Trust me when I tell you this little secret. Even when I tell you I’ve only earned $998 on my best month here and most months it’s between $300-$600 pending on how much I can be bothered. The truth is I only earn that much because I’m lazy. If I…

Not so long ago I began checking my phone times. You can do it on your iPhone if you search for screen time. My average was 5 hours A DAY. Can you believe it? That’s 35 hours a week, 350 hours every ten weeks, and 1750 hours a year. Unbelievable…

​​If you’re a card-carrying member of the people pleasers club, you can do one of two things: You can continue living your life in denial or do something about it. I strongly advise the latter. Living life putting yourself down so other people can feel good is no life at…

Hitting 40 and seeing your gut hanging loose is your wake-up call — Who wants this? Nobody. Who has this? Nearly everybody. And for the first time in my life, I look overweight. Sure it’s relative and potentially arbitrary but I’ve never caught my reflection and thought, ‘Tom you’re fat’ before. Struggling with weight is normality, the pressure is real to be lean…

If you know what you want you’ll likely get it, but still, feel pain and despair. — All success begins with definiteness of purpose, with a clear picture in your mind of precisely what you want in life. Napoleon Hill Did Napoleon Hill discover the greatest secret to living the good life and code it into one sentence? — Possibly! How many of us drift through life…

I was/used to be a news junkie. Hitting the phone straight away to get my fix. I could easily clock up 4–5 hours a day and most of that Twitter and the news. What happened? I read this article: Why You Should Stop Reading News We spend hours consuming news because we want to be informed. The problem is news doesn't make us informed, just the…fs.blog It confirmed my suspicions. The content I was reading was designed…

What a shitter, that heavy coat. The wet thing that weighs us down. Keeping its wearer ensconced in a sick joke of tired helplessness. Heavier it gets, until even the basics are a death sentence. Paying bills, washing the dishes, all of them a carnival of punch-ups between will and…

For some of us, showing up every day is the only way this gig works. For others, a few quality, well-researched pieces a week is enough. There’s no right or wrong way to do this. It’s whatever works for you. Personally, unless I do something every day I’ll end up…

How much of your life is under control? Or better, what do you put off that would change your life but you don’t ever do it? Maybe it’s writing that book. Cleaning your room. Blogging. To varying degrees, we all have parts of our lives under control, but some of…