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The only person you have to be better than is the person you were last week, last month, last year.

Standing in a Tyneside night club, feeling as miserable as sin…

I was watching a local hero called Veitch surrounded by admirers, and of...

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50 weeks in a British jail
Snuggled down on our terrace sofa tonight, I posed this one to Joolsy;
 
“Are we living our dream in Spain?”
 
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If the Wright Brothers had waited to build an Airbus, we’d still be walking around flapping our arms…

 

How long have you spent trying to get your online business idea perfect?

A tweak here, a tweak there, I’ll just watch another video on...

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3 Things Not to Do When Starting an Online Business…

Think about this; in order for someone to learn from you (and more importantly, pay you for it), sometimes all you need is experience…

The...

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“You’ll amount to nothing my boy…”

The parting shot from my teacher as I walked out the school doors for the final time at 15.

I’d heard it before, he wasn’t the only one...

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Walk Your Own Path

Ain’t social media grand!

All those gurus and celebrities showing us how amazing and successful they are. Wow!

I’m not a millionaire,...

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The Darkest Hour Is Just Before the Dawn

It was Winter Solstice yesterday; the shortest day and the longest night. To be honest, it was hard to comprehend…

Standing on the jetty...

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The Day I Won the Lottery

I won the lottery.

No really, I did…

Don’t get me wrong, it wasn’t the EuroMillions or anything like that, but it was a good...

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No pressure, no diamonds

I’m in trouble with the boss again.

Last week I got shiny object syndrome and went off chasing ‘a great idea’ down the internet...

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Nothing Grows in the Comfort Zone

Andy reckons I had Stockholm syndrome, that thing when hostages bond with their captors. He said my captor was my comfort zone.

He might just be...

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The Fears are Paper Tigers

I’ve been scared for 10 years…

Truth be known, it’s probably longer.

As my job slowly took its toll on my physical and mental...

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What Lights You Up?

I didn’t actually wake up one day and think “I want to be an entrepreneur”.

In fact I wanted to fly planes for a living. From a...

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