I have many failed businesses on my entrepreneurial resume.

I have a defunct website design business. I have an Etsy store earning pittances despite five years of painful development. I have a defunct online directory, with an evaporated friendship and any hope of recouping the start-up costs. I have more business failure than I care to admit.

I can’t blame everything on the pandemic. Most of my businesses suffered financial fatality long before the world suffered together. Sometimes I invent a scenario when I could blame all my failures on the global crisis. …

Are we destined to find Prince Charming? Or will our princess be waiting at the top of the tower, waiting for us to rescue them?

The short answer is no.

We’re wise enough to know that the love fairy tale doesn’t exist. We know these are stories set in a land where people don’t age, evil people suffer in misery, and the heroes find happiness.

With our wisdom and dating maturity, we know the fairy tale doesn’t exist. So with this tiny part of cynicism instilled into us, we give up on the idea of finding “Mr/Miss Right”. And settle for “Mr/Miss Right Now”.

Too often we compromise more than we should. We give up on being with someone we’re attracted to, that makes us…

When someone asks me what an entrepreneur needs to become successful, rarely do I hear ‘the ability to separate’.

Instead, I hear qualities like tenacity, knowledge, passion, motivation, savvy. And a must-have good idea.

Whilst I can’t deny those qualities are important, they aren’t nearly as effective if you don’t know how to one thing well. And that is to separate yourself from business and personal.

I speak from experience.

Separation has been my downfall. When I first quit my job and started my now-defunct website design business, I didn’t anticipate how crucial separation was. I let my time become…

I’m in a Facebook group for relationship advice. And I don’t recommend you join.

You go in thinking your relationship is fine. By the end, you’re convinced your partner is a cheating liar, who’s never loved you, and who is having off it with their co-worker. Even though your partner works from home.

The reason for this is the groups underlying commonality of what users post. Most of the people on there are trying to figure out how to change their partner’s behavior. Or figure out if they’re cheating on them.

I read through the few posts on the day…

Sex and the City created the dating revolution of the 1990s.

For everything I’ve learned about love, relationships, dating and sex, there is something about Candace Bushnell’s semi-biographical adaptation I can’t ignore. It wasn’t about what was said but how it was said.

Unapologetic. Real. Honest.

It defined what it was to be normal. Sex swings were normal. Wanting a perfect marriage and two kids was normal. Changing your mind about what you want in a relationship depending on who you’re with at the time was normal. Everything in relationships was now normal.

Until the series aired, we were in…

Thanks to a lockdown here in Melbourne, this Aussie is a little relieved.

And that’s because the baby shower scheduled for last Sunday became banned.

I’m sad for the expectant mother. And for the event itself. From the invitation, it was shaping to be a memorable occasion. And there was a promise of finger sandwiches, which I have a secret obsession for.

But there is this part of me that isn’t sad. It’s the thirty-three-year-old, married me that knows this situation all too well. As the talk of babies begins, the conversation eventually turns to questions about me. …

Everyone knows the rebound relationship narrative.

Person A breaks up with Person B. Person B tries to fill the space left by Person A but going out with Person C.

The space between break-up and the new relationship is quick. Days, weeks, a month. Fast.

The BC relationship doesn’t work out, because the AB break up is too soon. It’s a classic.

The problem with this classic story is that we have it ingrained into our perception of dating. We’ve set rules on dating grieving, how long we’re allowed to stay single before moving on. …

Delete. Unsubscribe. Mark as spam.

I spent all morning, rinse repeating through my email inbox. I lavishly culled all the motivational entrepreneurs sharing their business hacks with me. One after the other, saying the same thing, dictating the same rules.

It wasn’t that I hated any of them. I subscribed to them for a reason. I loved so much of what they were saying, and even more that they chose to share so much with their audience.

But I had my fill and it was time to part way with the noise.

I stopped reading their daily advice some years…