Yesterday (Sunday), I spent the entire day from about 8am until about 10pm playing catch up with all the outstanding work from my ecommerce business. This was while everyone else was at the beach cooling off from the nearly 50 degree (yes 50 degree C!) scorcher of a day that we were having.

Shit it’s hard when it’s blue skies and a gorgeous day outside but you don’t get anywhere without sacrifices so it has to be done. Sooo happy at the end of the day though at all that I managed to get done and it set me up in the right mindset to get going again after the break.

Today was really my first day back at ‘life’ though, after living the Aussie dream with family for the last 2 weeks and of course struggling to get to sleep last night.

The day started with what I knew was going to be the hardest part of all… exercise!… ... Continue Reading

The 80s and 90s was the era of the musclebound action hero and as young lads growing up in this period, we were all introduced to the likes of Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone and Jean Claude Van Damme at an early age… despite the 18 only certificates on most of the movies!

Think all time classic films like Predator, Commando, Terminator, Conan, Rocky, Rambo, Kickboxer, Blood Sport… and the list goes on and on.

As kids, we would watch these movies on the edge of our seats, looking up to the legendary action heroes who were the stars of the show and loving every second of it when they started kicking ass later in the movie… which was always the case.

Every lad I know of a similar age, all grew up watching these movies at an early age and shared the same experience. It’s this experience that has created a certain connection to the movies, characters and actors that is really difficult to put it into words.… ... Continue Reading

I have these moments of appreciation all the time. Often with friends and family, always with nature, wildlife and the great outdoors, sometimes with new experiences and occasionally something completely random. Well I’m going to start sharing them in the ‘Life’ category, partly for my personal diary sort of thing and partly so other like-minded souls can potentially share a moment of happiness too.

This is the first post in an ongoing series titled ‘Moments of Appreciation’. Wherever possible I’ll try to capture things on video now that I know that I’ll be doing a running series, but this one is a moment from one of my first days in Sydney after emigrating from the UK.

An early morning walk today brought back the memory, so I’m going to share it with you now.

I usually do a 60 minute walk to the gym every morning and as part of that, I often walk through a park.… ... Continue Reading