January 2010
11 posts
FOMO
I love this. FOMO stands for Fear Of Missing Out. And everyone suffers from it. No matter how cool you think you are.
You know how it is, around the water cooler on Monday morning with a few mates. And someone says “Wow did you see that try on the weekend? Holy shit”. Somewhere, inside your head, a drum starts beating. Louder and louder. You realise it is your heart rate going up. You have no...
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Love vs Discipline
I read an interesting article the other day. Written by Charles Poliquin. The idea was: There is no such thing as discipline. There is only love.
Let me paraphrase for you: A decision is not made due to discipline, it is made out of love. If you choose to sit on the couch and eat a pizza instead of going for a run, you love eating pizza more than you love decimating that flabby stomach. If you...
Brand Management
There is campaign out at the moment for Hahn Super Dry. The idea is that every choice you make impacts your man brand. Good insight, lame creative.
Anyway, I love this idea and it is something that I have thought about for a long time. Every time you step out of the house, your actions reflect your brand. This is not something that is limited to just men. Here are a few funny scenarios I have...
Happiness is just a slash away
For the majority of us, we have one job. One career. This consumes at least 40 hours of our week. Before we travel to and from the office. Before we get ready in the morning and before we wind down at night.
I was standing on Hawks Nest beach the other day waiting for the all clear after the shark alarm had gone off. To pass the time I was chatting to some guy in his Speedo. He was a Dad so I cut...
My most rad idea. Ever.
So after a round of golf yesterday we were sitting in the club house having a beer. And I came up with what is most probably my most rad idea. Ever. A teleporting machine.
The possibilities are endless. The idea first came up as I couldn’t be assed to drive home. So if I had a Teleporter, or ‘Awesomeness Machine’ as I would call it, I could have just zapped home. We then started talking about all...
Eco Dinner Party
I became hooked to this TV series last year called ‘Alter Ego’. It featured Adrian Grenier, the homeboy from Entourage. Awesome show. Quick synopsis: One of his mates is a property developer, Rick Byrd. He bought a house in the hills and plans to develop it into an ‘eco home’. The show follows the progress of the house, ebing built with eco friendly materials and incorporating the latest eco...
Does it get easier?
I have been very lucky. I am 29 and I have not had to go to many funerals. Both my Grandfathers passed away before I was born. One Grandmother died during my HSC and the other, about 18 months ago. I also lost an uncle when I was too young to really understand. Other than that, no close family. A few friends have sadly not made it this far, but all in all, I have not been faced with a lot of...
Missed Opportunities
A few years ago a guy I worked with gave me a pretty sweet piece of advice. He said “Mate don’t regret the things you do in life. Just the things you don’t do”. It certainly helped me through the issue that I was faced with at the time. But once I moved on I guess I left that piece of advice with the issue.
But it came rushing back to me last week.
I had come back down from Hawks Nest for a day...
Manners, please.
Step inside your car, and you are transported in to a new world. A world seemingly free from manners.
It seems that when we are in our cars we feel we are excused from the social standards we adopt when outside of our cars. For example, if there is a queue clearly formed to use an ATM, would you walk up the side of the line and push in at the last minute to withdrawn your money? I doubt it. Then...
The Death of Traditions
Sitting around the dinner table with my parents and some close family friends at the beach house the other night, we began to speak of traditions. It was sparked specifically when referring to the stroke of midnight on New Year and the playing of Auld Lang Syne. An old Scottish tradition which over the years has spread well beyond the British Isles.
The comment was made that of the 50 or so at...