About
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Welcome to Less Ordinary Living, a guide for people who believe that life is too short to be ordinary. The simple aim is to help you answer the question “how can I be remarkable?” both at work and in life.
There is an overwhelming volume of information out there on this subject . To save you time, Less Ordinary Living cuts through the confusion to select the freshest ideas and inspiration about three areas;
Work – how thrive at work and make a living doing something meaningful and fun
Entrepreneurship – how to build a remarkable and profitable business from your kitchen table
Living a remarkable life – how to balance success at work with living a remarkable and happy life
Less Ordinary Living is your guide to squeezing every last drop out of life.
If you’re ready to challenge yourself and:
- Find work that brings happiness, success and purpose
- Build a business that has maximum profit and impact
- Thrive – find motivation, focus, productivity and feel in control of life
- Make your mark on the world, build sustainable skills and improve the lives of others
There are a wealth of resources and ideas here for you to explore.
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There are guides to the best writing, thinking and resources out there on finding meaningful work, building a business from your kitchen table and living a great life.
If you get inspired and want to go deeper, we also offer coaching in each area to help accelerate your journey.
My Story
Hi, I’m Phil Bolton and welcome to Less Ordinary Living
I’m an entrepreneur, writer and coach based in London.
I worked for 10 years in professional services in the UK and San Francisco. On day 2, I knew accounting wasn’t for me, but it took ten years to figure out what was.
I took a big leap of faith by changing career and becoming a professional coach in 2007 and haven’t looked back.
Since then I’ve helped hundreds of people to find work that feels meaningful, start up businesses from their kitchen table and learn to balance professional success with happiness.
I’ve helped people with complete career changes, reinvent their current jobs, set up consultancies and profitable enterprises and learn to live life richly. I go to great lengths to move people along their journey and be remarkable.
I love my work.
I’m fascinated by understanding how to live a remarkable life and spend most of my spare time writing about it, reading about it and talking to amazing people about it. I believe that living in line with our values and building sustainable skills is the key to being happy and successful.
Less Ordinary Living is my guide to standing out from the crowd and making a difference. I cut through the endless information to bring you the freshest and most inspiring ideas on being remarkable.
In my spare time, I should enjoy paragliding and heli-skiing (I leave these to my clients). In fact, I’m an avid runner, the world’s happiest (and some would argue worst) golfer and love cryptic crosswords.
Themocracy
very interested in your website and information and so refreshed by your views and comments.
Im about to lauch a magazine for performers which is innovative and informative. I would love to liaise and publish some of your pieces with info on how people can see more.
Please email so we are in touch Michael Darton.
Thanks for the feedback Michael. Will be in touch.
Phil
Phil,
I love your blogs. They are full of life, hope, optimism. Keep up the good work.
Cheers
Milan
Phil, how do I find you on Stumble Upon? You are nowhere to be found…..:) Anyway, I hope that the linkback to one of your fab articles from my post today made it. Thank you for your blog!!!!