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On Brain Pickings, Steinbeck and self-doubt
I’m a huge fan and regular reader of Maria Popova’s weekly email newsletter “Brain Pickings”. To quote Maria, “Brain Pickings has a free...
Jan 4, 20204 min read
Why we will all go back to work today
There have been two occasions in recent weeks on which I’ve woken early and arrived down in the kitchen to discover horror stories all...
Jun 5, 20172 min read
Connection
There’s been some comment on both sides of the Atlantic about the fact that I haven’t yet disconnected from the web, even though I’m on...
Jan 20, 20173 min read
Ready, steady, go!
For many of us, first proper day back at work tomorrow – the party being over. It occurred to me as a jogged through a frosty Dunham...
Jan 2, 20171 min read
Christmas week in The Bunker
I’m a neat freak. This is possibly the quietest week of the working year and an opportunity to spend some time thinking, planning and...
Dec 28, 20162 min read
Working so hard that you forget how to rest
October has established itself as the busiest month in my working calendar (and, it seems, that of many of my friends and clients who run...
Oct 15, 20163 min read
The extra miles
Followers of my social media channels will know that on Thursday I had the privilege of joining Patrick Allen from Henry Schein and small...
Sep 24, 20162 min read
Reality
Reality is what we take to be true. What we take to be true is what we believe. What we believe is based upon our perceptions. What we...
Jul 25, 20161 min read
The Frequency of Disruption
Change isn’t the challenge – the pace of change is the challenge. Disruption used to be recorded in geological eras, by reference to the...
Jul 22, 20162 min read
Month #2 of Paleo completed
On 1st February 2016 I weighed in at 12 st – always a tipping point for CB where the pain of my self-loathing becomes greater than the...
Apr 2, 20162 min read
Which list?
A personal coaching exercise. Take 2 sheets of blank paper and a pen. write a list of the achievements, events and relationships in your...
Mar 19, 20161 min read
The Adventure Life
Today brings digital news of the unexpected death of another friend of a friend. The second in as many weeks. People I didn’t know. Who...
Mar 13, 20162 min read
Anxiety
I don’t know about you but I’ve had enough of alcohol, food, late nights and partying after an exceptional 10 days. After tonight’s...
Jan 3, 20162 min read
Meaningless me
Last week I posed the question “so what next?” and shared my struggles to find an answer. This blog exists for personal catharsis but...
Dec 12, 20154 min read
So what next?
This post is lengthy and extremely self-indulgent. Many is the time that I have recommended a book by Frederic Hudson that changed my...
Dec 6, 20156 min read
Failure, fallibility and burn out
Fail, Fail Again, Fail Better by Pema Chödrön My rating: 5 of 5 stars I arrived home last Friday evening, completely burned out by...
Nov 1, 20153 min read
Extremely Adventurous
Back in the early days of my temporary TV celebrity status (May 2014 to be precise) I was chatting to my business partner Tim Caudrelier...
Sep 26, 20153 min read
Brunt House
My photographs on Facebook will bear witness to the beauty of The Lake District and, in particular from this trip, Grizedale Forest and...
Aug 29, 20151 min read
Parker Palmer on the “examined life”
In his May 10, 2015 Naropa University graduation address, Parker Palmer offered the advice of Socrates, and urged Naropa graduates to...
Aug 22, 20151 min read
Jennifer
When I was about 10 years old my parents bought a budgie. With, of course, the obligatory cage on a tall aluminium stand behind the sofa...
Aug 15, 20155 min read
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