November 2024
April 2021
- Disagree more
- What works for you
- Other people's shoulders
- Don't stop starting
- Starting
- Other people's productivity
- Gratitude when times are hard
March 2021
November 2020
October 2020
March 2019
May 2018
March 2018
February 2018
- Why your stories matter
- Attention to detail
- Universal interference
- The first punch of resistance
- Creating habits
- Finding space
- Moneyball, Michael Lewis
- The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood
January 2018
- Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse
- Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
- The Subtle Art of Not Giving A F*ck, Mark Manson
- The Comedians, Graham Greene
- A fresh start to 2018
December 2016
May 2016
- Five things about CF: #5 Why I'm grateful to have a life-shortening illness
- Five Things About CF: #4 Medical teams are awesome beyond measure
- Five Things About CF: #3 It's not just physical
- Five Things About CF: #2 I can't meet my friends
- Five Things About CF: #1 I'm not cured
- Another shot at awesome
- Start now
January 2016
November 2015
March 2015
- Twice in a week
- Au revoirs
- Flexible working
- Media tarting
- Exploring new areas
- The call
- Old haunts
- Mums
- Old friends are the best friends
- Right reactions
- Creative win
- Sunset
- My new work space
- Coffee with a mentor
- Back to my roots
February 2015
January 2015
- Lessons from a month of meditation
- In the days that followed
- Why I love stories
- Pressing reset
- Habit Change: Meditation
December 2014
July 2014
- The Pros and Cons of Transplant Week
- Speak with passion, people will listen
- Stop waiting for perfect
June 2014
January 2014
December 2013
November 2013
September 2013
July 2013
June 2013
February 2013
January 2013
December 2012
November 2012
- When September Ends
- A Very Important Day
- Don't Live Life On Pause
- The Joys of Long-Term Planning
- 5 Simple Lessons from 6 Weeks of Change
- Knowing Myself In All My Failing Glory
October 2012
- Nanowrimo (or Why Motivated Inspiration Is Never Bad)
- Adapt and Thrive
- Do Less
- Make Better Choices
- Why The Source Inspiration Doesn't Matter
- It's Coming
- It Could Be Worse
- Permission and Forgiveness
September 2012
- Fighting Through It: 5 Steps To Getting Back On Track
- Perfection is Pointless: Just Be Better
- How To Learn What To Worry About
- Downton Abbey and the Ridiculousness of Life
- Could $100 Change Your Life?
- You Can't Force It: Five Ways to Encourage Inspiration
- 5 Things Everyone Should Know About Italy
- Joy in the Happiness of Others
- The Paralympics: Learning How To Lose
August 2012
- Adventure doesn't have to equal 'crazy'
- Rough and Smooth
- Putting Yourself Out There
- The Importance of Dreams
- Getting Slow and Fat, plus a Crushing Realisation
- On Swearing and Damnation
- The Ins and Outs (and Lefts and Rights) of Secret Roading
- Top Travel Tips from a Very Happy Honeymoon
- Flights, economy and postponed blog posts
July 2012
- Weekend Inspiration EpVIII: Jonah Lomu, Impossible is Nothing
- In Praise of Nothingness
- Weekend Inspiration EpVII: 100 Miles, 24 Hours
- Guest Post: How The Fear Of Loss Inspires Fearless Actions - Ivan Hollingsworth
- Two Weeks Off, But Don't Go Away
- This Time Next Week I’ll Be Married
June 2012
- Weekend Inspiration EpVI: Save the Shoes
- Embrace Randon, Be Spontaneous, Grasp Life
- Step Off The Platform: a lesson on battling fear
- Weekend Inspiration EpV: How Bad Do You Want It?
- Weekend Inspiration EpIV: The Power of Kids
- How do you keep up in an ever-faster world?
- Weekend Inspiration EpIII: Never, Ever Give Up
May 2012
- A wonderful weekend to start a new decade of life
- Weekend Inspiration EpII: A note on dedication
- 30 Things I've Learned in 30 Years
- Weekend Inspiration
- Why being passive gets you nowhere (or why you should take action today)
- Getting up and going. Again.
