Sleep at night. Live wholeheartedly by day
I am Jeremy Deedes. I am a life coach. I work with you to master your life by mastering your money.
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A life changing Black Monday
30 years ago weather and financial storms hit the South east and the City hard. For me, the Great Storm and Black Monday did truly change my life.
A life changing Black Monday
30 years ago weather and financial storms hit the South east and the City hard. For me, the Great Storm and Black Monday did truly change my life.
Miles and miles…
Not a bad year, on...
Their Finest
Their Finest is a deeply moving, beautiful, funny film based on Lissa Evans' book Their Finest Hour and a Half. Its a classic Hero’s Journey.
Appeal to Greg Clark
I was moved (again) to write to Energy Secretary Greg Clark to call a halt to fracking
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Looking forward to 2018
A very happy, peaceful and prosperous 2018 to everyone! I’ve been hard at work at Living...
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Miles and miles…
Not a bad year, on...
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Monday morning, and its beautiful
A real joy to be up and running through the countryside white with frost, under clear skies at dawn this glorious morning.
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Appeal to Greg Clark
I was moved (again) to write to Energy Secretary Greg Clark to call a halt to fracking
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A life changing Black Monday
30 years ago weather and financial storms hit the South east and the City hard. For me, the Great Storm and Black Monday did truly change my life.
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Days Like These…
Nabakov describes a series of wonderful events punctuated by mishaps as ‘broken bridges’. This morning was more like river in spate with two stepping stones remaining.
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Tasha Eurich and Insight
Interesting interview with Tasha Eurich on self-awareness and the power (or not) of self-reflection.
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Their Finest
Their Finest is a deeply moving, beautiful, funny film based on Lissa Evans’ book Their Finest Hour and a Half. Its a classic Hero’s Journey.
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With gratitude for 2016
With gratitude to all who made 2016 a memorable year for me
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Really useful books about money (and other helpful resources)
January is a time when we think about money so I have selected books and resources to help you get through the dark days of winter into an enlightened New Year.
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Sugru mouldable glue – hack it, stick it, fix it
Sugru is the ultimate in fix it stuff. Its a sort of putty that comes in sachets. It is flexible, sticky, resistant to heat and cold, waterproof and soft to the touch. It comes in a range of colours and can be used to fix or hack virtually anything.
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Making progress along the path less travelled
At the end of July, after thirty years, I stopped giving authorised advice. I completed the...
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It’s about transformation, not products
When we buy, what are we really buying – a product or service, a benefit, or a transformation? What really interests me as a life and financial coach is directly altering the behaviour of a client so their life is transformed.
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After the Great North Run
It is an event like no other and it was an honour and a privilege to join 57,000 other runners at the Great North Run last weekend.
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Our unusual garden visitor in Arran.
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Helping the suffering on a pilgrimage of joy, healing and peace
Please help those damaged in mind or body experience the joy and healing of Lourdes by sponsoring me in my thirteenth Great North Run on Sunday 11th September 2016.
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This is Future
Over the years I have developed my own unique life and financial planning process to help us sleep at night and live wholeheartedly by day. This is FUTURE.
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Florencetown: cycling through Chianti wine country
A day out from Florence’s heat and crowds spent cycling round Chianti country with Florencetown sampling the views, the wine estates, the wine and the food is something not to be missed
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Harvest time
The technology of the harvest may have changed. The sense of seasons and the mythology behind the harvest is still there.
Read More£10,000? Politicians just don’t listen
All May is doing from her London eyrie is creating division and conflict in this Northern outpost of her kingdom rather than coming up here, listening to her voters and putting in the hard work of trying to resolve our whole energy question in a calm, considered way that unifies, rather than divides.
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Taking stock
As I transition from an authorised financial planner into the deeper role of life and financial coach, it seems a good time to take stock.
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Review: The City of Mirrors
Left stunned, saddened and heartened by the culmination of this three-part reworking of a classic horror tale brought forward a few years into the future and spanning a further thousand years.
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