"Sorry, I've Been So Busy" Otherwise Know As A Polite Way Of Saying, "I Just Don't Consider You Important Enough" Saying we’re too busy for something is the perfect get-out-of-jail free card. It’s often delivered with a pained groan and slump of the shoulders, our body language perfectly telegraphing the ...

I've Dined With The Billionaires And Beggars, Priests and Prostitutes. And the conversations all had one thing in common: Money One of these people was obsessed with losing it. Another chose their profession because of it. An abundance of it caused one individual to lose everything. And I was kindly ...

The Rock Gave Way, Clamping My Foot Like A Steel Bear-trap.  I gasped as my ankle ligaments crunched with the sound of distant thunder and I threw my arms out wide like a drunk on a bouncy castle in an attempt to keep my balance as I desperately tried to ...

I'm A Loser And A Failure, A Quitter And A Dud. And I wouldn’t have it any other way. It would be so painfully boring, so monotonously generic, if I sat here and listed all the things I was wonderful at (and, as you saw in a previous post, this ...

My Dad Called Me A Cupid Stunt A Few Years Ago. At least, I think that’s what he said, he might have got a few of the letters muddled up. I had just boldly announced my intention of running a marathon. He spluttered whilst refilling his wine glass for the ...

Envy Is Like Masturbation. Everyone does it. No-one admits to it. And you don’t want to get caught indulging in it. Envy is something we all experience, whether we like it or not. Envious... Or Just Jealous? It’s easy to confuse envy with jealousy - the two words are often ...

Media seems to go in one direction these days. And it’s generally in the direction of the person who is creating it, as they try to portray a perfect image of themselves. From Robert Cornelius taking the first recorded selfie in 1839 to the launch of MySpace in 2003, followed ...

Why is it so difficult to get started? We know what we want to do, and we have the desire to do it. So why is it such a struggle to take that first step? We are told to ‘dream big’ every day. It’s impossible to scroll through YouTube or ...