This is the third time I have sat down to write this post. I keep delet­ing it. I watched a doc­u­men­tary this week in Swe­den and I can’t put it out of my head. It was about a group of moun­tain climbers attempt­ing to sum­mit the sec­ond high­est moun­tain after Ever­est (K2). I’m not going to ruin the […]

Res­o­lu­tions have a bad rap. We are all sophis­ti­cated and smart enough to know we can­not be fooled. Not again. (If you’ve ever pur­chased a 12-month gym mem­ber­ship, you know what I’m talk­ing about.) We’re wise to our own ways.

Just trust me for a moment and I’ll show you that res­o­lu­tions can actu­ally work. This process can be enjoy­able; it can be pain­less and if you fol­low these sim­ple steps you’ll soon be push­ing your credit card over the counter at another fit­ness centre.

I’ve taken some time this week (and review­ing it every few months) re-evaluating my sense of what I enjoy doing. A lot of things other peo­ple want to do in their lives I have no inter­est in. But here is my list of the  Here are the 62 ideas I’ve had so far. So ah-hem, I’d like to: Learn […]

Would you rather get paid to do noth­ing? Or would you pre­fer to have an impor­tant, chal­leng­ing job? Tim­o­thy Fer­ris (in The 4 Hour Work Week) basi­cally advo­cates the no-work option. What could be bet­ter than doing noth­ing all day and still get­ting paid? Per­son­ally I wouldn’t refuse being paid to laze around the pool of […]

I love talk­ing to peo­ple about their aspi­ra­tions. I really do. But there is a dark side to goals and what we often think of as “moti­va­tion.” I have a lot of goals. Last week I con­fessed that I wanted to be a doc­tor, a pilot, a CEO, and a Sen­a­tor before I die. I admit […]