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Are you happy? The perennial question that never fails to ignite a debate. It’s day four of Ramadan and I wonder to myself: does fasting make me happy? Would I be happier eating an ice cream and sipping a cold beverage right now? It depends. The best way I’ve found to frame my thinking hasContinue reading “Will reading this make you happy?”

How is it mid-June already? The year is passing by with change happening faster than I can remember. Not just in my own world, but in the world around us. Just this weekend I was at a concert (heaven forbid) and I spotted a person in the crowd Facetiming her family so they could joinContinue reading “Every man is the sum total of his reactions to experience”

It’s been three weeks since I hit publish on my last ‘start your week smarter’ post. Truth be told, I ran my first marathon and like everyone got caught up in the throws of work as we all do. However, ‘being busy‘ is not an excuse and so fear not, here are some articles to helpContinue reading “Is the work life balance a myth?”

This week brought with it three days off. A bit of time to think, listen to people in coffee shops and read up on where the world is going has provided some renewed gusto to my ‘start your week smarter’ write up. And so here are three articles you need to read this week, plus aContinue reading “Why being wrong is so right”

Just a day late so rather than starting your day smarter, just continue it instead: Believe you can improve Why do people succeed? How do our conscious and subconscious thoughts impact our ability to achieve greatness? This analysis by Carol Dweck identifies two types of mindset: (1) growth and (2) fixed. The question at theContinue reading “Want to be successful? Be obsessed”

Start your week smarter has two changes this week. The first is it’s coming to you on a Monday; thank heavens for bank holidays. The second is that I’ve changed the headline format. I’ll be interested to see if makes a difference in the number of views and comments the post gleans. And so, asContinue reading “You haven’t got time to read this”

Seven days. Thousands of news articles. Here are three that will make me start the coming week smarter: How Facebook and Candy Crush got you hooked I spend a disproportionate amount of time thinking about the internet and what it is doing to us psychologically. Just yesterday I was talking to a group of peopleContinue reading “How Facebook and Candy Crush got you hooked”

I’m embarking on something new and you’re invited. One of the things I want to do before I’m 30 is start every week smarter than the last. I’ve been publishing these to Linkedin and storing them here on my blog so I can look back in years to come. To do this I’m reigniting a former passion of mine –Continue reading “Screenshorts are killing the blog”

It’s been a while since I wrote a new blog post on here. Why? A number of reasons. Travel, work, lovers, friends and family. I wrote reasons there. What I really should have written is excuses. Travel, work, lovers, friends and family are all just excuses. Well enough! I noticed on my Linkedin profile thatContinue reading “Excuses not reasons”

Retweet for fame, please There was a recent study. The #TVTwitter study. It was conducted by @BrainJuicer on behalf of Twitter and the marketing body for commercial TV in the UK, @Thinkboxtv. IT identified two very different states of mind Twitter users are in when they’re watching TV and tweeting. The first is relaxed (lean back) and the second isContinue reading “Geek that was: Maybe you should just leave earlier”