- CF Week: Don't Just Inhale, Make Sure You LIVE
April 2012
- My biggest mistake (or why life is like an encyclopedia)
- A case-study in getting started: 363 days to go
- Why knowing yourself is the first step to achieving your goals
- A little inspiration: What are you going to start today?
- Value everything: you never know whose lives you will touch
- Infinite Possibilities
March 2012
- Finding the next path at an empty crossroads
- Getting life back on track: accentuate the positive
- My personal 5-step strategy for coping with unexpected change
- The growth of SmileThroughIt
January 2012
- The wisdom of children
- How specific should we make our goals?
- The Great British Pantomime and why I love it
December 2011
November 2011
October 2011
- Deepening Zen
- A new normality
- External motivation
- Stepping up
- Setting records
- Significant Insignificance: Using others' good fortune to improve your life
- Remarkable women, remarkable friends, remarkable lives
- Old-fashioned, no-perks crowdfunding
- Ducking What Matters
September 2011
July 2011
June 2011
- An Old Favourite: Choose Your Battles
- Make Your Mistakes Great
- Everything is Exposed
- Perception is Everything
- Fake It? No, You Just Make It.
- On The Absence of Fear
- Stop Looking To The Future, Start Living Your Life
- New Beginnings
- Treating Triumph And Disaster Just The Same
- Creating Off The Blog
- Suck It Up And Move Right Along
- Can Creativity Be Forced?
- What Does It Mean To Create?
May 2011
- Here's to 30 Days of New Creation – Are You In?
- The Saga Concluded
- The Saga Continued
- Normal Service Will Resume Shortly
- A Pain In The Neck
- Get The Best From Acknowledging Your Market Position
- 3 Weeks to 3 Peaks: What I've Learned About Myself
- Freelancers: Learn To Take A Break
- Doing My Bit
- 4 Weeks to Gone
April 2011
- Feeling Isn't The Same As Being
- Quieting The Creative Brain
- 7 Weeks To Go: It Just Got Real [3 Peaks]
- The Indie Film Hub Is A Poke
- https://smilethroughit.com/1051-2/
- Focus On Something New To Enhance Your Previous Focus
- It's Easier To Do Than To Seek Forgiveness For Not Doing
- For All The Mothers In The World
March 2011
- How Having A Hottie In Your Pool Helps Motivation
- Enhance Your Creative Productivity With Your Own Inspiration Pathway
- Novelty Is Useless If It Doesn't Do What's Promised
- Get Productive By Getting Away and Disconnecting
- Learn to Put Yourself Out There (and Poke The Box)
- Why Your Next Film Should Be 'The Hobbit'
- The Truth About Social Media 'Investment'
- Know What You're Making (and Who You're Making It For)
- The Lowdown on Communication
- Get Away Daily To Increase Creativity
- Know Thyself
- Unexpected Benefits
- Pick of the Web: Kicking Fear's Ass
- Lent for Creatives: Giving up the Fear of Failure
- Pick of the Web: BOMB IT iPhone app
- Why Cheating Isn't Always Bad
- The Lowdown on Email Marketing
- Get off your @rse
- Why I Do It
February 2011
- How Looking Back Prevents Moving Forward
- In Praise of Real Life
- In Praise of Paper
- PotW: Asymmetrical Mass Favours in Crowdfunding
- The Single Step
- Never a Wasted Moment
- Product Placement: Tart Tool?
- The Lowdown on Productivity Tools
- Stirring Debate to Fuel Creativity
- Striving for 'Better' not 'Bigger'
- Remembering Innovation
- Finding the Kernel of Positivity
- Pick of the Web: "Acknowledge People's Unhappiness"
- Staying Regular
- Pick of the Web: "Building an Audience"
- Should We Aspire To "Event TV"?
