This is a guest post by Leah Cox The incessant beeping of the alarm pulls me sharply from the safety and comfort of my sleep – like a starving wolverine with its jaws clasped firmly on its prey, dragging the defenseless and the weak into a new nightmare, where no amount of kicking […]
April 7, 2015
How Your Employer is Turning You into a Battery Chicken: 5 Reasons to Break Out of the Cage
October 28, 2014
10 Cunning Ways to Grow Your Business and Earn More Money
Starting your own business is difficult. By the very nature of the term – you have to actually start something, which invariably means you have nothing to begin with. No clients, no products and no profits. Each day is a new adventure. You have no idea where this story ends. […]
September 30, 2014
6 Survival Tips For the Recently Unemployed (or how quitting your job can rock your world)
Have you ever been fired from a job? Not in a mutual termination, or a ‘sorry, we’re not renewing your contract’ kind of way, but a proper disciplinary hearing followed by a swift kick up the arse and a see you later (and never come back) kind of way. I […]
April 28, 2014
How I Quit My Job, Built My Guitar Tuition Business From Scratch And Gained 25 Students In Under 18 Months
I’m no entrepreneur. It seems as though everyone brands themselves as one these days but I have no idea what being an entrepreneur actually means. The word conjures up an image of a smug guy in his early twenties, slick hairstyle, with an equally shocking suit to match. Either that […]
February 10, 2014
I Had NO IDEA How I Was Gonna Do This… but I did it anyway!
This is a guest post by Dana Gore Do you have any idea what I’m talking about? Not yet huh? Ok, that’s cool. Just stay with me for a minute and it’ll all come together 🙂 See – the reason I’m writing about this subject is because I know a […]
January 2, 2014
The 15 Best Psycholocrazy articles of 2013 – A Year In Review
It’s that time of year when everyone is all partied out and can’t be bothered with the whole ‘returning to normality’ thing. Happy new limbo to you all – I hope you had a good one! So with this in mind I thought it would be a great idea to […]
September 30, 2013
Stop Using Your Age as an Excuse!
I sat on the edge of my bed, gazing at the TV – in awe at how this little bald man could manipulate so many instruments to his every whim. The guitar he had strapped on was almost double his size yet his stature and confidence gave the illusion that […]
September 4, 2013
8 Awesome Ways To Improve Your Job (that you can try today)
There are few activities in life more satisfying than pulling out a big wad of cash and blowing it on something you really don’t need. That feeling of handing the better part of your rent money to a grubby handed shop assistant in exchange for whatever it is that floats […]
May 22, 2013
The Idiots Guide To Being An Idiot
The more I read about personal development, the more I realise that everyone has it all back to front. The goal shouldn’t be to improve ourselves. It should be to screw up as often as possible because that’s infinitely more interesting. If we lived in a perfect world then life […]
March 1, 2013
10 Reasons why you should work for yourself
Yes it’s another one of those ‘quit your job’ type articles but the reason I write so many of them is because working for yourself is just so goddamn awesome. I quit my job to become a guitar teacher and for the first time I can genuinely say that I […]
January 16, 2013
7 reasons why you don’t want to quit your job (and how to ignore them)
You’re probably reading this for one of two reasons. Either you have some kind of dissatisfaction with your job or I bribed you with a promise of chocolate biscuits and copious amounts of alcohol. Don’t worry I’m not stooping that low (unless it would work, let me know…). Anyway, if […]
November 29, 2012
Retail is evil – Why I gave up my job
It felt like I had just been hit by a train. Her comment had blindsided me to such an extent that I stood there, open mouthed, struggling to comprehend what I had just heard. Her eyes staring at me intently; her ignorance was astounding but yet I couldn’t respond. I […]
September 15, 2012
You Are NOT Your Job
Most of us have had a time in our lives when we meet someone new and that dreaded question rears its ugly head. “So what do you do?” Those words can have a crippling effect on our social interactions, to the point where we can even lie and deceive for […]
August 20, 2012
How To Find Your Passion In 5 Simple Steps
As stated in my previous article Don’t like doing something? Stop NOW! I mention how waking up and dreading the day ahead is a really bad way to live your life. We’ve all been through it and some of us experience this right now. If you woke up today feeling […]
August 13, 2012
12 questions to ask yourself before quitting your job
This is just a quick post that was inspired by a lot of the questions (and self doubts) I had when I became interested in quitting my job. 1. Do I really want to do this? Ask yourself first of all if your new venture is really what you want […]