Musings of a man who is running out of time.
Fear is indeed the mind killer
For most of my life, fear has held me back on most fronts. Decisions made out of fear, Anna what I think people might think. There’s a good chance I’ve only lived half a life because I’ve not gone all the way out of fear.
You can’t hit what you don’t aim.
This speaks of intentionality and the purpose of setting goals. Sounds downright elementary but sometimes, going back to the basics and keeping the foundations simple is not just necessary at certain junctures but more difficult every time you come back to it. I’ve just turned 50 last month and wondered about writing a piece that…
Treatment
Yet another cup of coffee. Too sour from the percolator. I much prefer the one from the stove top. My Italian Berlotti. Another early morning start. Missed the first alarm but I knew that might happen. Sitting in front of the illuminated screen at 3:07 am for the third day in a row. Sleep deprivation…
Value
Work comes naturally to me. Doing what you love creates a terrible habit. That the internalized narrative is since I’m doing what I love, that is in itself the reward. What a privilege right? The flip side is that I then don’t always put a monetary value to the time and effort being put into…
The Year of Living Dangerously
The flow of time passes differently for everyone. To the child sitting in class, daydreaming of playing Minecraft, the seconds move along at snail’s pace. To the sprinter who trained all year for a 100m dash, the seconds and moments between are all that matter. To a 20 something who just started their career in…
Year 50
It’s really alright not to have a year end retrospective. I don’t have one set to Coldplay, not do I have a supercut of the year’s highlights. I did however scroll through the photos of the year and created a highlight reel in my head. That’s got to count for something right? There was a…
49 and counting.
It was going to be the inaugural Medium post. But I wasn’t sure if it was clickbaity enough or if it would end up being a listicle of things I had learnt in my 40’s. Perhaps it would end up as a private journal entry somewhere the sun don’t shine. Where my reflective thoughts would…
Enough
Scanxiety is a real thing. It denotes the anxiousness one gets before a scan or before getting the results of a scan. My last scan was early this year. I had the all clear. Still NED, No evidence of Disease. No cancer that could be detected. Of course I was thrilled. Elated. I went off…
The first of many or the end of a journey.
I’ve been fortunate and lucky enough to be able to make a living as a working commercials director for the last 19 years. Started when I was 30 on a small no budget pro-bono spot for the newly launched Yellow Ribbon project. Given the chance by advertising legend, Patrick Low, then ECD at DY&R, we…
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