I used to be a skinny kid, almost the kind of skinny you see on the telly, in kids who suffer from malnutrition. My parents struggled to feed me and I just wasn’t interested. Fast forward to more recent times, I learnt by myself how eating in excess and doing no exercise can lead to gaining more kilogrammes than I […]
It used to be that if you wanted to have a certain profession, you had to have completed your formal education in that particular field. This still stands if you want to be a surgeon, if you want to be a professor, if you want to be an engineer. However, when it comes to a whole lot of professions, positions, […]
A few days ago I was telling a friend why a job I held over 10 years ago, was the best JOB I ever had. And then I compared it to other jobs I held, jobs where I was unhappy and disappointed, jobs that left me feeling unfulfilled, dissatisfied and robbed of my own time with little to show for. […]
Tools of Titans by Tim Ferriss has become one of my favourite books before even reading 10% of it. Why? While I read some reviews criticising Tim for throwing information over pages without too much thought into organising this book, I find this to be the strength of Tools of Titans. Tools for Titans is a collection of profiles, strategies […]
Chris Guillebeau is one of the bloggers and entrepreneurs I’ve been following for years, mainly thanks to his extensive travels around the world while building his business. When I first heard he was coming to London to speak at the World Escape Day, I spread the word among my friends and booked my ticket Funnier, wittier and wiser than expected, […]
The proliferation of the ‘work-life balance’ concept in the last years has led to the creation of many articles and books in the personal development sphere, providing advice on how this can be achieved. Lately though, entrepreneurs and coaches seeded doubts whether achieving work-life balance is possible, or whether such balance actually exists. Hopping back in time with about 20 […]
