Ten Things Miracle of Sound Can Teach You About Making Fun
Making fun. Sounds easy, doesn’t it? Try it for five seconds and you’ll soon realise it ain’t. It involves just as much focus and effort as your day job. How …
How To Show Up Every Day: The 5AM Challenge
Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards. – Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough For Love They say the …
Are You Letting Worry Kill Your Calling?
It’s a big, complex world nowadays. Our attention gets pulled left and right by advice, suggestions, warnings, recommendations, advertisements, threats. When we finally find something to focus on, there’s still …
Beat the Back to Work Blues with These Seven Suggestions
Ahh, the Christmas / New Year break. Holiday time, over-indulgence, parties, families. If nothing else, you’ll likely have a day or two off work that you normally wouldn’t. Me, I …
Sharing the Stars
Sometimes, I think we try a little too hard to make light on New Year’s Eve. One of the down sides of being in Sydney during the night was that …
Make Time For Those You Love This Christmas!
You know, I’ve made the last few weeks into pretty damned good writing weeks. I’ve written and posted a six–part series which helped me not only get into a regular …
How Forza Motorsport 4 Reminded Me to Trust that Things Work Out
A couple of weeks ago, I mentioned the commencement address that Steve Jobs gave at Stamford University back in ’05. One of the three stories he told was how, instead …
What do Starship Troopers and Delivering Happiness Have in Common?
Seems like nothing, right? I mean, what could a 1958 military science fiction classic have to do with a 2010 corporate memoir? Yet when I read Tony Hsieh’s examination of …
How To Quit Something Without Quitting It
Quit. It’s short, heavy word, isn’t it? A sharp word for a sharp thing. Sever your ties with a Big Thing in your life. A job. A mortgage. Give up. Walk away. Run. …
Links of the Week: April 8th-14th, 2011
Before I chuck myself in the shower and get psyched up for the Halo: Reach party I’m throwing for some friends on Xbox Live in half an hour (don’t worry, …