I used to work as a Project Manager for a Swiss engineering company who operated in the oil and gas industry. As you can imagine there was a lot of money flowing around which was only matched by the sheer quantity of emails bouncing back and forth through inboxes. Most days it was like email ping pong around the office with managers, personal, clients. engineers, shop workers, bosses and even the secretary getting involved. Here is how I changed all that.

Being Skint Doesn’t have to get in the way of succeeding

A highly visual and critical lesson in your current reality and the implications it has for the rest of your life. You cannot afford to miss this one.

Life is one big social adventure – whether one is out with old friends, going to a dentist, or exploring new relationships while traveling. Everyone has unique interests, topics they are incredibly passionate about and could happily talk for hours to people about. These can be the most informed and impassioned teachers you will likely ever come across – and unlike a university degree, they won’t cost you anything.

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Why Read (1000 words)

As most of you will know I am not one for conventional advice, and this goes double when it comes to health and fitness. Everyone has an opinion and the experts make a lot of money telling people how to lose weight. Well here is one of my theories on keeping a decent body, loosely backed up by photographic evidence, and which also happens to include a lot of icecream.

Read on if I have spiked your sweet tooth.

Ok, so the situation is that you have just written an email to your boss asking for a pay rise and have outlined the reasons why you believe you are entitled to one – rightly or wrongly. It is rejected. No problem, time to rewrite it but this time just chance one simple word. Heres how.

I used to want to become an actor – I think it was mainly for the same reasons many people fancy their chances at it – for the money, the fame, the girls and then I realised I sucked at it.

This post focuses on the importance on minding your own business and understanding the difference between your work and your hobby.

“The problem then, is that you have so many ideas; some good, some not so good and some, quite frankly, more than likely illegal, and so little time.You cant possibly pursue all of them and yet to let one goes seems to be an evil akin to smothering a small fluffly kitten while watching Pop Idol.”

This post focuses on streamlining your ideas in order to let some be successful and looking to the future while focusing on present in order to succeed. If you wish to stay clear of going insane and ending up talking to trees then you had better read this post.

So, it is time to hack sleep, or more accurately – BECOME BETTER THAN SUPERMAN

Now I don’t mean hack as in the slasher/horror movie sort of way as this blog is far too upper class for that sort of cheesy, predictable depravity. Instead, to hack the art of sleep and the process of sleeping in order to find the optimum amount of sleep to get a night, what you can get away with having, what is way too much and how to best use the hours you do get. Basically, how to get one up on superman and wipe the smugness off his face.

You spend almost a third of your life on average asleep, a lack of sleep during old age nicely counterbalancing a ridiculously high amount while pretending to be a student. Surely then, it is worthwhile to optimize it? This is a rhetorical question, the answer is yes.