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More party lights …

What do you wish you could do more every day? Picture this – a rustic villa in the Provençal hills, gravel underfoot and a vine covered pergola overhead. Party lights loop between olive trees and above table laid with white linen and wine glasses, flowers and baskets of bread. Cicadas trill. It’s sunset and people […]

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Train all the way!

You’re going on a cross-country trip. Airplane, train, bus, car, or bike? We will be flying from Amsterdam to Budapest in August as that’s a long trip by train but the reverse journey will be the slow and scenic way. Travel then from Budapest to Paris will be done in daytime train trips with two […]

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Lose Yourself

What activities do you lose yourself in? Writing. Always writing. I need to set alarms when I’m writing because I can easily lose all sense of time and place. I use specific music to send me into a deeply focused state and this allows me to get plenty of work done. The only trouble is […]

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This failing life …

How has a failure, or apparent failure, set you up for later success? Over my business, work, and writing careers, I have failed plenty of times. These failures have led me to today, writing a book on the place of apparent failure and feedback in helping us create our best work and by extension our […]

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