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New Challenge: Man Vs Jumping Out Of a Moving Plane

Hey Since I left the UK a year and a half ago and completed the biggest challenge of all, (getting the hell out of the place, to travel this big and sexy world) – my challenges against the clock have been a little shy. Man Vs Clock is an accountability tool for me and a [...]

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Challenge Complete: The Quest From Scrawny To Brawny – Results and Musings

Challenge Complete: The Quest From Scrawny To Brawny – Results and Musings

Last November, whilst living in Cambodia – I decided to be nice and finally meet up with an eager fellow Englishman who had been stalking the shit out of me since the birth of Man Vs Clock. Apparently the artist formally known as ‘Gonzo,’ the anti-travel blogger was “just passing by” after spending half a [...]

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Minimalist Travel Cult – Why I Renounced My Faith.

Back in May last year, I joined the cult that is ‘minimalist travel’ and decided to see what life would be like travelling with carry-on luggage only, as a three month challenge (and ended up doing five). Like any other religious organisation – I became indoctrinated quickly into the regime and committed my allegiance to [...]

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Motivational Monday: Why You Should Learn To Be an Arsehole (At The Right Times).

Newsflash: The cliché is true – nice guys really do finish last. I know it because I’ve been there and I have the footprints on my back to prove it. “So what are you saying? We should be mean to everyone who we come into human contact with, instead of being polite and lovely,” I [...]

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Motivational Monday: In a Parallel Universe, You’re a Fucking Superstar!

The concept of a parallel universe is an interesting concept brought together by quantum physicists. I’ll do my best to explain in my own words what it’s all about in my short video above, for those not initiated with the meaning.  In a parallel universe, you don’t desperately seek counsel in others and you take action [...]

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Motivational Monday: 2 Girls, One Cup and One Less Facebook Friend. Do You Seek To Be Offended?

A couple of weeks ago I received a comment on an old Facebook video that was recorded four years ago. The video was recorded by my old boss – it was a visual chronicle of my fastidious response to my first ever viewing of the viral internet video umm…sensation that is; “Two Girls, One Cup.” [...]

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Motivational Monday: Rip Off That “Busy” Badge of Honour, Get Over Yourself, and Enjoy The Present (But Don’t Put Out That Fire!)

Hello Mr/Mrs Busypants! Would you mind taking a few moments to read this? Yeah, I’m talking to you. Oh, but I guess I’m wasting my (and your precious time) asking for your attention because you’re sooo fucking busy, that even finishing this paragraph will collide with your hectic work schedule and shake your world up [...]

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Motivational Monday: How to Win Friends, Influence People (and Get Free Ice Creams).

Motivational Monday: How to Win Friends, Influence People (and Get Free Ice Creams).

After recently spending a week with my friend, I started to suspect that aliens had abducted his soul overnight, or that he had joined a secret cult during my absence. He wasn’t his usual antagonistic, argumentative self. He was expressing the perfect etiquette of the world’s greatest social butterfly – taking an interest in other [...]

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Motivational Tuesday!! Are You Competing With The One Person You Should Be Competing With?

(This post is a day late because of a mixture of bad wifi, and me totally taking the size of Vietnam from north to south for granted)…. Four years ago on a lively mid-August night in Las Vegas, a battered and bruised Richard Hatton felt something for the first time in his glitzy 13 year boxing [...]

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One Year on The Road – The Loneliest, Happiest and Most Exciting Year of My Life

One Year on The Road – The Loneliest, Happiest and Most Exciting Year of My Life

On November 20th, 2010 – Man took on a clock counting down from one year – with the aim to leave England, debt-free of £16, 000 and to fly on a one-way ticket to an indefinite adventure around the world, before the clock ticked down to zero. On November 13th, 2011 – Man beat the [...]

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