- Pause to reflect
- Nike Had It Right
- Pick of the Web: 'Pitching Star Trek'
January 2011
- Embrace the Slump
- Most popular post: w/c 24 Jan 2011
- The Surprising Joys of Winging It
- Pick of the Web: What It Takes
- Commitment over Decisions
- Pick of the Web: 'In Search of a Domino Street Team'
- Why I'm Right
- Don't Start On Monday
- Pick of the Web: 'The Secrets of The Secret'
- Pursuing Creativity
- Pick of the Web: 'Cashing the Check'
- Scheduled Misery
- Finding your Productivity Peak
- Pick of the web: "Fort Kickass"
- Selfish Selflessness
- Pick of the web: '5 Tips for Social Media Success'
- Crowdfunding Best Practice
- Too early
- Meetings in London
- First 2011 Harefield Trip
- 1000 Steps
- Ink, don't Think
- Insomnia reigns!
- New Year's Day
- The Archive
- The Return
December 2010
- Living Rich
- Plan of Action
- A Writer's Goldmine
- Why we do it
- The Christmas Limbo
- Striking a balance
- Social Media #Fail
- The Yin/Yang of Reel/Real World Friendships
- THOR Trailer
- MONSTERS
- Social Media Karma
- A world of (sleepless) excitement
November 2010
- London Screenwriters' Festival Video Blog - Day 3
- London Screenwriters' Festival Day 2
- London Screenwriters' Festival Day 1 Video Blog
- The London Screenwriters Festival 2010 From Behind The Camera
October 2010
- The London Screenwriters' Festival 7 Day Countdown Lowdown: Day 7
- The London Screenwriters Festival 7 Day Countdown Lowdown: Day 6
- The London Screenwriters Festival 7 Day Countdown Lowdown: Day 5
- The London Screenwriters Festival 7 Day Countdown Lowdown: Day 4
- The London Screenwriters Festival 7 Day Countdown Lowdown: Day 3
- The London Screenwriters Festival 7 Day Countdown Lowdown: Day 2
- The London Screenwriters Festival 7 Day Countdown Lowdown: Day 1
- Adventures in Editing
September 2010
July 2010
June 2010
May 2010
- The Lowdown: Blogging
- Distribution 2010 Part III: The Guests
- Distribution 2010 Part II
- Distribution 2010 Part I
- I can explain!
April 2010
- The Lowdown: Twitter
- The Guerilla Film Makers Pocketbook
- Feedback Part II: The Production Office
- Feedback
- The Last Two Weeks: Part IV
- The Last Two Weeks: Part III
- The Last Two Weeks: Part II
- The Last Two Weeks: Part I
- Best of British?
- Writing in a #Frenzy
March 2010
- Working methods & productivity
- Another debut
- A special day lost
- olilewington.co.uk
- Bringing two together
- A writer's dilemma
- A new outlet
- Get organised
February 2010
- How to succeed: Fail
- Crowdfunding film
- Preditors Wanted
- Best Picture to the best picture
- A new beginning
- Onwards and upwards from here
January 2010
December 2009
November 2009
October 2009
- The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus
- Jonathan Pryce
- Willows begins...
- The Gig
- Updates soon
- Shopping & Busking
September 2009
August 2009
July 2009
June 2009
May 2009
- The Military's on board, now we need you
- Remembrance is here
- Turning 27
- Minor delays
- Busy weekend in Manchester
- It starts...
- Change is coming...
- Returning heroes
April 2009
- Seriously, this one's good.
- Back in the chair
- Read-through and rewrites
- First Aid Part II
- First night
- Back at The Royal
- I've succumbed
- The best worst film ever
- New project, new restaurant
- Recovery
- Donor Day
March 2009
- He's coming home...
