Hi, I'm Paul.
This site started off as a way of documenting life optimization topics such as how to beat procrastination, build better habits, and manage my emotions more effectively and has since evolved into deeper topics like post rationalism, living congruently and with meaning.
I became tired of hiding, pretending to be someone else, seeking validation, social anxiety and feeling that I wasn't good enough. Despite getting off to a slow start, I've managed to get to a place in life that I couldn't have dreamed of as a young and insecure guy in his early twenties. I'm still on my journey: removing skeletons from the closet, overcoming fears, battling demons, but I can say that life is getting better as each year passes by.
As I became more and more grateful, I felt the urge to document the process and share ideas, learnings, systems that have helped improve my life on this site.
Ideas that have had the Most Impact in my Life
- The daily writing habit that changed my life
- 1000 perfect days - a framework for achieving life changing results
- Feel the Fear and do it anyway
- How to build Habits for Good - the Warrior Habits System
- 2 Questions to ask yourself if you're scared to pull the trigger
- Developing the Habit of Seeing Things Through – How To Become a Finisher
- How to defeat overwhelm when there is no end in sight
- Using AI to find direction: Discovering your north star and life purpose
My Journey
- Can I Run for England? My Running Journey Begins
- Lessons from the grind, hustle and mortality
- Lessons from a Decade of Running and then Selling a Software Company
- Retiring at 40 – 6 Ideas from my Unconventional Path to Early Retirement
- My journey to quitting alcohol as a binge drinker
- How I Reached new Strength PR’s as a Natural Lifter after 20 years of Training while approaching 40
- 2024 - Year in Review
Recent Posts
How I Ran a Sub-20 Minute 5K (and Exactly What It Took)
Using AI to Find Direction: Discovering Your North Star and Life Purpose
The Courage to Live in Alignment: Lessons From Grind, Hustle, and Mortality
Seeing things through: My Checklist for Deciding when to Commit and when to say No
Retiring at 40 – 6 Ideas from my Unconventional Path to Early Retirement
“It has to be Perfect” – Perfectionism as a form of Procrastination and Tips to Overcome it
Tactics to Make Yourself Just Get Started (Battling Resistance)
My Procrastination Busting Playbook
2024 – Year in Review
13 Months without Alcohol – Last Update
9 Months Without Alcohol (Update)
How I Reached new Strength PR’s as a Natural Lifter after 20 years of Training while approaching 40
Update – 7 Months without Alcohol
4 Months without Alcohol
3 Months without Alcohol (Update)
2 Months without Alcohol – A Personal Reflection
A New Chapter: Lessons from a Decade of Running and then Selling a Software Company
The Universal Currency of Motivation
Learn by Shipping
What Woodpeckers Know
Rebranding Work
1000 Perfect Days – A Framework for Achieving Life Changing Results
Beyond the Hangover: Insidious Plastic Changes are the Real Reason to Stop Drinking
Perfect your Sleep – How to Cajole your Body into a Consistent Sleep Schedule
Fat to Fit (Kinda) – How I got into Shape during Lockdown as a Busy Entrepreneur
Daily Positive Cornerstone Habits to Wane off Negativity and Depression
A Practical Approach to getting out of a Negative Slump
Monthly Review: April 2021
Generic Self Help Advice: One Man’s Meat is another Man’s Poison
Scope Creep – The Enemy of Shipping
The Physiology behind “Feel the Fear and Do it Anyway” and Why it’s often Really Good Advice
Skill Hacking with 30 Day Challenges
Foe Signals, the Urban Scowl and a Small Habit that Improves your Attractiveness to Strangers
Why the Paradox of Self Development is Bullshit and How you Can Accept yourself and Grow without Conflict
How to Defeat the Feeling of Overwhelm when taking on Huge Projects with no End in Sight
Positive Reinforcement using Visual Reminders of Momentum
The One Simple Daily Writing Habit that Changed my Life Completely
The Law of Disproportionate Results vs The Law of Diminishing Returns
The Single Best way to Bust through a Productivity Rut
Why Meditate? What will you get out of it?
How to Stop Worrying and Start Living (Book Notes)
Why Cryptocurrencies will Change the World for the Better (what most people don’t understand)
My Next Consistency Challenge (and what went wrong with the last one!)
Monthly Review: April, 2019
Monthly Review: March, 2019
Monthly Review: February, 2019
Monthly Review: January, 2019
Where to Find Me
I have deliberately refrained from using most forms of social media, however I do have a Warrior Habits YouTube channel (I plan to start making new videos for the channel shortly).
The best way to get in touch is to leave a comment on a blog post.