Four months ago, almost to the day, I took a long, hard look at my lifestyle, told myself “caffeine is nasty stuff“, and stopped drinking tea and coffee completely. A couple of weeks later, I was over the awful withdrawal symptoms, and could safely declare I was caffeine free.
Since then, I’ve had a few people [...]
Category Archives: Lifestyle
Caffeine addiction update
24 February 2010 – 6:50 pm
Leading from the bottom
19 February 2010 – 3:00 pm
I used to think that in order to be a leader in an organisation, you had to be in senior management. My reasoning was: you have to have authority to lead, and that only comes with being a manager.
I was wrong. In fact, it’s perfectly possible to be a leader no matter what your rank is in an organisation. You can even [...]
Why I blog
4 February 2010 – 5:27 pm
The other day, somebody asked me why I bother blogging. “It seems like an awful lot of work for little or no reward,” he said. “So why do it?”
He was assuming I have a choice!
Why aren’t we teleworking more?
12 January 2010 – 9:26 pm
A few days ago I exchanged tweets with Emily Cagle about how more companies are beginning to embrace teleworking. Our brief chat made me realise more than 60% of the work I do for my biggest clients could be done remotely, yet I still feel obliged/compelled to go into the office.
It goes without saying that [...]
The formula for happiness
8 January 2010 – 9:30 pm
We all know psychologists have come up with a formula for happiness:
Pleasure + Engagement + Meaning = Happiness
Nice and simple, isn’t it? Assuming it’s correct, of course. Personally, I don’t feel it’s quite complete.
The day I took travel advice from a cat
5 January 2010 – 11:31 am
I woke this morning to what looked like 3-4 inches of snow. Where I live, in West Lancashire, this is very rare. We hardly ever get snow, and when we do, it usually causes chaos as we’re all so unprepared for it.
Don’t make decisions when you’re down
4 January 2010 – 9:40 pm
One of my biggest failings is a tendency to make decisions when I’m feeling down over something. I’m learning to recognise this, and hopefully by writing about it, I’ll learn to prevent it happening in future.
I’m caffeine free!
2 November 2009 – 7:46 pm
I promised to write about my caffeine withdrawal experience after nine days of being caffeine free, but I was pretty busy last week; so here’s the rest of the story, a few days late.
Last Wednesday marked the ninth day since I had my last cup of tea or coffee, and is the recognised length of [...]
Caffeine is nasty stuff
22 October 2009 – 6:10 pm
I had my last cup of coffee on Monday morning, and have since been experiencing a host of unpleasant withdrawal symptoms, including blinding headache, nausea, alternately shivering and sweating, and persistent muscle pain.
It sounds ridiculous, and I never thought I might be addicted to caffeine. Until I tried to give it up.
Too many social networks?
23 September 2009 – 5:54 pm
For the last few years I’ve made a point of deliberately ignoring most of the social networks. I’ve been an active member of flickr for years, and have used Twitter regularly for about a year now, but I haven’t been able to find space in my life for more.
However, a few months ago, I reactivated [...]
