I’ve noticed a growing rigidity in myself the past few years. A tendency to want to control and manage my time as efficiently as possible. I think it started when I launched The Weekend University. To get things off the ground, I had to work long hours and ensure almost
I suffer from a rare disease, commonly known as ‘shiny object syndrome’. That is, I very easily think I want something, then I pursue it for a while, only to realise that it’s not for me. This causes me to continuously get off track, and waste precious time that I
I’m a professional procrastinator when it comes to writing. It’s the thing I most want to do, yet I seem to never run out of ideas or inventions to distract myself from it. Whether it’s making myself excessively busy with work, enrolling in a degree, or coming up with ideas
When I was twenty-one, I spent six weeks backpacking in South America. The first part of the trip involved volunteering in a village in the Amazon rainforest to help improve the local water supply. Our group’s task was to build toilets (from scratch) which involved a lot of basic, and
When COVID-19 struck, it became a very real possibility that the business I’ve spent the past three years building might not survive. The Weekend University is an events company that revolves around bringing large groups of people together for a monthly psychology lecture series. Businesses that depend upon bringing large
When I was nineteen, I stumbled across a blog post that changed my life. This was my thirteenth year with type one diabetes, and up until this point, managing it had been a struggle. I exercised regularly, ate all the ‘right’ foods, and carefully followed the guidelines I had been
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