On January 2nd this year, I wrote my first blog post and finished with the words "I start 2020 with my eyes on a new challenge and the...

T'was the night before Christmas and all through the house, the Downes' were scrambling to take their annual Christmas pyjama photo! I...

After a few days of R&R in Perth, I hired a bike and decided to head down to Fremantle for a long but leisurely ride. While I was able to...

Sometimes it takes a little distance to form a perspective. It was Friday, Nov 27th and Victoria had just recorded 28 straight days of...

“If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.” – Henry Ford After 16 years in the recruitment...

Rediscovering the joy of freedom is simply wonderful. 6 weeks ago I made a goal to drop 5 kgs by Christmas - a conservative 500g per...

Employing people is not easy and I believe the recruitment consulting industry needs to do more to set themselves and their clients up...

Melbourne is on track to be one of the world's best news stories on the Covid-front. As I write this, it's now 'Donut Day 7' - that is,...

Sometimes you make a big mistake, but if you're just clever enough, just agile enough, mistakes can be turned to your favour. In case you...

Ours is a city of two tales right now - one of progress and achievement and the other of locked doors and public enquiries. Melbourne has...

I’ve been told I’m a resilient person. Someone who can dig deep and make it through the shitty times to enjoy the better days that...

This is a once-in-a-century budget that has one real goal - saving and creating jobs. Behind that goal sit some real heroes. The...

If you want a bit of happy juice, a few hundred mini hits of dopamine, then forget dodging the police 6kms from home and instead start a...

I caught this black house spider while I was cleaning the deck over the weekend in my endless list of home improvement projects. After...

In late March, our family was lucky enough to get two puppies who are now almost fully-grown Standard Poodles. These two new additions to...

I had a couple of jobs to work on around the house this week including painting the fence and fixing a Bluetooth problem with my...

It’s the first day of spring 2020 and the positives are beginning to outweigh the negatives. There’s a bit to look forward to so I...

It's been a really hard week. We're halfway through stage 4 lockdown, it's week 6 (or is it 8) of homeschooling and then this mid-winter...

A couple of weeks ago the 2020 list of the top 50 great places to work in Australia was published (congratulations to Cisco Sytems,...

There are a few things on the skills bucket list worth ticking off: learning another language, playing an instrument and touch typing to...