Taking life less seriously.

I was extolling the importance of my job and the necessity to take it seriously to a guest at a dinner a few years ago when the guest I was speaking to started to smirk. I asked what was funny and he asked what was the worst that could happen if I got things wrong. At …

I was feeling the blues, then I met a man with no shoes.

Imagine the scene; a cold winter's morning in Chicago in 1920. The snow is falling as a business man is walking to the train station to board a train for a job interview. Whilst he had dressed as well as he could his coat was several years old and did little to keep the …

Only Books

Only Books

The story I am about to relate happened about seven years ago and is as clear today as when it happened. It was a bright summer's day and I was strolling down a high street doing a little window shopping with my fiancée when we saw a woman walking towards …

Small Steps

"As we become drunkards by so many separate drinks,
so we become saints and authorities and experts
by so many separate acts and hours of work."
William James

Consider where you are in life. Are you the person you wanted to be when you were younger? If you answer …