I have to say that I've been chasing my tail a bit and running around like a
headless chicken since the start of the month.
And all because of my ambition, which makes it challenging for me to prioritise
all the things that I want to work on. Plus -
My perception is that most people know me due to my two successes: WooThemes
[https://woocommerce.com] and now Conversio [https://conversio.com].<...>
I also suspect that most people don't know about all of my failures: Maiden
League Records, Akkerliefies, The Cellar, Radiiate V1, Lunchbox, Radiiate V2,
CFOh!, Radiiate V3
Whenever someone rhetorically asks "What's the meaning of life?", I have a wry
smile, because it always seems like such a loaded, unanswerable question.<...>
Yet when I look at my life, I've always had a very clear tactic for answering
that question: I've used the work I do as a
I had an uncomfortable realisation earlier. The only minority that I've ever
been part of, has been one of privilege.<...>
When I initially realised that, I was totally overwhelmed. Not in a way that I
felt bad about myself or what I've done in my life thus far. But it
Earlier this week, we rebranded and relaunched Receiptful as Conversio.<...>
This was ultimately a project that represented our own evolution and what we had
learnt about ourselves in the last 2 years since we first launched.
See... In those two years, we had done quite a few things that weren't
This past Sunday I had entered to race in my first triathlon. After a couple of
weeks of hard training, I felt that I was prepared and was excited to take part
in my first race.<...>
But I only swam for 100m before I quit the race. I did not
We have two young boys (5 & 2) in the house and I can positively say that their
random sleeping and (subsequent) morning routines has made it really hard for me
to stick to my own morning work routines.<...> This has been especially hard on
me, because I'm great in the
I started Exhale by sharing my very first exhale experience when I realised that
my life - and especially my work / business - felt like I was pushing a rock up
the hill.<...> That sensation and the fact that I had become unhappy and tired
in doing so, was my
We often hear about why work/life balance is important, how a few people are
successful at achieving it (survivorship bias much?) and mostly how the majority
of the world just struggles with this.<...>
I used to be that hamster on that wheel too.
In February this year, I decided
When I left WooThemes, one of my goals was that I wanted to create a SaaS
company, because I wanted to have the challenge of hacking the recurring revenue
growth curve.<...> Inspired very much by "the startup way of thinking", growth
hacking the shit out of a business just held