Click here to read this on our website instead I just finished a one-day intensive Vipassana meditation session in Madrid. This is my fourth experience with deeper meditation sessions. My first was a four-day walking meditation retreat in Thailand. Then a heroic dose of magic mushrooms in Cape Town. In Argentina, I joined a three-day breathwork course followed by a three-day silent meditation retreat. As always, I am amazed at how important silence is for seeing yourself clearly. We have so...
4 days ago • 8 min read
Click here to read this on our website instead The most important book I have ever read is "Think on These Things" by Jiddu Krishnamurti. At 14 years old, Krishnamurti was discovered by a group called the Theosophical Society. He was groomed for 2 decades to be the head of an organisation called the Order of the Star. But on the day of his ascension, he disbanded them, explaining that truth is a pathless land, and no organisation should coerce people down a path. He then committed his entire...
18 days ago • 2 min read
Before we dive in: Turn your writing into an email list that brings you clients My friend Kevin Hood helps coaches, thought leaders, and educators build marketing systems that actually sound like them. He put together a free guide for building your first (or next) lead magnet. If you're writing online and want more clients, check out the guide below. GRAB THE FREE GUIDE HERE Click here to read this on our website instead It feels crazy to say this, but I just printed the first copy of my...
21 days ago • 3 min read
Click here to read this on our website instead A key part of my writing routine is gulping down an inappropriate amount of English tea (Yorkshire, to be specific). I fill the largest cup I can find, tap away at the keyboard, and swing back to the kitchen as soon as the final sip passes my lips. The timing is perfect—around 30 minutes per brew. And I have been writing a lot over the past two months to finish my book, Magnetic Writing. …Which means my mum’s lovely carpeted staircase is covered...
25 days ago • 5 min read
Click here to read this on our website instead In 2012, Jeff Bezos sat on stage at a fireside chat in front of hundreds of tech executives. He was asked a question about how he built Amazon. He explained: “I very frequently get asked the question, ‘What is going to change in the next 10 years?’ I almost never get the question: ‘What's not going to change in the next 10 years?’” He looked at the audience and continued. "I submit to you that that second question is actually the more important...
28 days ago • 2 min read
Click here to read this on our website instead Last week, 250 people applied to beta-read my first book, Magnetic Writing. It took 16 months to write. To celebrate, I visited a friend in Harrogate, a beautiful town in the green rolling hills of Yorkshire. As I sipped a Guinness in the sweltering sun, my friend asked what I planned next. My head wanted to answer that I would finally spend more time on AI. But my heart spoke first: I am going to write essays and begin my second book. He was...
2 months ago • 7 min read
Click here to read this on our website instead The heat rises to my cheeks as my bags smash to the floor. Everyone in the airport security queue stares at me. “This goddamn bag,” I mumble to myself, picking up the rucksack. It’s 3 weeks ago. I’m about to fly from Vancouver to the UK after 9 months of nomading. The toggle on my bag snapped 4 months before, as I climbed the beautiful peaks of Argentina’s Patagonia. I knew it needed fixing, but in my laziness, I pushed the plastic back together...
3 months ago • 7 min read
Click here to read this on our website instead 3 days ago, I landed back in the sunny ol’ UK after 9 months of full-time travelling. I went to: Paraguay (became a resident) Argentina (Buenos Aires and Bariloche) Brazil (Florianópolis) Miami (to open banks) Toronto (to visit a friend) Vancouver (to give my first live talk) On the tail-end of my trip, I met a lot of entrepreneurs. Understandably, I was asked a lot of questions when I explained I had spent the previous year officially homeless....
3 months ago • 10 min read
Click here to read this on our website instead Last year, I met a friend who gave me a new frame of reality. His name is Dan. We met in Joe Hudson’s cohort, Master Class, which focuses on inner work. On our first call together, Dan told me he was going to take the program as if he had invested $100,000. I, on the other hand, was squeezing the homework in between writing sessions, course building, and client calls. I skipped half the webinars and watched the rest at 2x speed. The cohort still...
3 months ago • 4 min read