Author Archives: Ewan

Are You Sick of Everyone Being an Idiot?

2 Tips for Making the World a Better Place by Reducing the Number of Idiots. No-one likes an idiot, and yet world is full of them. But you want a better world right? So how do you reduce idiocy in the world and make a better planet for all the people who don’t want to…

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Decorating my son’s hat, 1983

We’d ringed the missile base at Greenham and later on, we pinned floppy roses round your brim and almost at the drop of the hat onto your head you took off every stitch and danced for Fionn, swinging your arms across the tumulus hill of your little boy belly, and the roses sang, the blue…

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The Man Who Let Go Of My Life

If there is one big lesson I find myself being taught in life at the moment, it is the practice of letting go. I see the young man in me that so desperately wants to succeed and show how valuable he is to the world around him.  I see the boy in me who finds…

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Why have I not been writing on this blog?

I’ve held this belief for the last few years, that it made sense for me to deliberately restrict myself to relatively low level jobs. The idea was that the level of stress and challenge was low enough to allow me to expend the saved energy on my ‘real’ jobs – the entrepreneurial projects, the writing,…

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What is the teaching?

Do I have some new chunk of wisdom, To impart upon a fantastical and eager mind? Or is the wisdom, That there is no wisdom. I feel called to simply live. To follow your will, and bend myself under it’s questions Seeking only the smallest answer That leads onto the next curiosity How can I…

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The Power of Not Knowing: how to doubt your goals and do them anyway

Do you have lots of cool ideas, but then get stuck in doubting whether they’re the right ones, or will take you down the right path? Feeling like you have to know the right thing or right way, is probably the very thing that’s stopping you from moving forwards.

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The beginning of awesomeness: What you can expect from ewantownhead.com

I have some big news to tell you. I made a big (and admittedly, slightly scary) decision about a month ago. I decided that I was going to put all my other entrepreneurial projects further down the priority list. I decided to go all out to make this blog an awesome place where you can…

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Big Change Imminent!

No, I haven’t run out of energy for this blog almost as soon as it begun. In fact, it’s just the opposite!  I am currently working some serious changes to this blog.  Today marks a big occasion: I’ve just secured a social loan from a kind and interested benefactor that will enable to get this…

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What is purpose? (part II)

OK, I’ve covered the straightforward version of purpose.  Here’s the far out, wacky version. There is a story that takes place in the Bardo realm.  The Bardo realm is the place in between lives, where your soul or spirit resides after death, and before they are reborn.  The story goes that in this place, the…

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What is purpose? (part I)

What do I mean when I talk about purpose?  It’s a word that’s thrown about A LOT!  OK, here’s the straightforward answer as I see it. Your purpose is the thing that you really, really want to do.  It is born from you starting to tune into who you feel you are, and what really…

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