A Years Long Pull Towards New Orleans For years, I dreamed of going to the New Orleans Jazz Fest—but somehow, it never happened. The eclectic sounds of New Orleans. Jazz, blues, Cajun, Zydeco, and the musical mishmash of the Deep South have been a fixture …
Managing The Whole Human I’ve just returned from the gym. My membership app told me that I’ve been there 187 times in a year. ‘Wow,’ I thought to myself. Then, in my head, I added another one hundred workouts to this number: outdoor running, cycling, …
The Best Laid Plans ‘Stick or quit’ is not my usual conversation with myself. It’s on my mind now, and I’m not sure if it’s my psyche playing with me, introducing the ‘quit’ word to get me going again. Or is it that time? It’s …
What Do You Do? Transitions from full-time work. I finished my last full-time work role a year ago. It was time. I have worked since I was 16 years old, and my last day at work was fifty years and one month after my first …
Positive Mindset My positive mindset powered me to deadlift my body weight for three sets of eight yesterday. So what? It was a significant milestone for me only four months after a serious cycling accident. I was knocked unconscious, and while there was no lasting …
The Last Glass I was travelling back from Sardinia and had a mediocre red wine at the airport. I put the glass down and thought, “That’s it, I’m done.” Since then, it’s been six years, no alcohol. At the time, I didn’t tell anyone. There …
What A Year These last few days, I’ve been contemplating resilience. I visited my physiotherapist yesterday, who commented on my remarkable recovery powers. He’s referring to coming back from my serious accident in April. Today, my iPhone shows me a memory from a year ago, …
Is This As Good As It Gets? That’s the question I asked myself this afternoon. I’m laying low to promote healing following my recent heavy crash. A beautiful, sunny spring afternoon, but a sense of emptiness hanging over me too, a feeling of loss. I …
Faster, stronger, longer for longer. I rebranded my website to focus more clearly on having a longer and healthier life. If you are 50 years old or older, then there is something of interest to you in my blog. Physical exercise, being mindful of mental …
Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes* The next chapter arrived for me last month when I parted ways with my company after 12 years. It wasn’t long after I wrote my last blog post, “Going Through Changes“. I don’t believe in coincidences. I heard someone say that once and adopted …