Shed. Discard. Let Go. That’s been the theme of the last several months. The Great De-Clutter. A kind of great reset, but for my life and more importantly my stuff. Obviously being a participant in rampant consumerism for a while, there is a lot of stuff. You only appreciate the amount of stuff you have when you have to move it or do something with it. For me, my huge mountain of stuff, the personal Mount Everest of belongings, has been books. Jeez, I have read and held onto a lot of books. I’ve read them several times, but then they live on a never ending length of shelves, effortlessly balancing dust. IKEA love me buying books. However, information wants to be free, so it has been great to re-gift that mountain of books. I’ve utilised one of those old red phone boxes, which has been converted into a community library, for the rehoming of my beloved books. The Community Library once was a bastion of well-thumbed Jilly Cooper and Bill Bryson books, but is now infested with books about self-help, Buddhism, conspiracies and activism. I can only plant the seeds…

Talking of books, I may just have broken the addiction. Well, certainly in the physical sense. E-books are the only way to go now. Having rehomed around 300 books recently, I am generally sick of having to shift those mighty tomes. I once got rid of 100 cookery books. Every recipe is online, so…

I’m back blogging about digital marketing, again. I took a break as life was way too hectic. Yeah, I underatand the irony: I’m rallying against building up houses full of ‘stuff’, but I’m giving people help to sell their stuff to people wanting more stuff to add to their already hughe piles of stuff. No matter how much stuff, for some people there is never enough stuff. I have no excuse. Marketing hints, tips and tools can be foud here. Regularly. It’s the good stuff. Real marketing. No gimmicks. No clickbait. Just the good stuff. The good stuff from the marketing wizards….

I was posed a few interesting questions this week, all around the fact that it is roughly three years since the start of the pandemic and the lockdowns that followed. The questions was: How has your life changed? Think about your life, your work, the people around you, how have they changed? I see a lot of changes, on a personal level. A lot of those changes are logisitical and practical. Am I very different person? Maybe. I think age changes you just as much as external events. Or maybe they work in conunction. I feel I am a lot more patient. A little less judgemental. A bit more understanding of others. Because utlimately we’re all fighting our battles, and I have no idea how tough that battle might be for that person. The toughest thing you’ve ever faced is the toughest thing you’ve ever faced.