Work-life balance
One thing I’ve been considering lately is whether I should increase my work hours or not. The concept of work-life balance is popular among employees, but it’s quite a different thing when you are self-employed and have to choose how much and what kind of work to take - as it’s easy to do too much and then end up burnt-out.
Digital nomads
It is on days like today that I would like to be a digital nomad, to continue enjoying this streak of clear, sunny weather we are having...but instead we had to come back to go to work in our physical locations.
Not that being a digital nomad isn't without its disadvantages…
Incremental improvements
Another thing we saw on ‘A new life in the sun - Where are they now’ is how some of the more entrepreneurial people were able to expand their businesses by taking on more projects as their initial idea succeeded - for example, a couple invested the money they earned with their restaurant by buying a condo to renovate it and rent it.
Random thoughts on owning a business
We watched a few episodes of ‘A new place in the sun - Where are they now’ while in the UK, resting on the couch after a day of walking on the Dales Way. I like this show as we too have a dream of having a place of our own at some point, somewhere more rural than where we live and have grown up in - and to have some sort of passive (as well as active) income from it.
Dales Way completed
It’s a strange feeling - for the last few days our routine has been to wake up, walk and find spots to take a break and eat something while going to the next step of the journey, which we found to be rather freeing: the task was clear, the reward immediate, the end in sight - not something that happens very often in regular life.
[Crafting] is cumulative
I once heard in a podcast by the Jack Mountain Bushcraft school the above quote - ‘crafting is cumulative’ - meaning that the more you do it, the better you become at it.
Instant gratification mindset
I was thinking yesterday how weird it is that most ads I see in relation to physical training or nutrition are about promising fast results…
‘Everyone is a little weird once you look closely enough’
I had just finished teaching a private session when my student told me this sentence..
‘think about your social media platform as a savings account..’
I read this quote in Jonathan Goodsman’s newsletter and I really like it, as it sums up nicely the way I’m thinking about my social media accounts and this website
The doorstep mile
If you’ve never heard of Alastair Humphreys, check him out. He’s an adventurer that came up with / popularized a number of interesting concepts, and one of my favourite goes by the name of ‘the doorstep mile’ …
Rites of passage
It’s been said by many thinkers of this era that our western society’s lack of proper rites of passage is a great detriment to our personal development, that we need to be challenged in physical ways, to ‘reintroduce the metaphorical tigers’ in our lives - and I very much agree with this
Blogging VS social media
I’ve been enjoying putting my thoughts on my Instagram account, but since I created a website for my coaching business I’ve realized that blogging is a much better avenue for what I am doing