Everyone has a dream but for me a dream is an unrealised goal and those dreams become a testament to your inaction of the years. You can live in your dreams, millions do that every day, but if you act to achieve your goals then dream becomes reality. Trust me, reality is a much nicer [...]
Lifehack featured David Seah’s Procrastinator’s Clock, the idea is a clock that runs consistently but erratically fast. A neat idea for those perennially late people but I’m not sure it helps the real procrastinators.
Did you have a facial this week after a visit to the tailor who adjusts your shirts? No, maybe you need to visit Be Better Guys and discover the benefits of a good massage or a well cut suit. David Boris and Brian Joyner, the Better Guys we hope to be, dole out sage advice [...]
What can you achieve in four weeks? Wired profiled three men this month who took four weeks, an idea and a turn off the straight road to explore an interesting back street. Josh McHugh reduced his time for the mile. Joshua Green improved his mind. Clive Thompson wanted to be a crack shot. Pick a [...]
One of the hardest tasks you face to develop the South Bank of your life is changing your habits. Many people never know the joy of stretching their boundaries and develop new skills or experiences but you have chosen to meet the challenge. Adrian Savage wrote an insightful piece for Lifehack that challenges you to [...]
Having decided to redevelop the South Bank of your life, you need to finance the work and the door to good finance is a budget, and for me a simple budget is best. To create a simple budget keep all your bills and receipts for a month then sort them into three groups: In the first [...]
Lifehacker’s Retro Roundup pointed me to a great article on creating 12 new habits each year by tackling one every month. John Richardson put into practice the same strategy that I wrote about yesterday [Small Victories], creating small projects that provide you with successes to celebrate while inspiring you to continue the larger more difficult [...]
Record rainfall, a hundred year windstorm and snow forced many of us in the Pacific Northwest to abandon work and stay indoors on too many days this winter. Long power outages leading up to Christmas deprived the television and Internet addicts (guilty as charged) of our daily fix, as we huddled together with family around [...]
