Documenting my personal and professional growth as a 20-something in 2018.
I moved to Southampton over 5 years ago. I’ve been here 2 years longer than I anticipated (and counting) after graduating university. While some people hate the idea of staying in their university town, I’ve got a lot more out of it since starting work, if only for having a car. Recently I have had…Continue Reading “A Tourist In My Own City #46”
An Ode To “Leo” The Clio This evening as I pulled into the gym car park, I spotted a silver Aston Martin with a private number plate and went out of my way to avoid parking in the bay next to it. Throughout my session, I looked around the gym and wondered who had the…Continue Reading “What My Car Says About Me #45”
The subject of personality types came up recently at work which led me to revisit my own supposed traits as an “INTJ”. I first took one of these tests a few years back during a team-building event and I was blown away by the eerie accuracy of the results. Today I want to discuss the problem…Continue Reading “The Problem With Personality Tests And Stereotypes #44”
A Love-Hate Relationship I’m going through a mini-crisis at the moment deliberating whether to pack in the sport I have played for the past 5 years, which is called korfball. Losing love for a sport is nothing new to me. On average, my enthusiasm dwindles about once a season but it’s always come back. I’m…Continue Reading “Losing Love For A Sport – Time For A Break? #43”
Reframing Productivity (Don’t do more. Do less, better stuff. That’s the gist of this post.) Successful people at large and self-help gurus, in particular, are obsessed with becoming more efficient. Why wouldn’t they be when time is all we really have to play with? Articles along the lines of “10 ways to optimise your daily…Continue Reading “Becoming More Efficient: A Thought Experiment #42”
Leaving My Ego At The Door There’s something about collapsing in a heap after 5 press ups, about a metre away from someone curling 35kg dumbbells, that teaches you humility. I often take myself far too seriously but the gym is working wonders for the chip on my shoulder, if not my actual shoulders… I…Continue Reading “Why The Gym Is Teaching Me Humility #41”
A Note of Appreciation As I sit down to write this week’s blog post at the fancy desk in our new flat, I can’t help but feel that everything has turned out rather well. They say that university is the best three years of your life but this past year probably takes the crown for…Continue Reading “How to Fight Complacency by Goal Setting #40”
I hold my hands up. I accept that I have violated the number 1 rule of blogging on the internet: write around a niche. While my site has had a trickle of traffic and one relatively successful post, no one is really reading this – apart from my housemate, girlfriend and potentially her mum. I’m okay…Continue Reading “The Personal Brand Blog vs. Niche Blogging #39”
Dreamers and Doers There’s a great phrase that goes something like this… Most people want to be the noun, without doing the verb. Does that sound like you or someone you know? We are all guilty of this to some extent. You might want to be a writer, yet you aren’t writing. We set goals…Continue Reading “Becoming The Verb: Intention vs Action #38”
Last summer, I had an idea for a business or side-hustle. That idea was building custom-made websites for driving instructors around the country. It was born out of my own painful experience trailing through instructor websites when wanting to learn to drive. Almost all of these sites mimicked the same ugly templates. And many instructors I…Continue Reading “Acquiring Our First Customer For A New Business Venture #37”
