Category Archives for Inner Dickhead

Koala asleep on a branch

Are We Sleepwalking Through Life?

Quick Summary...In an effort to make my brain dribble out of my ears, I've been thinking a lot about thinking this week.It all started when I went on a rant about Primark and ASDA. I stopped halfway

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Why your projects are always late…

The optimism bias — what it is, and how to beat it so you can finish your book“It’ll take me a week, max, to do the final edit on my book,” I declared.Oh, how I’m laughing, hollowly and bitterly,

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The morning monster cure

Despite all my best intentions, I am truly horrible at getting up early in the morning.​For a few months, I tried to be a 5 am person.There were a few of us in a mentoring group and we decided we wanted

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Don’t rely on your friends

​Guess what? Your friends and family probably won't pull out their wallets for your book.Why should they?I write this with no bitterness – or, at least, I don't feel scratchy about it anymore.A few

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Derek the donkey thinks learning BJJ is hard

The Splendour Of Hard Things

It’s much easier to laze around on the sofa than it is to stand up and do the thing you need to do.Right? I'm extremely talented at lazing around, half-in and half-out of a box of Quality Street.We’re

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the 1%-ers

At the pole studio, we encourage our students to take photos and record videos.We all do the selfie thing; and not just because it's fun to show off a little sometimes to our non-aerial friends, who

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You are not your business

Sometimes, my husband Joe is incredibly insightful – despite the fact he insists he mostly has goldfish swimming around in his head.He pointed something out to me yesterday, and it got me thinking.I

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Illustration of Steven Pressfield by Rob Middleton at EveryoneLovesCartoons.com

Resistance Is Futile, Or, The War Of Art

Stuck in procrastination hell? Feeling the resistance? Read this… One of the best books I’ve read on how to beat resistance and procrastination is The War Of Art by Steven Pressfield.He’s

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This blew my tiny mind

Have you ever read something that, when you think about it later, is obvious – but at the time, it blows your mind?​I've been reading Atomic Habits by James Clear with my book club, Bookaholics

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? we need tiny beetle steps not giant leaps

I've been working on a move on the trapeze for ages. Weeks.I couldn't do it and it was tremendously frustrating – like one of those dreams where you're trying to shout but no sound comes out.Then,

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