by admin | Dec 21, 2022 | Personal
Failures and disappointments.. I have tried for the last couple of years to really lose weight – I have failed dismally. After two years of trying – doing all the right things, tracking food, walking regularly – something in me snapped and I stopped...
by admin | Jul 27, 2022 | Personal
For the last couple of years I have gone into Low Power Mode for the Tour de France – which is three weeks in July. Essentially I don’t do any training but I still respond to emails a couple of times a week etc. I watch it on TG4 where two fans basically...
by admin | Jun 14, 2021 | Personal
You have probably heard about Naomi Osaka’s withdrawal from the French Open based on her refusal to do press conferences. I think it’s an interesting light on the ever present dichotomy between the needs of the individual and the requirements of the...
by admin | Jan 11, 2021 | Personal
I do love a good podcast and one of my absolute favourites is Gretchen Rubin’s Happier. She does it with her sister – Liz Craft – who also has a great podcast called Happier in Hollywood with her writing partner Sarah Fain. One of their key ideas...
by admin | Mar 3, 2020 | Personal
This year I have been inspired by Gretchen Rubin and her sister Elizabeth Craft to try out a strategy called 20 for 2020. The idea behind this is simple, pick 20 things that you would like to do/work on and commit to doing them for the year. So the 20 I have picked...
by admin | Sep 26, 2018 | Personal
This year I attended a conference about John O Donohue , an Irish philosopher/mystic/poet who died in his early 50s. At that conference a friend of his called Dr Dan Siegel talked about how quantum physics and mysticism were now converging and discovering what they...
