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Struggling with the Backhand
25-08-24
As someone who was born and grew up in Wimbledon about a mile from the All England Lawn Tennis & Croquet Club, there was an expectation from an early age that I would play tennis. And I did. I was an average club player, occupying the third team and sometimes being called up into the second team. Despite not being in the elite category of club tennis, the one shot I really prided myself on was my running crosscourt double handed backhand.
Leadership behaviours
25-06-24
The behaviour exhibited by a leader is critical, it not only effects their ability to manage, but also ripples out to impacting the work of their subordinates and their wider teams.
The Leaders Mood
25-05-24
I’ve seen it and I’m sure you have - when the boss is in a foul mood, it percolates throughout the organization, and if they are in a good mood, this has the reverse effect.
Maintaining Energy
25-04-24
When I start to become distracted, struggle to focus, and get sidetracked by the trivial, it’s a sure sign I am short of sleep. I often slip into coasting, not thinking about what I should be doing. Some of the other signs that indicate my energy levels are low are the following:
Boredom is Killing Creativity
25-03-24
The digital milieu in which we exist has transformed our behaviour into scavengers, rummagers, hunters - we incessantly seek, crave, search for new information from our digital devices and platforms. And when we can’t find the newest and shiniest, boredom sets in.
How technology is fuelling disconnection
15-07-2023
While technology offers wider connections, the quantity of these associations leaves people feeling qualitatively empty.
Instilling some virtue
Winter 2022
As institutions have moved into a post-COVID mindset, for writers such as myself, the joy of visiting schools and speaking with students and teachers has returned. It was quite a busy year on that front, with the opportunity to visit nineteen schools in 2022. Generally, I spoke about history and storytelling and in some cases delivered masterclasses.
Visiting historic sites
15-03-2023
The year started as the previous one ended with a flurry of requests from schools for author visits. It’s really good to see school visits back on the agenda for writers. I know we all missed this during the past few years. It’s particularly heartening to see more faith-based schools reaching out to organize events.
Global travel 1000 years ago
29-10-2021
This month I shifted my focus from writing novels, to working with designers. We started to mockup some artwork for the cover of Legends of the Tasburai, the final novel in the Tasburai trilogy. We’ve kept the same look-and-feel as the other books in the series, and the first initial concepts drawings look really good. I also…
Shells as currency
29-09-2021
I spent much of the month deep into completing the second edit of Legends of the Tasburai, which is the third novel in the Tasburai trilogy. I actually finished the first draft back in 2017, but then…
Completing Tasburai
25-08-2021
I spent a lot of the month in the UK, having travelled there from Spain where we were doing a permaculture course. Andalusia, which is southern Spain was hot, though up in the mountains the weather was very nice. Coming to London…
Permaculture principles
28-07-2021
In July I travelled to one of the most fascinating places I’ve ever been to in my life. My family and I were blessed to have spent about 2 weeks in Andalusia, southern Spain, where we attended a course on permaculture…
A Demon’s Touch
30-06-2021
First off-the-bat, let me announce what I know many of you have been waiting for – the name of the third book in the Chronicles of Will Ryde and Awa Maryam Al Jameel. It’s called…A Demon’s Touch. Now that sounds rather mysterious and at the same time quite ominous…
Pandemics through history
26-05-2021
Hi, this is Rehan. And this is the first in the series of a set of monthly blogs, where I’ll be giving you an update on questions I frequently get asked– such as what are you writing? What are you reading? What are you researching? Where have you been? Who did you meet? What writing tips can you pass on? And so on...