I stumbled across this, previously unpublished, post a few days ago and upon re-reading realised that much of what it contains still holds true when it comes to weight-loss. For me, at least. This shouldn't…

Everybody - it seems - is in search of the latest quick fix when it comes to their fitness. The elusive Silver Bullet that will give massive results in exchange for the minimum viable effort.…

Hacks used to be all the rage back in the late 2000’s. Led primarily by Tim Ferriss, who helped us hack our working week initially, we were soon hacking our life, our fitness, our cooking…

Here are a few quick & easy workouts you can do on the beach in next-to-no-time and then jump straight into the ocean for a refreshing cool-down. No worries if you don't have beach access.…

The internet, as we know, is full of charlatans, snake-oil salesmen and catfishermen.  So where does a time-poor Dad go in search of smart, sensible training advice? Instagram is amongst the best & worst of…

Morning routines used to be a “thing,” popularised by Tim Ferriss’ endless probing and quest for granular detail when interviewing top-performers on his ridiculously successful podcast. It was here we learned that retired military Generals…

There's no denying 2020 was a Mongolian clusterf*ck (yep, that's a technical term) of a year for most of us, and I say this as someone who lost not one, but two Dads in 2019.…

The football season (and by ‘football’, I mean proper football / Association Football / the English kind) normally runs through the Australian winter, April to September. This year, 2020, the world got turned upside down…

It's that time of year. Where I rake over the coals of my annual reading, all the time trying to convince myself that I'm an intellectually curious type of fellow, while really I just want…

A little over a year ago I wrote this article (linked here) about the top 5 personal finance apps in Australia. Or rather, the ones I’m using the most and deriving the most benefit from…

I was recently talking to a former start-up founder who got a promotion and is now an “entrepreneur”, meaning he hit the pay-dirt and sold up (or out), making a motza in the process. One…

It’s Father’s Day in England. I’m reminded of this, firstly, by a kind friend asking me how I’m doing and then, as if by osmosis, by the Father’s Day-related takeover of my Instagram feed. I’m…

I've been getting into dumbbell workouts in lockdown. They're versatile which means you can attack your fitness in a range of ways,  and take up very little room so you can use them inside or…

I’m back at my second home, the East London pad of my brother and his family. My second family. Another month, another funeral, another Dad lost. But this time it’s the real deal, my actual…

It is a truth universally acknowledged, to quote Jane Austen, that a quick workout is a good workout, provided you use your time wisely. That means no phone-glancing, no ‘hardbody 10’ perving, and absolutely (and…

Books, books everywhere. If you’re not reading them, you’re listening to them. On Audible, that is. This year’s haul seemed a bit light, particularly when compared to last year's list which had to be broken…

A whistle-stop visit back to the UK for funeral-iffic (which, by the way, is a terrible made-up word) reasons has provided ample opportunity for grief, reflection and celebration, to the extent that I’m really only…

The Fintech revolution is upon us. A product of technological developments pushing financial services into the next (or, arguably, the current) realm, 'Fintech' has spawned countless apps, websites, services and solutions, many of which are…

Back in the day, before ‘Fintech’ was a buzzword, Chris Brycki pulled up stumps at his investment banking job and decided that there had to be a better & fairer way for average folks to…

This may be unsurprising to those who know me from my days on the cobbles as one of the (self-proclaimed) most feared street fighters in the small & leafy village of Frisby-on-the-Wreake, but I’ve always…

Just recently I got to spend nine days and nights with my little mini-me. This might not seem like a big deal but it’s the longest time he and I have spent together with no…

Life hacking, once considered hip, new and cool has now been relegated to something far less quixotic and interesting. These days it feels as though we’re all living in what is bascially survival mode, and…

Definition: A startup incubator is a collaborative program designed to help new startups succeed. Incubators help entrepreneurs solve some of the problems commonly associated with running a startup by providing workspace, seed funding, mentoring, and…

A recent post detailed the tactics I was going to employ in an attempt to shed a little extra timber that I’d accrued post-shoulder-surgery in August. It was my own little '6 Week Challenge,' tracking…

Recently I ditched the grog for 50 days straight. This might not seem like much but for me, as a borderline professional wine drinker, this was a stretch. You see, the ole fermented grape-juice has…