My fiancée works on the front line, she rotates through Emergency Units (mostly Covid), Dedicated Covid Wards, and High Care (also dedicated to Covid these days). People are sick. I hear firsthand about young, relatively healthy people who are dying.…
Category: Purpose
My Year of Reading in Review for 2020 – by Mark Doolan
I got some good reading in this year. I wanted to clock 40 books as a goal but didn’t quite get there. Thirty five is pretty close and it is more about the journey of growth than simply ticking off…
The 5 Love Dissuasions – How acts of love are unknowingly rejected
I recently read the 5 Love Languages. It is a powerful read and I encourage anyone looking to enhance their intimate relationships to add it to their reading list. But I feel it is incomplete. As is my intention, I…
Five glorious mindsets to adopt in 2020
As we embrace the new year, it is an opportunity to re-frame our thinking and to challenge the hidden scripts we live by. Become “overly optimistic” – Mr Money Mustache is a pragmatist, I think I default to the same…
Mental Models for MMM’s Outrageous Optimism Argument
I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened. Mark Twain As a naturally pragmatic person, I typically adopt Edward de Bono’s Black Thinking Hat, immediately spotting and highlighting the difficulties…
Time to Simplify your life? – Some practical ideas
I am compulsively productive. I always need to be doing or rather achieving something, I even have to schedule in unstructured decompression time. I have recently started what is potentially the most challenging role of my career and definitely the…
The Alcohol Fallacy – The Time Debt that Charges Interest, Lots of Interest
Last Sunday was a write-off. I had a headache after a night of disrupted sleep. I was grumpy. To think, this was so so so many Saturdays or Sundays (and honestly more week-days than I’d like to admit) feeling like…
Project FIRE 40 – Pursue Early Retirement – without the Mental Sacrifice – using Happiness Principles
In Project FIRE 40 – The second step in my plan is defining my principles/criteria to evaluate decisions. Money and our brains have a funny relationship. Our money behaviour is different to our rational choices I’d love my money decisions…
A new type of rich – Q&A with Dylan Murray – From Insurance Broker to Life Coach
“The New Rich (NR) are those who abandon the deferred-life plan and create luxury lifestyles in the present using the currency of the New Rich: time and mobility.” – Tim Ferriss I am fascinated by people who take the Third…
The 3Rs when it’s getting too much – Reflect, Reset & Refocus
I love starting new projects, I hold an ambition that my side hustles will grow to be my thing, but the projects are more than that, they are a way I develop new skills and decompress. They are a positive…