I am too far gone, it is true. It is true, because when you have drunk deeply from the cup of life it is difficult to ever get back. When you have cut the rope, and the ship has sailed, there’s no point in saying ‘ oh, hang on a minute, maybe I should turn the ship …
I found it hard to muster any enthusiasm for the royal wedding. In the morning I went to meet a friend (Paul Janka, as it happens) over in Highgate. When I came back into central London at about 12-ish the streets were deserted, save for the outsides of a few bars and cafes where crowds …
What to do when everyone’s against you? There are times when I feel like this, certainly. I can go along for a few weeks with everything being fine and dandy, getting on great with the world. And then all of a sudden, for some inexplicable reason, everything seems to go to shit. I get haters …
Today’s extract from my forthcoming book about happiness explains the exact technique that I used when I was at a crossroads in my life and I decided I needed a new method to work out exactly what I wanted and where I was going. I’m keen to know what you think about this, so please do …
What follows is an extract from the new book I’m working on about happiness. In this section, I discuss how to go about finding out what your true passion is, and what you should pursue to inject meaning into your life. ****** In a way I was lucky—I always knew that writing was …
The activity that has changed my life more than any other in the last few years is undoubtedly listening to podcasts. The podcast has of course come of age in that time: now a great many people put them out and standards are very high. And sticking in the headphones for an hour or so …
A quick tip for today about how to take in self-development advice most efficiently. If you’re anything like me you’re probably inundated with self-help tips every single day. From morning until night, as soon as I open Twitter, or check my emails, or look at Facebook, I am inundated with advice and techniques, ostensibly to make …
A little ‘trip’ down memory lane today. The following is an extract from the new book I’m working on at the moment about how to achieve happiness. In the incident I describe I’m certainly not happy . . . but it was one of the stranger occurrences of my younger, more dissolute life, in my party …
If there’s one thing I’ve learned in the last decade it’s that you can’t afford not to be a rebel. The days of quiet conformity are done. I’m sorry if you’re a quiet, conformist type. Maybe I was at one stage too. But not anymore. What changed in the last decade? A lot, but let’s focus on …
You haven’t got time for resentment. You haven’t got time for friction. You haven’t got time for beefs. You haven’t got time for any of this stuff. Are you crazy? If you have got time for those things, or think you have, then you really need to have a look at your priorities. Time, you …
