Hey everyone, Two weeks ago, I finished an eight-month long freelancing project.  I was looking forward to this project coming to an end so that I’d have time again for books, for essays, for fiction, but I was ill-prepared, as I often am, for the feelings of anxiety that cropped up in the days after.  […]

Hey everyone, I’m doing something different in 2019. While I’m setting goals (big, audacious, hairy ones), I’m not sharing them publicly.  Why? When Sarah Blakely, self-made billionaire and founder of Spanx, was first launching her product, she didn’t tell anyone about it. Not her family, not her friends, not anyone she wasn’t directly pitching it […]

Hey everyone, My son has recently started telling me that he wants to write books, build two businesses (an online one and an offline one selling products), and have some sort of performance-related element to it as well.  I always say, “Of course. Believe in yourself and keep taking positive actions towards those goals and […]

Hey everyone, I spent the weekend feeling sick and sorry for myself. I’ve caught one of those persistent English colds that sticks itself in your chest and refuses to go away. So, over the weekend I lay on the sofa, watched Netflix, and filled myself up with tea (builder’s, not green).  This morning, however, feeling […]