Author: Ainle

Made in Belfast, residing in Cork. Human being, strength coach, Gaeilgeoir, sometimes on the telly, like to play hurling, reader, food enjoyer, among other things :-)

Building a Business Without Selling My Soul: Part 1

When I first opened ACLAÍ back in 2013, after scraping together the capital required to open a gym from savings, loans, and selling my car, I kind of felt that the hardest part was going to be getting the doors opened on day one. Alas, I was mistaken. In reality, the most fun part of the early days was shopping for fancy gear, kitting out the gym floor, and imagining how busy things were going to be once those doors swung open on day one. The real difficulty came in the form of figuring out exactly what kind of a training facility was to be, what services we would offer (and which we would not offer), and the figuring out how to get people to know that we existed!

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Travelling With Carry On Luggage Only

In recent times, I have taken to having a one-purpose backpack that does the job for going to work, a weekend away, going to training, or longer trips abroad. In my eagerness to have a one-for-all backpack, last year I had everything from my laptop, go-pro, ipad, phone, speaker, clothes, shoes, and training equipment in this bag of tricks. All very well until someone robbed the bag and all its contents and left me with very little technology!

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The Science Behind Why We Think We Are Great

While listening to one of my favourite podcasts, ‘This American Life’, I learned of an interesting theory named “The Dunning–Kruger effect” which is basically a is a cognitive bias in which relatively unskilled persons suffer illusory superiority, mistakenly assessing their ability to be much higher than it really is.

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