2016 Review & New Year Resolutions
I feel a bit guilty writing this post. A lot of people are marking down 2016 as the worst year ever. But in my personal bubble, it has been pretty awesome. Maybe my best year ever? It has been a year of focusing. Which is quite out of character. I tend to get bored...
How To Give To Charity Effectively And Efficiently
When I first went to university someone I respected suggested I should start donating to charity from my student loan. Nonsense, obviously I wasn't going to do that. And I think that was the last time anyone I trusted spoke to me about giving to charity. Talking about...
Two Years In – My Blog Earning Report
There is a newer income report out. Read it here: Half-Yearly Blog Income Report, Dec to May 2017 I have a very exciting announcement to make. This blog now makes a full-time income. It makes the same as a graduate working in London. That's crazy! Since the last...
Give Your Body An MOT – My First Ever Health Screening
Do you think it's strange that most people have never had a full medical check-up? It's not something I've every really thought about before. I give my car a yearly MOT, I go to the dentist regularly for a checkup, and I even check my computer for viruses. But I've...
Running My UK Business Without An Accountant
In April 2015 my business partner and I started a new company. That in itself isn't anything special. Whenever a new project starts to make some money I like to create a company for it. But what was special was that we decided to ignore all the common advice and run...
Quit Your Job, Become A Freelancer And Travel The World
Eight months ago my girlfriend (now fiance) quit her corporate job, created a profile on a freelancing website and ran off to travel the world with me. Now she has more offers for contracts than she can handle, is able to work from anywhere in the world and earns over...
Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert T Kiyosaki – Book Review
Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki is probably the most well known 'how to be rich' books ever written. And it's also one that I have been putting off reading for a long time. I hate the branding - "what the rich teach their kids about money that the poor and middle...
One Year On – Exactly How Much Our Bestselling Book Has Made
In mid-August last year we launched our book. We're going to sell thousands, I thought. And because we are self-published we'll be able to keep most of the royalties and be rich! On the surface, those hopes weren't completely absurd. The book was called Expert in a...
How I Started A Consultancy Business
I have gone over to the dark side and done something I never thought I would. I have started my own consultancy business. As someone who is known for being rude about consultants... what a hypocritic. Ok, wait a second, I'm sorry! But let me explain. I'm not being...
Levelling Up In Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
In mid-April 2015 I set a challenge to "get really good at Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu" in one year. I had no idea what "being really good" meant. I didn't even really know what Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu was. But I was a bit full of myself and thought I could just pick a random...
Supercharging My Blog – A New Theme & A New Host
If you're a regular reader of this blog, you may have noticed that it is now looking very different. Over the last few days I have completely redesigned the site. I think the new site looks cleaner, more modern and is much easier for new readers to get straight to the...
Learn Voraciously
A friend recently told me that she thought I was much cleverer than her. Now that is an awkward first sentence to a blog post. In fact, it's the sort of incident that I would normally try and laugh off as quickly as possible. But this time it was so blatantly untrue...
If You Never Start, You’ll Never Succeed
One of my biggest flaws is that I am an eternal optimist. Even if all the evidence points to the opposite, I expect whatever I try will always work out. It is a problem. Whenever I come up with a new idea I start daydreaming about how awesome it is going to be. Then I...
Every Business I Have Started That Failed
I have a had a few successful businesses. I've created a successful sporting goods brand, built and sold a tech startup, and started a popular coffee shop. But those are the odd ones out. I have failed at far more businesses than I have succeeded at. I don't regret...
Be Ready For Anything – Surviving The Turmoil Of Post-Brexit Britain
What is going to happen? It's the middle of the weekend after Britain has just voted to leave the EU and my Facebook feed is full of gnashing of teeth and wailing. A lot of people are scared and worried. Regardless of what our politicians tell us, nobody knows what...
The Digital Renaissance and The Modern Polymath
We live in a world on specialties. "What do you do?" or "what did you study?" is the opening line of thousands of conversations around the world. We love to know what someone does in order to define them. "Oh, you're a mathematician?" And in their heads, they start...
18-Month Blog Earning Report
The blog has now been going 18 months. Mental! I've written over 50 posts, spent countless hours on it and had over 250,000 visitors. What fun. But more excitingly, the blog has started to become a decent income source. At the one-year point, the blog had made a total...
What I Learnt Spending a Year Getting Beaten Up
For the last year, I have been putting myself through a lot of pain. I have had countless black eyes, a broken rib, a broken finger and spent most of the time covered in bruises. I have been suffering from the sort of violence people spend their entire lives trying to...