I apologise in advance for the ridiculously short blog post you’re about to read.  It is for very good reason though.  Actually – it is for two very good reasons. And the combination of those reasons makes me think of the last part of the quote I used at the start of Chapter 8 of…

I don’t know if you’ve already seen it, but if you haven’t, there’s a great article on a new policy Richard Branson has initiated at Virgin – essentially the company is allowing new fathers a whopping twelve months of paternity leave, on full pay. I know, it sounds too good to be true, doesn’t it?…

This weekend has been a pretty momentous one.  My brother turned forty yesterday.  Forty.  FORTY!  When did that happen?  How did we get here so quickly?  It feels like only yesterday he was sixteen and excited about college and visiting me at University. So today’s blog post is dedicated to my brother Ajay, on his…

Today was a big day at the day job.  I finally completed the project I’ve been working on for the last three months. It’s been a bit of a bumpy ride.  Initially, the scope and scale of the what I needed to achieve scared me, especially given my starting point of zero background and zero…

It’s been a funny little four-day week.  I had a lovely long ‘to-do’ list all lined up.  For starters, I had the whole of the Bank Holiday Monday all to myself – so I was going to power through a course I’ve signed up to. I was also going to push ahead with some book marketing,…

It’s the week after the bank holiday, so those of us at work are probably enjoying a slightly quieter, easier journey in and out, and a slightly less frenetic pace.  On the other hand, we’re also maybe feeling a little bit glum because that’s the last bank holiday until the end of August (sorry folks)….

I went to see a play last night.  Nirbhaya.  It was the most gruelling, painful, heartbreakingly difficult piece of theatre I’ve ever watched.  I’m not going to talk about the play’s main subject matter – that’s for you to look into, if and when you’re ready. But there was a word that came through again,…

I might have mentioned that I had my first little misunderstanding at work last week. I thought one thing, my manager thought another, and the resulting minor collision left me a little metaphorically bruised. It’s been a few days since that little skirmish, and for the first two days I let my fears and insecurities…

It’s been an up and down kind of week.  Some rainy days, both in the metaphorical and literal sense. This week I’ve had a slightly poorly pooch, a very poorly car, a severely bruised bank balance, hot water pipes that have gone on strike and a slight miscommunication at work which left me feeling a…

When I got back into the office after a week and a half away, my team were just finalising the quarterly reporting that I’ve been brought in to assist with. I’d created a workbook that was designed to make our reporting more efficient and more transparent.  We’d tested it and everything was looking good.  But…