It’s already ruining your life, if you can be honest about it — You lie on the couch feeling crappy, having just devoured yet another meal of fast food delivered to your door by UberEats. Of course, you wish they actually delivered to your couch so you didn’t have to get up, but you can’t have everything. You’re watching the news, getting mad…

And that’s why it’s killing it at the box office — 1.3 billion dollars. That’s how much Top Gun: Maverick has made so far, and it’s still going. It’s already passed The Avengers in box office revenue but even more importantly, it’s done that without any showings in China. You heard that right — 1.3 billion dollars without a single ticket…

No phone, no computer. It was a revelation. — I usually take a week off work at the halfway point of each year. Being a project manager I find that if I don’t, I lose my edge and the rest of the year becomes an intolerable trudge. This year I was on the brink of burnout by the time…

Might as well get used to them and have a laugh instead — 1. It will always be like high school Oh, you thought just because you got away from those adolescent assholes at school that things would get better? That’s adorable. Sadly everything that you hated about high school is still present in the corporate world, except now it just has a thin veneer of respectability and professionalism to it. …

How to knock people’s socks off, every time — Consult the Internet — not always a good choice, and it’s likely that you’ll find people fear public speaking more than death. Death. Literally the end of your existence is less terrifying than speaking to a gathering of people. Look, I’m not convinced that’s an accurate figure, but what is…

Try this instead…it could change everything — Self-improvement seems to get a bad wrap here at Medium. It’s clearly a popular niche given some of the publications that have gigantic readerships such as The Ascent, but there’s a group of people on the other end of the spectrum who are not only not interested in it, they…

You’re way more impressionable than you want to admit — Once upon a time I was one of those people who would always get my arm twisted by salespeople, callers and charity sellers at the shops. They’d flash a smile and extend their hand to shake mine, and it was suddenly like I was being pulled against my will to…

There’s a better way to live, and your fulfilment will skyrocket — If there’s one thing that I’ve learned as an adult, it’s that goals are given way too much credit. You’ve gotta have KPIs, you have to set SMART goals, and you have to know what you want out of everything; otherwise, you’ll never get anywhere. Isn’t it funny that such…

Not everything is — or should be, for everyone — There’s a wall at my gym made out of plywood, and it has a bunch of writing on it in black ink. Each entry is the same: a name, then a date underneath, then a “160kg” (350lbs) underneath that. Those entries represent the people who have lifted a 160kg atlas…