Want to be more creative, productive and happy? Go for a walk.

The pier near my home in Deal, at sunrise

It’s December, close to the shortest day of the year in the UK.

I want to enjoy every bit of the light, so I am up on the seafront by 6.30am, walking along my stretch of the east Kent coast.

I pass the squat stone circle of Deal Castle, facing out across the Channel towards France…