Monthly Archives: June 2012

Why we need more small towns

Posted on June 30th, 2012

I’ve always been a capitalist. And I’ve often fancied myself as something of a big city sophisticate, though that was probably only ever in my head. As a result, I’ve occasionally rued the fact that I never found a way to live in New York City in my twenties. Certainly with my mindset at the [...]

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Getting out from the rock and the hard place without all the added emotion

Posted on June 27th, 2012

I’ve been thinking lately about how binary I can often be. There are days when despite what I believe about balance, I feel either wildly successful or like a pitiful loser; either ready to trial-run the Comrades Marathon or too flat to pick up the phone, often without allowing myself access to any of the [...]

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Maybe good things come to those who aren’t aggressive jerks

Posted on June 25th, 2012

Much of the language of success is blatantly aggressive, which it seems to me is probably at odds with its whole purpose. Recently, a modified version of the saying good things come to those who wait was shared on my facebook timeline several times over a couple of days, with the last part crossed out and [...]

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Why I don’t have much use for other peoples’ opinions

Posted on June 24th, 2012

I’ve realized lately that adulthood (which I think I may be beginning to achieve at age 42) is a matter of coming full circle, but with a few lessons learned along the way. The realization came while measuring the weight of other peoples’ opinions in a conversation on Friday when I noted with a soaring [...]

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I think we’re missing the point in this self-help lunacy

Posted on June 21st, 2012

I guess I owe you an apology. I realise that I’ve been guilty from time-to-time on this blog of indulging in the intellectually vacant art of self-help advice as if I have something special to say. And I am sincerely sorry about that. This thought came to me today while idly browsing twitter on my [...]

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Everyone else in the entire world is just plain wrong about you

Posted on June 9th, 2012

God it’s easy to trash other peoples’ work. It’s so easy to point out where people could have done better, should have done better; where if it had been left to you, you would have nailed it. That’s what makes art critics so absurdly unique. Their whole raison d’être is the evaluation of work they’ve [...]

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A lesson awesome enough that I blogged about Spanx

Posted on June 8th, 2012

Chances are if you’re a woman, or in a relationship with a woman, you know what Spanx are. But while I know that  they are wildly popular with the fairer sex, from Hollywood actresses to the women in my office, I had never given more than ten seconds worth of thought to them until around [...]

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All my weeks are seven days long

Posted on June 6th, 2012

It amazes me how well some people compartmentalise their lives. Here in the UK, we’ve just had a four day weekend to celebrate Queen Elizabeth II’s Diamond Jubliee, which means the work week is three days long. Today, all around me, people were loving the midweek Monday because it is certainly something of a novelty. [...]

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The challenge of having too many good choices

Posted on June 5th, 2012

I’m in the process of making some really big decisions that will lead me in one or other direction over the next couple of years and being a chronic over-thinker, it means I find the whole thing a lot harder than it should be. There are a couple of things that cause decision making for [...]

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Do you believe in life before death?

Posted on June 4th, 2012

I don’t know how spiritual I am. I don’t know if I’m spiritual at all for that matter. I know that I find there is enough to do on this bank of the River Styx to worry too much about what might come later. But I worry sometimes that I’m not exactly nailing this whole [...]

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