I was standing by the bar in Soho theatre after our 2010 Social Media Week #techForGood event. ‘You need to find your WHY Bernie’, Julie says. Julie tells me about a new TED talk with over 200k views by Simon Sinek. Simon says we should start with ‘our WHY’. I ponder and […]
How Most Things Can Be Solved By Getting Up Early
I wrote this My Miracle Morning post back in 2016, it described the routine I’d designed and have kept to non-stop, I’ve been doing this for over seven years now. That post detailed a somewhat stern routine, I still wake up early but I’m much more chilled and productive. Most of the time I wake […]
7 Reasons Why I’m Not So Down With Coworking
I recently moved back into the Mainyard Studios family and seem to walk around thinking about how I feel now compared to how I felt when I was there before. Coworking got me into shape mentally and professionally, and the mental health thing is enormous. Here are few of the reasons that I’m not so […]
How I Failed At My Last 12 Week Goals
It is the last day of this round of 12 Week Year, and it has not gone at all to plan. The goals for this round were run 5 miles in 35 minutes, do 25 Pomodoro’s a week, and post to my website. I worked it all out and could not fail and then I […]
How To Make Your First Podcast Absolutely Rock!
Bernie, I want to start a podcast got any tips? I get asked every week about how to start a podcast, I’m not about to start a podcast production business but here is my take. At the end of this post is a list of websites and people I trust to teach you about podcasting, […]
How To Really Know What To Do As A Freelancer
These places are how I get my work done. Somewhere back in 2016, I made a firm choice to commit to only a few places, and this is how I really worked out what to do as a freelancer. I’d spend so much time looking at different blogs, videos and looking for the silver bullet. […]
How To Make Your Reader or Client the Hero of Your Story and NOT You!
Why you need to make your reader the hero of your story and NOT you! Look I’m just so great at this story stuff! You will want to know how great I am, so just read on… DOES NOT make you want to read on. Because it is all about me and does not solve […]
My Seven Week Writing Experiment
My Little Writing Experiment So I’m always writing every day. But still have some odd aversion to hitting publish, and there is always an internal debate about what to post first. Then I massage my work and wonder if it is for this person or that person. Then I’ll go and read a […]
Beating Writer’s Block With Nelson Mandela
So There I was… I wander into the Mainyard meeting room playing with my phone and hear a cough in the corner. I look up, and Mandela is sitting in a chair in the corner of the room doodling in a notebook. Want to chat? He asks. Er, yes, I have not seen you for […]
CTL ALT DEL – My 12 Week Year Reset
Where to begin? 2018 was the best year I have had for ages, but it was a year of reset, learning and working it out which was a new kind of pain for me. This blog is my way of kicking off my commitment to writing and sharing what I am working on and what […]
How To Build Trust With Your Coworking Space Website
How Much Money Are You Leaving On The Table? I see this a lot. And don’t worry it’s not just you and it’s not just the workspace industry. People dick around for ages looking for shortcuts, quick fixes and how ‘to get in front of as many people as possible.’ They hear how Richard Branson kicked […]
How To Kill Writer’s Block And Thrive
When you have to write a post, you’ll want to do everything but write that blog post. It is much easier to think about stuff than writing it. The main reason only a few people do well at blogging comes down to just a few people execute and post stuff. Everyone else licks blogging wounds, […]
How To Get Big Changes In Just 12 Weeks
Big Changes So I have been around a lot of change over the last few weeks, in those few weeks I have been looking for a way to deal with it all. Or instead, accept it and work out what to do with it, change happens all the time, and I’ve got better and working […]
Why You Need Other People As A Freelancer
My Head Never Stops, So I Have To To function each week I need to seek a balance of solitude and connection, so I need time to both calm my head and time to connect with peers. Too much time alone and I live in my head, too much time with peers and I end […]
How To Get Ultimate Productivity Flow With Zenkit and NotePlan
Productivity Flow with Zenkit and NotePlan I have tried so many combinations of apps, and the one that has worked the best is using Zenkit for project planning and NotePlan for daily to-dos and calendar. (You can get the desktop version of NotePlan as part of Settapp with access to over 50 other Mac Apps, no ads or […]
