I’ve just come back from the gym. It’s Sunday, so I didn’t do any weight training today. Instead, I swam 48 laps in the pool. Yesterday I did a strength class and earlier in the week I did weights. I’m three weeks into my membership and I honestly didn’t know that going to the gym…
Month: December 2021
Books that changed me
I believe all books change us. But some books have a very immediate and profound way of changing how we think and see the world. I have read many other people’s ‘top X number of books’ lists. And for each list, there’s a theme or a genre which dictate what can be included and what…
The secret power of reading fiction
Fiction writers are philosophers and dreamers. While most non-fiction writers are people who have discovered something they deem important about the world that they think everyone should know. And then there are the non-fiction writers who author books so they can use them as business cards. They write books that they hope make them sound…
What we want from work
Added up, work will take up a full 14 years of our lives – that’s 14 years of 24/7 work. And during those 14 years our employers and clients expect us to occupy ourselves with whatever they deem important or necessary. And considering the amount of time we’re expected to do work, it stands to…