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The Half full LIFE

Ideas and inspiration to live your best midlife years.
I’m almost sixty and despite having a relatively successful career, three years ago I decided I was wasting the second half of my life, getting paid to sit in a glass bowl and send emails, and that I hadn’t spent nearly enough time with my family, being outside with others and living the life I wanted.
So, I made significant changes to my life and went from sitting in an office in London to being outside in a Greek fishing village. These are the failures, learnings and successes on my life-changing journey, from trying to be rich - to living a rich life.
A journey to living my best midlife years.

LIVE life LIKE no one’s watching

Life is simple in childhood, playing with friends, gazing with curiousity at a wonderous world, trusting your instincts and dreaming of what you are going to do when you grow up – when anything is possible!

We don’t know then about the advertising, societal pressures and adult norms that are going to try and make us pretend to be a perfect someone we aren’t, to compete with others, when we’d been happy playing with them and to earn and buy more, so that we can become happier than we were as carefree children.

But none of that is true.

I left school at sixteen to work as a shop assistant for three years, I didn’t have a passport till I was twenty-four, but I’ve ended up breaking records, travelling the world, winning awards and working with anyone and everyone, from royalty, heads of state and global business leaders to celebrities and billionaires.

and ive done that by keeping and building on my childlike view of the world.

I’ve learnt a lot about the simplest ways to succeed - compromising, collaborating, thinking big and learning from your failures - but I also learnt that none of my rich colleagues were more contented than anyone else I knew.

No one teaches us, except experience, that a simple, happy life isn’t achieved through money but by doing things with others. Full lives don’t need full bank accounts.

We all know that though. It’s in our nature. It’s the demands on us to fit into society, that can make us lose sight of it.

This website is here to share mine and others’ experiences, tips, and resources about how trusting your own natural childlike instincts is a way to live life as if no one else is watching, to have less stress and stuff but more fun, conversations, adventures, contentment and even success.

With our always-on access to information on screens, we are rapidly becoming half robot, so, whilst we battle for the natural planet, let’s not lose what is critical to human nature, our feelings and behaviours, common to us all, that create those moments that keep our own world’s going round.

Living a childlike life enables you to work smarter, play more, be healthier and live more meaningfully. To live a life that is rich in itself.

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Chris :)

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