Tag Archives | personal challenges

A novel way to spend November

By on October 31, 2012 in Personal challenges

Back in December 2011, I wrote a post that detailed my goals for 2012. One of those goals was to participate in this year’s National Novel Writing Month. NaNoWriMo as it’s known for short is an annual event that sees thousands of English writers from around the world attempt to write a 50,000 word novel [...]

Read full story • Comments { 10 }

Around my mind in thirty days

By on June 27, 2012 in Personal challenges

Okay so I went quiet again. Sorry about that. The truth is that I haven’t been writing a lot lately but the good news is that this is about to change very soon. Over the last week or so I’ve been staying with family in Bali and with no wi-fi at the house, I found [...]

Read full story • Comments { 10 }

Fear is temporary, regret is forever (and a great tip for dealing with panic)

By on May 16, 2012 in Lessons learned, Personal challenges, Travel

A few weeks ago I spent three whole days with my feet planted firmly outside of my comfort zone. I endured three nights of fitful sleep, woke up each day feeling anxious and on more than one occasion had to have a serious word with myself. As a result I not only faced and overcame [...]

Read full story • Comments { 19 }

What do you trust yourself enough to do?

By on August 3, 2011 in Lessons learned, Personal challenges

As humans we put our faith in others every single day. Getting on a train, plane or bus, driving on the motorway and stepping out on to a pedestrian crossing are just a few examples of how we put our lives into the hands of others though trust. Most of us probably wouldn’t give it [...]

Read full story • Comments { 14 }

Burn out and goals round-up for June 2011

By on July 6, 2011 in Lessons learned, Personal challenges

This week I burnt out, hit the wall, ran out of steam, had nothing, zero, zilch to give. My plan had been to post this on Sunday 3rd with a video but I chose to give myself a break instead. I say ‘chose to’ but there wasn’t really a decision to be made, the break [...]

Read full story • Comments { 8 }