Live Life Differently

Differently exists to create simple, accessible easy to use systems for improving anyone’s quality of life. Rather than working as a momentary fad, our aim is to provide fundamental change to help us all live more enriched, contented lives.

Differently is all about:

• Living a happy fulfilled life
• Broadening our horizons
• Increasing the size of our comfort zones
• Increasing the enjoyment of challenge
• Strengthening communities and our part within them
• Overcoming fear and worry
• Improving our Quality of Life

The Differently Philosophy

Doing things differently makes us happy.

The best way to understand our approach is by use of an example:

Ever feel like you’re in a rut?

Some aspects of our society cause us to spend a lot of time chasing money to buy things that don’t really make our lives any more enjoyable beyond the short term excitement of the purchase or the thrill of the new. However, most of these things lose their novelty rapidly once we have them and have adapted to them.

Apart from any small implied ongoing status we might feel we derive from it, most of the excitement we get from this experience is in fact the experience of the new, making our brain work in a different way, albeit slightly. Our brains like this, the challenge makes us happy.

It's a familiar pattern but the thrill of the purchase usually wears off rapidly and so we often look for something else to purchase to recapture that excitement. We're using a familiar and unchallenging pattern of buying to access a way of giving our brains the thrill of a new experience and it costs us a fortune in the process.

Though it might seem like a contradiction our brains actually like a challenge, it’s why a lot of people like puzzles, it’s why we laugh at jokes. They are funny if they cause our brain to work in a different and unpredictable but safe way.

The ability to do things differently and make our brains work in a different way is accessible to us whenever we want.

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John Baker

John's entire career has been spent in the web solutions arena. He's a web designer, developer, entrepreneur and enthusiast with a keen eye for detail and a passion for making things better. He joined BT as a software developer in 2001 and has since worked on a large number of internal web-based projects. For the last five years he has been working on developing one of BT's most critical applications. In 2009 John took the decision to reduce his time commitment to BT in an effort to find an exciting new project to work on. A few months later he attended Startup Weekend London, and a few months later he co-founded Differently Ltd.

  

Glen Mehn

I am an analytical problem-solver with fifteen years’ experience managing teams in entrepreneurial and intrapreneurial environments, mainly turning business requirements into technical and operational reality. I am an incurable optimist who finds opportunity in every difficulty. I write wine, beer, and food reviews, eat good food, spend a lot of time with friends,try to keep up with old friends and coworkers, read voraciously, and generally try to keep busy. I spend a lot of time thinking about (and, hopefully, being moved by) beauty and elegance in the world, and how things can get better. I write about entrepreneurship in my (limited) spare time. I suffer from a fine wine habit.

  

Jamie Pyper

Jamie started as a journalist and then studied architecture before entering the high tech industry at the inception of handheld computing industry with Psion in London in it's early days in the mid 80s. Thus began a 16 year high-tech oddyssey. As a widely experienced generalist he went on to establish the West Coast US office in Silicon Valley and latterly came to the attention of Palm where in it's earlier stages he focused on business development and partnering, eventually returning to Europe as Director of Alliances. Midlife crisis and a desire to learn new things led Jamie to train as a Psychotherapist, Counsellor and as a Coach interested in all things developmental to do with organisations and individuals. Working as a therapist in private practice and also with a Business focused hat as an Entrepreneurial Coach & Consultant, Jamie currently lives in Brighton with his wife, two dogs and a motorbike.