Bloopers – The Emotional Overdraft Audiobook
Over the past few months, I’ve spent about 30 hours recording The Emotional Overdraft audiobook. Needless to say, I’ve never recorded a book before, and as part of the process, my audiobook editor provided me with a simple handheld clicker. Every time I made a mistake, wanted to rerecord a sentence, or was rudely interrupted, […]
Advice: Five Steps to a Better Life
I often come across nuggets of wisdom, but sometimes the most simple advice is the stuff that sticks. I was reminded this week of an end-of-term letter by Richard Cairns, the head at my old school in Brighton. The advice was around some research from Oxford University on 5 ways to live a better life. […]
Embracing the Dance of ‘Do’ ‘Be’ ‘Do’ Be’ ‘Do’: A Key to Preventing Emotional Overdraft
It’s all too easy to become consumed by the constant cycle of doing. But I loved the brilliant thought from Matt Cooksey that it’s crucial to remember that there is a delicate dance between ‘do’ and ‘be’. This dance, beautifully described as a life lived in the rhythm of ‘do’ ‘be’ ‘do’ ‘be’ ‘do’, maintains […]
Flapping like a plastic bag in the wind
Not long ago I received a somewhat frantic text from a client. ‘I really need to chat’. I jumped on Zoom with him and his second in command, and as soon as you could say ‘audio connected’, he began to rattle off his concerns. ‘Work is slipping!’, he raged, ‘mistakes are being made!’, ‘the team […]
