The Bouncer

There’s a great idea for freelancers in Michael Port’s Book Yourself Solid: the Velvet Rope policy. The analogy is that we as freelancers should treat those we do business with like exclusive night clubs treat the people trying to get in. Those people want...

Talk Talk

Clearly, I’ve got plenty to say but I’m keen on only a few of the platforms available to me. I try to avoid negative people and negative conversation, and generally prefer to converse in person or on the phone rather than via a screen or to a machine, whether it’s an...

Feel It Still

In my experience, some pain never truly goes away, so I don’t expect it to. I believe you can reduce its negative effect on your life and happiness, but this only happens when you stare it in the face and deal with it. And it doesn’t matter how long it takes you,...

Olympic

I wanted to try to work at big sporting events partly so that I could understand the world my dad spent so much time in, and loved. It wasn’t necessarily about wanting to follow in his footsteps. It was more about wanting a deeper understanding of who he was. My dad:...

Eight Days A Week

Mrs P and I took our daughters, Shiana and Mischa, to Liverpool recently and we all loved it. We went on the Magical Mystery Tour (highly recommended) and ended up in the Cavern Club. I went to the toilet. There was a bloke working in there, one of those fellas who...