This quote is so telling: “The best economic response to the virus was always going to be a strong public health response, and that’s why our strategy from the start has been to go hard and go early,” -NZ Finance Minister Grant Robertson. It goes without saying but I am extremely proud to be a […]

A few years ago, I was doing Yamabushi training at the top of Mt. Haguro when we could hear an alarm off in the distance. You know what the alarm was? North Korea had sent off a missile and it was headed in our direction. But, of course, we were in the middle of training, […]

By writing a blog every day, you start to pick up on writing habits that you have. One I found was the word ‘actually’. This word actually has no meaning. I realised that if you take it out of any sentence, the meaning doesn’t actually change. I also try to make things as short as […]

When my dad died young, it really made me think about what was important in life, and it had an unprecedented impact on my decision making too. My decisions went from ‘that could be good, I’ll think about trying it’ to ‘if I feel like doing it, I probably should’. And so I did, and […]

When we are in uncertain times, it is easy to play the victim. It is easy to say that we are worse off than other people and expect special treatment. But this gets us nowhere. So you have it harder than others, what do you want us to do about it? This was mainly triggered […]

I spent the whole day making videos for my classes tomorrow. If it wasn’t for the coronavirus, I wouldn’t have gotten round to this at all. I had intended on making these videos years ago, I just never got round to it thanks to the excuses I gave yesterday. Due to time limits, the quality […]

The resistance works in mysterious ways. It seeps into your dreams and stops them from becoming real. So I thought, why not label the excuses the resistance gives you, then you will realise how ridiculous they are! Here’s a list of excuses I thought of that stopped me making my YouTube videos all those years […]