I think you can tell a lot about a person by the decor of their home.How many family photos do they have?What hangs on their walls - fine art or framed jerseys?Do they have a giant TV or a huge bookcase? Or both?It's inevitable, if they are in the home long enough, eventually their personality … Continue reading On their walls →

'No I'm ok' That is a possible response that everyone offering anything should be ready to hear. But the person doing the offering then got upset and tried to shame me into taking one. It's clear they took my rejection personally when the reality couldn't have been further from the truth. My saying no had … Continue reading No I’m ok →

The resting bored face. It may not be intentional. It may be automatic. But it deters me from speaking and makes me feel like returning the spotlight to the other person is the only way to feel comfortable again.

Merry Christmas everyone!! I hope you have an amazing day with your personal perfect amount of relaxation and fun.

There's only so much you can invite someone out of their shell. After a reasonable effort you have to defer to free will because let's face it there is a real danger you will scare them back into their shell.

Sport has an incredible capacity to bring a community together. Now it's fickle. It relies on the team winning. But if they are, consistently, it creates this amazing sense of momentum. This tangible positivity that unites strangers in a common goal. I think the key element is hope. The die hard fans will attend the … Continue reading Sport hope momentum →

It's interesting to see people who are happy with their romantic relationship flirting with 'not their partner'. To be clear, I'm not talking about the adulterers of the world. The segment of the population I'm focusing on would never cheat but still step onto that slippery slope. They don't want to leave their partner, they … Continue reading Not their partner →

In the deluxe CD pack of 'Now that's what I call the 80's' it was not an even spread years wise. Some years featured more than others. Far from 10% of each year, visually speaking it was actually more like a bell curve. With the years that featured the most being the middle years of … Continue reading Best of 80’s →

I always assumed that to do the difficult but beneficial task you had to force, coerce and bully yourself into doing it. Turns out that's just one option. It's not a do or don't scenario. There is a spectrum and on the other end is being aware of self sabotage and gently guiding yourself towards … Continue reading Quietly nudging →

Gaston put down his tools, sighed loudly, and flumped into a chair. Boromir kept hammering away. 'Ugh I don't want to work' Gaston moaned loudly. 'Yeah it's been a long ole week' Boromir replied keeping his eyes on his workbench. Gaston perked up, struck by inspiration, and asked: 'Hey Boromir, wanna go for a Boro-beer?' … Continue reading Productivity protected →