Hard-won wisdom from 42 years on planet Earth — 42 is the answer to life, the universe, and everything, according to Douglas Adams in his book Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy. It is also the critical angle of light reflecting off glass and is also the value of the “Hubble Constant”, a measurement of how quickly objects in the…

Everything you ever wanted to know about Tony Robbins affiliated coaching but were too afraid to ask — Note: This article is also a YouTube video if you want to watch that. That stupid advert kept popping up on Facebook. “Be the best you” or “Super power your life” or whatever it said. It was one of those adverts where someone good looking smiles into the sunshine, dressed…

Oops — A million years to build a flying machine?! Of course someone wrote that. People get stuck in their ways. No one thinks something can be done until it’s done. They believe they understand how the world works and that’s that. Mind closed. Voltaire said, “Every man is a creature of…

One piece of advice to ensure you’re living your values — “Wherever you are struggling is inevitably a programme in your subconscious that does not support that destination you’ve been looking for.” — Dr Bruce Lipton It’s fundamental you understand why you make the choices you make because you live those choices, every day. Wherever you go, there are your choices…

Stop looking for answers and just let go — “When you accept that you may never fully fathom divine knowledge with the human mind, you will be more prepared to experience it.” — Geoff Thompson, ‘The Divine CEO’ What is the meaning of life? Which one have you chosen? There are plenty to pick from and you have to…

We need to talk about making money the right way — There’s a loose collective of entrepreneurs on Twitter who make money online, outside normal paid employment. These people collectively refer to themselves as “Money Twitter”. There are thousands of these accounts, networked together, exchanging ideas about hustling hard and generating cash. I quietly joined their ranks a few years ago…

Have you got all the answers? — Self-help is a dirty word. Or perhaps two dirty words conjoined by a hyphen. Often, it’s spoken about in mocking terms. Self-help even mocks itself. I read self-help books all the time that tell me they’re not self-help. No one wants to be associated with that phrase. It feels snake-oily…

This article is about me, not the state of comedy in general. Actually, it’s a tiny bit about both — At least a thousand people followed me on Medium because they read my viral article ‘I Bought a Year of Tony Robbins Performance Coaching and Here’s What It’s Like’. I didn’t expect it to go viral, but I can understand why it did, it wasn’t my eloquent command of language…

No one rises above their packing — I was in my underwear on my bed doing some Wim Hof breathing, the window was open and a light April breeze cooled my skin, already cold from an icy shower ten minutes before. This smugly meditative moment was shattered by my 5-year-old son screaming in the adjoining room. I…