Michael Brooks

Michael Brooks: a website developer and creator.

  • A full week of work starts

    A full week of work starts

    For us office workers, today is our first full week back. Like many around this time of year, I felt pretty apprehensive about going back. It was so nice having a break from work and they always go way too fast. Christmas and New Year never last as long as you’d hope and everything just goes back to normal.

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  • My fundraiser for Mental Health has started

    My fundraiser for Mental Health has started

    This is just a quick blog post to let you know I will be starting my first fundraiser for mental health. It will be a Crossfit workout called Becky and all donations will be going to Mind charity. I hope you are excited as I am regarding this event, and will join me as the event starts. When more details arise, I will be sure to update you all.

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  • 3 years at CrossFit

    3 years at CrossFit

    A memory popped up on Facebook today and it’s reminded me why I joined Crossfit. I initially joined because I was unhappy with my weight. I got to 16st (~101kg) and I was feeling slightly unhappy with my weight gain. It’s not a huge amount of weight compared to other’s, but it was my heaviest weight. Also, posture was a biggie for me, I have Anterior Pelvic Tilt (or APT) and I walked with a bounce.

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  • The demise of social networks

    For what seems like forever, I wanted to create my very own social networking site. At first, it was going to compete with Facebook, have reactions (before they invented it), and use open technologies. I started creating something with my custom PHP, I created the ability to register, log in and add friends. It was going great and my friends were playing around with it. A few bugs were being reported which I would try to fix, and a few months later, I got bored.

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  • 🏃‍♂️ 23-mile hike for Macmillan Cancer 💨

    🏃‍♂️ 23-mile hike for Macmillan Cancer 💨

    On the 15th of June, I will be taking part in a 23-mile hike for Macmillan Cancer with a few colleagues from work, and I am super excited to be taking part in this. We will all be training together, but I’m not too worried. I’ve been doing CrossFit for over 3 years and feel I have it in the bag. 💪

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  • My 2 year journey at Lightfoot

    My 2 year journey at Lightfoot

    My journey at Lightfoot all started because of my struggles with a previous company. I had been given a 3-month trial and during this trial, my work was struggling. The company really liked me as a person and wanted to see me succeed there. They extended my trial by another 3 months and by the end of it, I was still struggling to keep up. I then had to start looking for a position elsewhere, and that’s where I found Lightfoot.

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  • Positivity can’t be kept daily

    Positivity can’t be kept daily

    This one may seem like a bit of a downer. Positivity can’t be kept 100% of the time, and today is like this for me. I felt a bit down and I can’t figure out why. It could be because I had to go to work during a snow day. It could also be the fact that there wasn’t much snow here. I absolutely love the snow, and I love playing in it. Call me a big kid, ask me if I’m going to grow up. The truth is, it’s a magical time that I don’t experience enough.

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  • Happy new year 2019

    I just want to use this post to wish everyone a happy new year. I hope it’s enjoyable, prosperous and is everything you could hope for.

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  • Happy new year 2019

    I just want to use this post to wish everyone a happy new year. I hope it’s enjoyable, prosperous and is everything you could hope for.

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  • A year review 2018

    After reading Tim Ferriss’ year review, I decided to do something similar. I couldn’t go through my calendar as I never use one for events (maybe I should start next year).

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