- Multi-media 2
- Multi-media
- New avenues
- Day Off - for real
- 4 out of 4
- The ultimate acting Masterclass
- I've got sunshine
- Watching the Watchmen
- 1 in 25 Ball
- More things and stuff
- Bath and other miscellaneous places
February 2009
January 2009
- My First DVD
- Chairman
- Bradford and London
- Oxford and Bradford
- Catch-ups and legals
- New term training
- Back to work
- Saints go down again
- Godsons and the Doctor
- Inkheart
- Che
December 2008
- New Year's Wii
- Godsons and Guitar Heroes
- Sales, shopping and meals with mates
- Incoming changes
- Home again
- Quins vs Leicester - Twickenham
- Boxing Day swimming
- Christmas!
- Tears on the Eve
- Sebby G & Wii
- Godsons, theme parks and baby cuddles
- A blog to avoid controversy
- An eye-opening day
- My friend Sally
- New, old and quick
- It's a Wonderful Life
- 5k...walk
- Sebastian George
- Go go go Joseph!
November 2008
October 2008
- Pitch Up 2008
- What is, is.
- The first step
- Scouting
- Reflections on stupidity
- Cohens and Dons
- https://smilethroughit.com/389-2/
- Tough week
- Double shifts and missing leads
- Writing apace
- Two in One
- Today's best piece of geography
- Opening minds
September 2008
August 2008
- Striding forwards
- The benefits of the Real world
- More birthdays
- The other side
- The perils of family parties
- More of stuff
- The Great British Duck Race
- Awesome birthday - and not even mine!
- Today's best piece of Olympic Commentary
- Going old-school
- Contrast
- Better than average
- Stratford-on-Avon
July 2008
- Worst show in the world
- Not dead
- The Best and the Worst?
- Meeting the director
- Back in the gym
- Oli: Producer
- Untouched begins
- Cabaret Favourites
- Annual Review
June 2008
- Moving onwards
- Two years on
- The Ball
- Ipswich and Suffolk Press Ball
- Water baby
- Monkey
- Ticking over
- Setting the pace
- Incarceration
May 2008
- 3-day B'day
- Escape
- CMV + EBV = Fed up Oli
- CMV, 3 small letters = 1 big infection
- Jinx?
- There is no sense
April 2008
- Who'd be a parent?
- Well, something's wrong
- Flashbacks (of many kinds)
- Where did all the babies come from?
- I am chilling out - honest
- Over the line (Tresco Part 2)
- Fighting the eyelids (Tresco Part 1)
- A glimpse of the old life
- A blog of broken promises
March 2008
- Ipswich
- Brum brum, stop.
- Happy day of random
- Rescue missions and lack of sleep
- Durham 2 Day 2
- Four months ago today...
- Back to the North
- A little bit of rest does you good
- The other Other Boleyn (and hospital)
- Incoming....
- Durham Day 3
- Durham Day 2
- Durham Day 1
February 2008
- Getting the word out
- My Blueberry Nights
- Rambo
- The longest day
- Amy Whoshouse?
- I'm on for the gym
- More family firsts
- Manic week
- Family firsts
- Ballet? Me?
- Day out to Juno
- Quick clinic round-up
- Family from afar
- Cloverfield and sea-sickness
- Pancakes
- Bringing the party
January 2008
- Sore feet
- The Loop
- Pneumonia dis-organised
- Organising Pneumonia
- Erm...Again...(Update)
- Home is where the everything is
- Nostalgia I'd rather have avoided
- The best thing about speed bumps...
- All roads have speedbumps
- There, back, there, back
- Lazy sunday...ish...
- All go but nothing doing
December 2007
- Home Sweet Home
- Still up but ouch
- Anglia News Tonight (Friday) [Updated!]
- Just a major minor setback
- Christmas blues
- From Keith
- Merry Christmas one and all
- First day back
- Blimey - I'm back
- Oli's coming home!
- Next stop, Room 4
- D'oh
- Childish as I am...
- Top of the world!
- Our Day Out
- Interesting times
- Step by Step
- Doctor's Orders
- Happy Days, Worried Nights
- Oli gets wireless (or near enough)
- A message from your host
- Happy Days
- Oli does the truffle shuffle
- Just the details
- Superman: The Return
November 2007
- URGENT UPDATE
- I want to ride my bicycle, I want to ride my bike...
