Last week we asked 100 people an audacious question: ‘How can you make Guernsey the best place to live on earth?’ This week, we are getting on with the job of making it happen, by 2020. We are starting this movement with no idea of how we are going to get there. We are starting […]
Beyond The Comfort Zone
By March 19, 2014 16 Comments
20 years ago, when I was still at school in St Peter Port, Guernsey, I stood on stage at St James’ Concert and Assembly Hall to do the bible reading for morning assembly. It was awful! I was so paralysed with fear that I mumbled through the words as fast as I could. As I […]
Why We Are All Going Back to School
By March 12, 2014 32 Comments
I look at my almost 3 year old son and I see that he is already where he needs to be. For him, everything is fantastic! He lives in the moment, has no problem being himself, doesn’t care what anyone thinks, and he will try anything. The bottom line is – he loves life. Forget […]
The 1 thing I wish I had learnt before I started
By March 5, 2014 12 Comments
I often get asked, “What’s the best piece advice for those starting out?”. Usually I am not one for looking backwards. I am not one for regrets. I occasionally reflect on the past, but only to learn and move forwards. If I was leaving school or university right now, what would I say to steer […]
Bored Beyond Belief
By February 26, 2014 18 Comments
‘Bored Beyond Belief’ is the phrase I painfully scrawled on most of my folders at school. It was from a scene in my favourite Steve Martin movie – LA Story. Steve Martin wrote the phrase on a window during a period of utter boredom, living in a world that, deep down, did not connect with […]
Why Small Nations Can Change the World
By February 19, 2014 6 Comments
The outdated legislation and bureaucratic decision-making we face in the world today are major barriers to progress. There are good reasons for some of it, but compelling reasons to remove most of it. The answers to some of the biggest problems we face have already been solved – but government bureaucracy is holding them back. […]
Where is home?
By February 12, 2014 17 Comments
This is the question that keeps me awake at night. It is a question I have never really been able to answer. For many years, it was the question I didn’t know I needed to answer! There is such an innate human need for us to belong. From an evolutionary point of view, it makes […]
The Taxi of Tomorrow
By February 5, 2014 16 Comments
I, for one, hate owning cars. They are a pain in the *****. If anyone talks about the freedom of driving, they haven’t really considered what it takes away. Depreciation. Insurance. Fuel. Cleaning. Maintenance and servicing. A tiny scratch, bump or scrape costing a fortune to fix. Paying for parking at home and away. And […]
Oh, the Places You’ll Go at Burning Man 2014
By January 29, 2014 13 Comments
I have been on a lot of adventures and my favourite of them all has to be last year’s trip to the Black Rock Desert in Nevada, to the incredible Burning Man. I am not going to repeat myself, because it was so difficult to explain the first time I wrote about it. For my […]
The Road Less Travelled
By January 21, 2014 27 Comments
I took a group of 11 blog readers on a secret adventure earlier this month, as an experiment in self-exploration. It was an adventure that had fear and uncertainty at its very heart. They were asked to turn up to an airport with their passports, and that was pretty much all they knew. They had […]