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LATEST ARTICLES ( 93 )

• The Shortest Day

  

  A long endless tunnel of dark – curtains not ever needing to be drawn, a house blanketed from the inside all day, getting to work lit by the neon of artificial... Read more

  Posted on 12 January 2020 LIFE COACH, SELF EXPRESSION

• Polishing up My Perspective on Poland

  

  Over the past year, I have had the privilege to be involved in a deeply fascinating pan-European project with the objective of thinking about the future of the... Read more

  Posted on 14 December 2019 LIFE COACH, SELF EXPRESSION

• E=mc2

  

  What am I playing at here? Well, I just wanted to make the point that opting for more experiential consumption (e) actually often ends up equalling material... Read more

  Posted on 21 November 2019 LIFE COACH, SELF EXPRESSION

• Stone Age – 5 Star Living with All Mod Cons?

  

  On a recent holiday to Orkney, I had the opportunity to visit many unexpectedly fascinating Neolithic sites. I am not sure I had much of an opinion about this... Read more

  Posted on 20 October 2019 LIFE COACH, SELF EXPRESSION

• Making It Big

  

  How do you view the world and which criteria do you use to determine who is ‘top dog’? If you focus on landmass, then Russia does pretty well; if you look at... Read more

  Posted on 22 September 2019 LIFE COACH, SELF EXPRESSION

• Choice Or No Choice – Which Path to Take to Make All the Difference?

  

  I think we are used to the idea – in fact take it for granted – that we can make choices across many different aspects of our life, going from the routine,... Read more

  Posted on 26 August 2019 LIFE COACH, SELF EXPRESSION

• Older and None the Wiser

  If I mentioned ‘pensions’, it’s likely that your mind will go blank, or you might start thinking about what you will have for lunch/dinner/snack on instead. Read more

  Posted on 27 July 2019 LIFE COACH, SELF EXPRESSION

• Totemic Objects

  

  Things are never just ‘things’, are they?There are some objects that manage to transform daily life into something very different to what was happening before... Read more

  Posted on 22 June 2019 LIFE COACH, SELF EXPRESSION

• Ecuador – on the Equator but a Land of Extremes

  

  In one sense, Ecuador is in the middle – the Equator runs all the way through its centre. However, in terms of what you can find there, it is more likely to be... Read more

  Posted on 29 May 2019 LIFE COACH, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Future Was Present – at the V&A

  

  Was it really? The above is a mangled abbreviation of a quote from sci-fi author William Gibson. The full version (“The future is already here. It’s just not... Read more

  Posted on 23 April 2019 LIFE COACH, SELF EXPRESSION

• Data-rich in the Analogue World – Challenging Grey-tinted Glasses Perspectives o...

  

  It is all too easy to slip into lazy thinking and simplistically assume that pre-internet, Big Data, cookies, mobile phones and so forth, it was like the Dark... Read more

  Posted on 14 March 2019 LIFE COACH, SELF EXPRESSION

• A Day out in London

  

  Though I toil away at a kitchen table in rural suburbia for the majority of my time, every once in a while I head out for a day of adventures in London. Read more

  Posted on 17 February 2019 LIFE COACH, SELF EXPRESSION

• Home from Home

  

  Where do you think the above snap was taken? Don’t look too hard as otherwise you will spoil the fun!I’m hoping that you zoned in on the all-too recognisable... Read more

  Posted on 15 January 2019 LIFE COACH, SELF EXPRESSION

• Eating Less Meat – What Could This Look Like?

  

  At this time of festive overindulgence, perhaps it’s good to think about opting for the opposite – ‘underindulgence’ – in particular the growing momentum... Read more

  Posted on 22 December 2018 LIFE COACH, SELF EXPRESSION

• Get Real!

  

  Though almost one pound in every six is spent online in the UK and despite the fact I have already written a post lauding the internet, I think that engaging... Read more

  Posted on 20 November 2018 LIFE COACH, SELF EXPRESSION

• Bots-tastic!

  

  Over the summer, I had the opportunity to experience the delights of safari activity in Botswana. This is one of those posts where I’ll the photos talk for... Read more

  Posted on 18 October 2018 LIFE COACH, SELF EXPRESSION

• Change in the Financial Sector – Three Observations

  

  Over the past couple of years, I have had the opportunity to dabble in numerous projects for FMCG clients. Recently, however, this pattern has shifted and I hav... Read more

  Posted on 19 September 2018 LIFE COACH, SELF EXPRESSION

• Think Like An Anthropologist

  

  This is the alluring title of a book I recently read. Look at the picture below and you will see that the volume itself is rather attractive: a very satisfyingl... Read more

  Posted on 20 August 2018 LIFE COACH, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Rituals of Dinner – Part II

  

  This is the second in a duo of posts inspired by reading The Rituals of Dinner by Margaret Visser. The first post can be found here. Read more

  Posted on 21 July 2018 LIFE COACH, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Rituals of Dinner – Part I

  

  Table manners – are they dead or alive? Getting better or getting worse over time?If you ponder these questions, then the above book is for you: The Ritual of... Read more

  Posted on 19 June 2018 LIFE COACH, SELF EXPRESSION