On the matter of: promises, alarms and self respect.

I have recently been going through a rough patch with my alarm clock and I started realising that it’s not about waking up but about keeping a promise to myself to wake up. Join me as I go down a rabbit hole of my own making where I link my self-respect to my alarm clock, come on you know you want to 😉

As always a CHATGPT Verboseless version is available 😀

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Musings of a wandering mind: One clean cup is all you need.

I do a lot of cleaning, I like cleaning, it’s meditative. I may have a bunch of lazy humans in my house, although I think I might not be doing them any favours to Improve. Nonetheless, cleaning all the time you pick patterns in behaviour and one in particular has fascinated me for a couple of weeks. I only need one cup, so why am I washing seven?

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Musings of a wandering mind: The economy of kindness

I have been pondering around the subject of kindness for weeks now, a good friend of mine has a business based on the concept, and as business thinking goes my mind often wanders into the costs of doing business, especially the hidden ones. Many people believe that kindness costs nothing. But I disagree, kindness has a price, and things with a price are part of economies.

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Musings of a wandering mind: When is an end a failure? Culture seems to have trained us well.

I often check in with an old friend, and we have the most interesting discussions about business and life. One of the most recent conversations led us to the topic of failure and how it is very often culturally seen as a plate of shame with a side of pain.

As always the Chat GPT Version is at the bottom if you want a quick read – I’m verbose 😛

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We are all businesses and everything has a contract…even your pets.

In the current climate of the 2020 COVID-19 Pandemic, in case someone is reading in the future, I’ve been reading a lot of articles on the observations and emotions that people are experiencing. People like you and me are struggling to balance all the different facets of our lives suddenly colliding in this new reality. People feel torn between elements that are normally very much removed from each-other by time and location. I will honestly admit that my life has become a smoothie maker of all of my responsibilities, and guilt doesn’t taste great.

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