Heroin

Hi ,I've never tried heroin.I don't think I ever will - but there's a part of me that would like to know what all the fuss is about.I once had Oramorph (oral morphine) before being rushed into an emergency appendectomy - and that was pretty amazing.(...

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Aug 14, 2026
The joys of investing in yourself - in the kitchen.

Hi , Imagine you were going to eat out with a few friends in London but, instead, you decide to go to someone's house and cook instead. Rather than split bottle of wine and buy a main + pudding for £25-£45 you only spend max £10 per person on the din...

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Aug 07, 2026
I'm back. And I've been thinking...

Hi , did you miss me?I've been on holiday, and here's something I wrote in Canada but wasn't able to send due to lacking signal.You should read it because I'm confident you've got a brain tab open full of fantasies of things that cannot be.I'll expla...

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Jul 31, 2026
Wide awake at 3am?

Hi friend, Hope you're enjoying the heat. Quick one from me. We've all had those nights where you find yourself wide awake at 3am with all your worries laid out in front of you. A constant, frantic, voice looping round projecting all your fears, argu...

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Jun 26, 2026
Not evolved for reflection

Hi, A quick thing that I've heard recently and ties into the constant quote that recurs in my mind: "We are beautifully evolved for a world we no longer live in.'Think about 99.99% of our evolution. How often would we ever have seen what we looked li...

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Jun 19, 2026
Feeling lucky?

Hi ,In the presentation I gave this week: What a Traumatic Brain Injury Taught Me About Performance - I told the story of Bill Morgan. In 1998, this Ozzy truck driver had an allergic reaction to his medication which caused his body to shut down. He d...

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Jun 12, 2026
Trust

Hey you,Had a call with a client recently and just thought this chain of thought would be helpful, as I think it's often unwritten.To make friends you have to vulnerable.Without vulnerability, you only show the trivial and superficial to others, whic...

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Jun 05, 2026
The Good Ol' Days

Hi friend, Three quick stories for you to mull over on this glorious sunny weekend. Remember that, one day, you'll look back on right now and say: "Those were the good ol' days"But right now IS the past to your future self. In other words.The good ol...

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May 29, 2026
In person?

Hi Friend, I'm leading an evening workshop in Clapham Junction on June 9 and thought you might be interested in coming to it. The title is: What a Brain Injury Taught Me About Performance: 6 Lessons to Help You Truly Live. Here's the thing: This isn'...

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May 22, 2026
Go first.

Hey , We can all feel lonely because we don't have any one around us in our day.But most of our loneliness starts from a place before that.Isolation is not about being on your own physically - it's about a lack of true, deep connections between you a...

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May 15, 2026