How The Value of The Pound Affects Self-Build
Hi everyone 👋, 🔥 What I have been doing this week 🚁 There have been several deadlines to meet with Design work that has drained me quite a bit this week. I have managed to achieve the objectives, but it seems to have made me procrastinate in the evening by about 2000 when I eventually […]
Calming the Chimp
Hi everyone 👋, 🔥 What I have been doing this week 🤒 It has been a bit of a slow week in terms of output this week due to my daughter having a fever all weekend. She’s better now thankfully. 🚲 I went out on my road bike for the first time in two-years. We […]
Mapping 18 Grand Designs
Hi everyone 👋, 🔥 What I have been doing this week 🕸 More refining on the website this week whenever I get the chance to work on it amongst the other chores of life. I have now added these newsletters to the site. The Grand Reviews Philosophy is now ready and it outlines the how […]
Reframe Your Long-Term Goals
Hi everyone 👋, 🔥 What I have been doing this week 🕸 I have been playing around with Custom Fields to improve the layout of the Grand Reviews Template page. It gives each page a bit more structure than the typical WordPress defaults so that I can add more taxonomies that are specific, such as […]
The Practice Playground
Hi everyone 👋, 🔥 What I have been doing this week 👷♂️ I have been doing quite a lot of thinking and building in the background to determine the framework for this newsletter and the website. I’m about a month in since having the idea of sharing my processes and journey and it has really […]
Where to begin?
Hi everyone 👋, 🔥 What I have been doing this week 🕸 My main task this week has been further work on my new website where the main articles will be written and posted. These things take time and mental energy which is difficult when you are sleep deprived and in a full time job. 📺 I […]
Celebrations and Setup!
Hi everyone 👋, 🔥 What I have been doing this week 🕸 My main task this week has been buying the domain and setting up hosting for my new website where the main articles will be written and posted. It is surprising how much time this can take up and sometimes feels a bit like “fake productivity”. […]
The Reason
Why start this newsletter? The answer to this question is simple. Accountability. I want to fully commit to the challenge of building my own home and by sharing the experience not only might it help others, but it should also help me. I could easily stand by and watch the years tick by without achieving […]