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One of the Reasons I Left the Day Job

52 years old and I’m still paddling into waves which are too big for my ability

Amongst the epic rides I did get, there were plenty of...

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Motivation Monday: Disrupting the Salary Trap

At 2am on a freezing February morning, I boarded a National Express coach to Newquay.

All I had was £40 in my pocket, a surfboard and a...

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Pete the Pool Man who changed everything for me

Just a shade after the millennium on a baking June afternoon, I’ve got my feet up, cold beer in hand, watching a yacht anchored in the azure...

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How much money is enough?

I was chatting with my friend Andy recently about how much you need to be happy.

In the end it comes down to your definition of happiness.

For some...

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What are you willing to give up to achieve your dream?

 

Jules and I don’t do Christmas presents, when you get to our time in life there’s not a lot we really need.

Sure, fancy things...

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Too many people have a highway to stress and a dirt road to happiness

Thinking back 18 months, I was so far along that highway…

Life has a funny (make that macabre) way of creeping up on you when you’re...

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The Problem with Plan B

The problem with Plan B is that a lot of people are already living it.

It’s the day job. The ‘safe’ 9-to-5 with the salary at the...

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Making the Dream a Reality

Never give up your dreams, no matter how far audacious and untenable they seem…

I took the photo on the right today, almost 2 years exactly...

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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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“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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