One phrase I think back to is from Derek Sivers, author of Anything You Want, one of my absolute favourite business books. He writes, when you make a company, you make a utopia. It’s where you design your perfect world. I love this idea of designing your own utopia – in business and in life. We can change more than we think. We’re not the powerless authors of our own lives that we sometimes believe we are.
I've loved spending so much time in the mountains recently. My left knee, however, has not had as much fun. My plans for the next few days (another hike) had to change. If I can't hike in the mountains, I can go to the spa in the mountains.
This three-day hike has completely changed my idea of Montreux, by finding out what's around it and above it. Beautiful mountains aren't just in the Berner Oberland, after all.
For about fifteen years, I hated water. I hated being near it and especially being in it. That's changed a lot in the last year, starting in Svalbard and continuing in Switzerland throughout the winter.
2018: 41 books, 11,211 pages. “To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.” ― W. Somerset Maugham
Morocco had been mentioned to me over the last few years by so many different people; I kept hearing how despite being so close, it's an entirely different world. And there's sun. I'd also been following Jenny Tough's 861km run across the Atlas Mountains.