- Big smiles all round
- Steady Progress
- Super teeny weeny short
- Keeping it brief
- Seeing things
- Breakfast
- Superman
- Contact details
- At the end of the day
- 1st day in ITU
- 5th time lucky!
- Lost: please find
- One small step
- The going gets tough
- Totalled
- Writer's Strike
- Specialists are good
- Blog Evolution
- Worried, relieved.
- Cold
- It's OK, I'm OK
- Bump
- Party!
- It really works!
October 2007
- Pootling along nicely
- First Draft Finished
- Today makes no sense
- Let's welcome...
- More IVs, but it's OK
- Coming? Going?
- Good news/Other news
- Tenterhooks
- HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MAMA!!
- Wonder of wonders
- Why can't the day begin at 6pm?
- All Spruced Up
- Losing the me
September 2007
- It's all gone dark
- First Cut done
- I remember learning curves now
- Compare my rude bits
- I wouldn't read this
- Not a proper post
- Still here... honest.
- The dude at the window
- Back on track
- That's settled
- Headaches: The Return
August 2007
- Hyper-something, hypo-something
- Something in the water...
- Stuffing knocked out
- Sunday I'll fly away...
- Training 3
- A week in revue
- I love Studio 60
- Going Postal
- Training 2
- Training Part 1
- Mañana Mañana
- Still going...
- Another late-night Harefield excursion
- The big, shiney, happy birthday blog
- Step forward fitter me
- 94%
- Nothing at all
- A Great Day
- A Good Day
July 2007
- Not angry any more
- You wouldn't like me when I'm angry
- Third time (un)lucky
- Foot in Mouth
- My mini library
- Weekend
- I said that
- Dropped
- Media Whirlwind
- Clean hair, no breath
- A desire to do
- Thick and fast
- I'm ok, really
- Annual Review
- British Rail Sunday
- Hooray, not rubbish!
- Brum
- Look East (at me!)
- National Transplant Week
- The Black Dog
- Pointy hat with a "D"
- It all started with a sniffle
May 2007
- 25's up
- It's finally here...
- Rolling again
- Jinx?
- (Whisper it) I'm writing
- No cards, please, it's my birthday
- Is that a corner Allied are turning?
- My life in a bottle
- Sympathise and duck
- Maxwell - at last, good drama!
- All right, I bottled it
- At least I've got local News
- Lost plot (and momentum?)
April 2007
March 2007
- But I just want to have fun!
- What a difference...
- Who am I?
- Back on the Inside
- Swinging
- Stillness and Bookcases
- Stupid viruses
- Other things
- Dot com
- A new ball rolling
- Where did all the steam go?
- Wallowing
- Recovery Road
- Oh what a night
- On me
- The ball keeps rolling
February 2007
- What a day!
- Pace gathering
- Steady as she goes
- Better day
- BUT...
- Rubbish
- Trying hard
- A strange yo-yo
- Frowning through it
- Nothing happens
- Note to self
- Saturday Night Live
- Bloody rollercoasters
- Something always comes good
- The big IV slowdown
- Radio 4 no less...
- Laughter for Life is ON SALE!
January 2007
- Worse than expected
- Whoops, dropped the ball
- Doesn't take much
- Super Tuesday
- Just plain happy
- Not as knackered
- Barrels of Laughs
- Productivity
- Home sweet home
- Back and back
- Emily and Watchdog
- Preparation is the key
- Back on track
- Weird reactions
- Focus your prayers (UPDATED Fri 5/1 AM)
- Writing and watching
- By George he's got it!
December 2006
- Border Attack
- Progress - even with 02
- A Christmas in keeping
- Resting
- Flying brothers, complaining lungs
- Told me so
- Not entirely successful...
- Inevitably...
- Addictive personalities
- Writing my wrongs
- Plagiarism: my new best friend
- Busy mind, settled body
- Improvement continues, support unbelievable
- Forward, onward, upward
- I'm learning
- Still adapting
- Allied Forces Rage (Updated)