About

Welcome to One Short Life, my name is Shane and this blog is about living!

It is quite new, so expect plenty of adjustments and tweaks over the first couple of months. I also have some great ideas for tools and utilities that I would like to make to available. These will appear, in due course, as I finish building them. If you have any suggestions or requests for posts, please let me know.

If you are interested in the photos used on the site, a majority of them come from Encaptured Photography. You can find a selection of stock and fine-art photos there.

My first post explains a lot about why I started this site and how I realised that we need to make the most of life. Here it is…

The kick-off post

After a week cruising around in a classic VW camper, I was feeling pretty chilled out. My day job in marketing was nearly forgotten and I had a cool surfer calm over me (the camper added the surfer part!).  At the end of the holiday whilst shopping in London, I saw a cool T-shirt with the slogan – “Life: For a limited time only!” on the front and it made me pause for a moment as a number of questions came to mind:-

• How true is that?
• Am I making the most of life?
• What do I want to achieve in the short time I am here?
• Am I happy?
• Is my lifestyle focussed on living?
• What should I be doing?

It was almost a panic moment of deep realisation. I need to answer these questions and more!

In the past I have always tried to ensure that I have experiences to talk about later in life. A number of people will be used to me saying, “when I’m 80, will I regret not doing this?”. Seeing that t-shirt and thinking about my imminent return to the office made me realise I should use that mantra a lot more. With just ‘One Short Life’, surely the only important thing is making the most of it. This blog is about doing just that. It seems unlikely that I am the only person to have considered this so I want to share my ideas and learn from others.