Revisiting the Flywheel – How a Flywheel concept can keep you on the long term road to greatness
Four hundred and forty two days ago I published what has been my most read article so far, From Intentional Business to Intentional Living – Adapting the Flywheel concept to […]
Why I’m OK With Not Losing 20 Pounds (yet) and What I’m Doing Next in the Year of Transformation
So over 12 weeks ago now, I started a 12 week, healthy eating and fitness challenge. It was pretty challenging, a lot of fun and extremely rewarding. Under my excess […]
When Crisis Strikes – How Quickly You Adapt Now Will Benefit You Later
I saw a really great quote from James Clear today. ‘The more you let a single belief define you, the less capable you are of adapting when life challenges you.’ […]
More Ways to get 10,000 Steps in Lock-down – 112,128 steps so far
It’s been 17 days since I challenged myself to do 10,000 steps per day while in lock-down. In New Zealand, lock-down really means lock-down. We are only allowed to leave […]
How to get 10,000 steps in Lock-down
It’s hard enough getting all your steps in every day when life is normal. In a virus lock-down situation it can be really challenging. It’s crazy how little you can […]
6 Months Sugar Free – What Freedom Looks Like
Six months ago I realised with not a small amount of fear and self loathing that I was completely and utterly addicted to sugar. I was the person who always […]
The Luxury of Laziness – Refreshing your Mindset in Challenging Times
There’s no doubt that we are living in challenging times. Routines, small issues and things we take for granted are all disturbed when something like the current Covid-19 pandemic arises. […]
Benefits of the 21 Day Exercise Challenge and What I’m Doing Next
So, the 21 Day Exercise Challenge is over and I have to say, it wasn’t overly challenging. Because I focused on building habits rather than getting buff I made sure […]
In Lean and in Life, start with a work standard
Yesterday, I attended a short webinar by Lean Frontiers and the TWI Institute entitled “An Introduction to Standardized Work and the 5 Levels“. This webinar is free so if you’re […]
Reflections and Humility – Why I share the ups and downs of my self improvement journey so candidly
This morning I received an unexpected but pleasant surprise. A reader who had just come across my work through an online magazine I write for contacted me out of the blue. […]
Intentional Living – What I’ve learned in 30 Days without Sugar
Thirty days went by so fast, I feel like it was all too easy. But it actually wasn’t that easy. It just feels that way now I’m over the worst […]
Intentional Living – When more Grit is what you need
When I was younger I had more of everything you need to face a challenge. More energy, more time and more idealism. Nothing was insurmountable and everything was an exciting […]
Twelve Chairs Lighter – for Minimalism Life
Ages ago, I submitted one of my early blog posts to Minimalism Life in the hopes that they would publish it. Minimalism Life is a collaborative project between The Minimalists, Minimalissimo, and 5 […]
Intentional Living – Exciting challenges make boredom bearable
So, despite whinging about boring super slow progress in my previous post, I am still pretty motivated about what I am trying to achieve in the long term. If you’ve […]
Intentional Living – Progress is really boring
Progress is so boring. Almost three weeks into my latest focus on intentional living I am steadily pushing the flywheel, one microscopic movement at a time. It’s agonisingly slow, not […]
Lean Minimalist – New Site Layout and Lots of Content
We’ve been working hard on arranging all the content on the Lean Minimalist site in a more user friendly way over the last few months and now have a much […]
