5 truths to accept if you want to start testing out your dreams — For years I was stuck in my own head. It was like I wanted to get out, to escape, to do all these things that I dreamt about but I didn’t know how. I wanted to start a business, build consistently and be self-sustaining but I just couldn’t get out…

Two years in, here’s my cheatsheet — Stress will destroy your productivity. It will also do a great job of making life a lot less fun. Stress can savage your writing goals and if you’re writing online after hours whilst still holding down your 9–5, you have to work out a way to manage it. The good…

Sorry to burst the bubble but it aint pretty — Writing online is both exhilerating and soul destroying. I’m telling you that now so you know the realities. Most people think the hard bit is starting, as if pressing publish of your first article is the real obstacle. That’s the easy part. The trouble with writing online is that some…

Don’t waste time as I did — At 22 I didn’t think I could feel any more lost. At 24 I was completely baffled by life and the direction my career was going. I’d get home and binge Netflix, bad food and crappy thoughts because I didn’t know what else to do. Yet at 27, I’m happy…

You’ll be suprised what you can do with just 1 hour a day — 94 views. The stats from my first article were less than desirable. It’s funny because at the time my head felt like it was about to fall off with the pressure of putting my thoughts into the world. When that was met with crickets I realised that I’d been worried…

Nobody is coming to save you. — For 3 years I did nothing about the fact that I was unhappy. I was waiting. Waiting for things to change, for someone to come and help me, for my life to change. Shocker, it didn’t. For those 3 years I had the same conversations with myself over and over…

You can build your thing and hold down a job — Working a 9–5, being a fully fledged adult and trying to keep on top of the mountain of washing that a household accumulates is, well, mission impossible. Add to that article you read about working 5–9 on your side hustle to ‘free’ yourself from the ‘rat-race’, you smile, nice ambition…

A story about how I finally finished my book — In 2017 I started writing my first book. Like most aspiring writers, the prospect of writing my very own book was liberating. It was powerful. It was short-lived. That’s the trouble with aspirations that are considerable, the excitement that you feel in your bones, well you realize that’s only skin…

#2 test in the wild — I’ve been writing online for 2 years. Not long enough to be an ‘old timer’ but enough time say I’ve been around and got a few t-shirts. Recently my learning curve went from slow and steady to climbing Mount Thor (it’s a cliff in Canada, it’s steep). …