How to Time Travel via Music

Have you ever heard a song from many years ago, and it immediately sends you back to a specific time in your life, sometimes even a specific moment or memory? The songs that have the ability to do that to you are what I call Life Songs. They are the songs that make up the soundtrack to your life. Some of them result in happy flashbacks, others do the opposite, but all of them are powerful time-travelling machines that instantly make you smile or wipe away a silent tear!

I did this last year, and I think it's an idea everybody should adopt! I made a playlist of songs that have had this impact on my life, selecting ONE song from each year since the year I was born.

How to Survive a Monday

I'll be the first one to admit that Mondays are the worst day of the week! I don't think I'm alone on that one! For me, specifically, it's the busiest of the five working days, which means it's also the longest of the five working days. All the crap that happened over a weekend usually has to be resolved on the Monday, which makes it one of those "fix-up" days. You've also come off a two day break (hopefully) so your body and your mind have just become accustomed to rest and relaxation, before you're thrown cruelly back into the blender! It's quite a challenge mentally!

However, I have worked out a game plan for surviving a Monday, and I'm sharing it with you today:

How to Train your Dragon - I mean, Wife!

Now, if you've opened this post, you're one of two things: You're either a husband/wife with a partner problem, or you're just curious to see what type of idiot would even think it would be safe to call their wife a dragon!

Well, no need to panic! I think I'll take my chances with this one!

How to Write to a Schedule

Whether you've been writing for years, or whether you are just starting out, one of the most frustrating things is starting a project that you never finish, or taking so long to finish it that by the time you have, you just don't "feel" it anymore! If you know this feeling, don't despair! I am going to share my own method of creating and sticking to a writing schedule - one that works for me, and that may just work for you too!

Back to School

So it's the first day of school again for most kids in South Africa. I have a 12-year old daughter who, unfortunately, has been shunted around from school to school over the past few years, no fault of her own! She is starting at her new school today, in Grade 7, and my wife and I dropped her off this morning. The funny thing about children is that they are tougher than we think!