It was President Eisenhower who first said “What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.” And this led to the development of the Eisenhower Matrix or Method which is at the core of Steven Covey’s third habit. Putting first things first. When I first started writing this series on Productivity… Read More
In the middle of 2014, somewhat by accident, I ended up developing a morning routine and potentially this was one of the best things I have ever done. I am not sure exactly where I got the idea from that a morning routine was a useful thing to have. It slowly developed. I think it might have… Read More
So this blog post is part of a commitment I have made to myself to start having better habits… One of the habits I want to get into is to be sure of writing at least 500 words a day. Now I sometimes write more than that and I normally write something every day… but… Read More
As the year comes to an end, I thought I would take another look at weight loss, which I last spoke about at the end of last year in a blog post about juicing… Now always seems like a good time to look at our goals for the past year and see how we did… Read More
Billed as one of the greatest movies of all time, until recently I had never seen it. Which is frankly inexcusable conisdering the fact it is almost 100 years old, and I love cinema and the movie business. Anyway you can see below Battleship Potemkin in all it’s glory: Many movies have been influenced by… Read More
It’s rather frightening how fat I have become over the last few years. I am convinced that the scales are lying! So I am not going to add in a start weight loss campaign… Juicing night one …
Just been on George Sepich’s Talk Marketing Now show where I talk on Tuesday evenings at 9pm about Social Media. Anyway there tends to be some fairly long and random conversations on there some of which are fascinating and some of which are not. Tonight I wanted to do a big shout out to Caliban… Read More
I have a vague I think fear of heights… I remember when I was much younger forcing myself to edge my way round some of the columns on the Leaning Tower of Pisa… I dont think you can do it any more… but back in the day you could. In the UK there is this… Read More
My old rather wonderful housemate, Phoebe Gilbert, sent me this joke that I thought was fairly amusing. In a moment of boredom I converted it into a video using Microsofts inbuilt Movie Maker when I was playing with it a few months. I thought I would share it with the rather limited viewers of my… Read More
I just edited this joke to appeal more to those selling products online. Hope you enjoy. A young man married a beautiful woman who had previously divorced 10 husbands. On their wedding night, she told her new husband to “Please be gentle; I’m still a Virgin”. “What?” said the puzzled groom. “How can that be if… Read More