At the end of 2019 I wrote a self-assessment piece around my struggles to really zero in on what I wanted at the time. This one blog is by far my most popular, even 12 months on, it still has the highest hit count. If you want to revisit it, you can do so by…
Tag: growth
40. Keep growing
Recently, I started growing a hops plant. Its been something I’ve wanted to do since picking some hops (“some” being alllooootttt of them!) a little while ago. Not really knowing what to do, I had to do some research and source the necessary things, especially the Rhizome. So far things are going well, the recent…
24. The rainbow connection
Rainbows are wonderous things, a meteorological phenomenon, something from the land of unicorns and a place where Irish Leprechauns hide their stash. Strictly speaking rainbows are just light reflecting off water droplets and aren’t a real thing, but they did get me thinking. When did we stop chasing rainbows? Seriously, when did we go from…
23. Growth Spurt
I’ve always been a short arse; I think I missed the days when they were handing out the growth pill or something. For a long time, I thought that I would never succeed because I was too short. I believed, rather foolishly, that only way to truly get somewhere in life was to be tall….
Sandcastles….
“Dad, wanna help me build a sandcastle?” These are the words my five year old called out to me as I wondered out of the water on a recent trip to the beach. In the past I would have declined the offer; and while I cited many different reasons, it was because I didn’t see…