Like me, you’re probably sick to the back teeth of receiving requests from organisations asking permission to keep mailing you. If GDPR fatigue doesn’t exist I’m inventing it (I see that it does). In the end, it might well be apathy which decimates the size of mailing lists in Europes businesses rather than any deliberate […]
Why Being Busy Damages Productivity
Regular readers will be well aware that I recently got a puppy, and that she is keeping me busy. I missed having a dog, especially when going for walks through the leaves on bright autumn days like today. People look at you strangely when you are walking alone in the woods without a dog. So […]
How To Deal With Reality
My son made me laugh. He was creating his own reality in Minecraft which is, for the uninitiated, a sort of video Lego with knobs on. I was watching him harvest the sugar cane he had grown, and I asked him why he had grown so much. He told me he could cut it down and […]
How To Achieve More Than You Thought You Could
I made a deal with myself which I started regretting almost immediately. Back in May, as the days started to dwindle away I thought about giving myself some sort of task or objective to complete in June. I have often found that setting myself small challenges helps me to achieve things I would otherwise have […]
How To Succeed
Back to school and my children are both beginning an exam year. It seems like only moments ago I was dropping them off in the morning to play in the reception class sandpit and now it’s all coming to some sort of interim conclusion. At times like these its hard to avoid a little anxiety […]
