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A Love Letter to the Terrified

June 26, 2011

As you know, I haven’t been writing here for a long time. I’ve been finishing up my photography course and preparing to start a brand new career. I was considering whether I would wrap up the Drama Queen’s Guide blog and move on to a photo blog on my own website. Then I got this [...]

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April 29, 2011

Until one is committed There is hesitancy, the chance to draw back Always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and Creation) There is one elementary truth The ignorance which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: That the moment that one definitely commits ones self Then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help [...]

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Radical Self Love

March 17, 2011

Exactly one year ago today I wrote this post and, although I remember writing it, on a plane on my way home from yet another business trip, it feels like a lifetime ago. My heart reaches out to the girl who wrote it, so terrified to leave behind a life she had outgrown. I was on [...]

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Monday Mantra – Energy Flows Where Attention Goes

February 21, 2011

This is taken from the lovely Christine Kane, whose emails in my inbox always get me off my butt and doing something productive. This one has stuck with me through thick and thin and, whether I’m feeling overwhelmed by how much there is to do and don’t know where to start, or feeling intimidated and [...]

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Saving Your Fuck it Fund

November 4, 2010

One of the reasons I have been able to take this year off to study photography is that I had a big fund of money behind me when I left my job earlier this year. It mostly happened unconsciously, but I had been saving for years, living well below my means. I think, even before [...]

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The Butterfly Effect. How you make a difference

October 27, 2010

I quit my job in April this year and went to Bali to train as a yoga teacher. I was going to be away for a while and I started this blog to keep in touch with all of my friends who were keen to know how my new life was working out for me. [...]

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What’s stopping you leaving your job? Part 3

October 22, 2010

Thinking of leaving your job? Can’t take it any more? I did just that in April and I was getting a lot of questions from people who were considering doing the same, so I decided to make a video blog answering some of them. This is part three of that video. For part one click [...]

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What’s stopping you leaving your job? Part 2

October 15, 2010

Thinking of leaving your job? Can’t take it any more? I did just that in April and I was getting a lot of questions from people who were considering doing the same, so I decided to make a video blog answering some of them. This is part two of that video. If you haven’t seen [...]

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What’s stopping you leaving your job?

October 8, 2010

I’ve been getting a bunch of emails recently from you guys asking me lots of questions about how I left my job. You’ve been asking about how I felt then, how I feel now, and how I built up the courage to go for it. So I decided to record the answers in a video……and [...]

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The Glamour of Business Travel

October 6, 2010

It shouldn’t be a surprise that I finally lost the plot on a plane. I spent so much time on planes that it was more a matter of statistical probability than anything else. Business travel always sounds so glamourous in the interview, but the reality of taking a man older and fatter than your father [...]

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