking for some sort of direction, a unifying theme, a purpose for this web log for a while now. First attempt: October last year. …
Three Things Rounders Can Teach You About Following Your Passion
I mentioned in my last post that I’d been thinking about the movie Rounders lately. I’ve been thinking about making it as a freelance writer, too. And making it as an author. …
Focusing on Fun
I keep trying to work this into a post about the movie Rounders, because I’ve been taking some inspiration from it lately, but the post comes out not saying what …
How Gina Rinehart and Kim Williams are Giving Us an Opportunity to Grow Some @#$%ing Balls
If you’re Australian, you’ve likely heard about the recent actions of two major media organisations, Fairfax and News Australia, to streamline their businesses. Fairfax has already announced that almost two …
How to Shrink Mount Molehill Back Down
Sometimes it seems easy for other people people to talk about changing life (yours, theirs, somebody else’s) for the better. They don’t see how things go every day for you, …
Five Free Ways To Start Making Fun Now
We live in a cluttered, noisy society. We’re constantly being told that to have fun, we need to invest in an extensive library of gadgets and paraphernalia. Surround sound speakers, …