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 I am learning in 2019. I was completely dithering around getting started so decided to eat my own dog food and ‘just do it’. Maybe you don’t know that I am part of a podcast about writing and have organised a weekly writing group in London f
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 off his empire with a magazine at school and now look for how to do the same trick for their coworking space. Even though they run a coworking space in 2018 and Richard was a 16 year old at a public s
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, looks for SEO tricks and talks about blogging, without doing much blogging. And that included me. I found it very hard to write and post stuff, but every time I ship a blog post a good thing happens. Someti
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 out how to harness the energy and indecision that comes with it. It still affects me, but I can recognise the different types of emotions and energy coming towards me and either discard them or embrace them. This time I stalled out for
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 up building a tower of ideas that go nowhere. A Typical Day For My Head Yesterday I read an Aeon magazine article about Nazi troopers being drunk while massacring people in towns on their quest for ethnic cleansing. When I woke up this mor
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 in-app purchases.) How does this work? I am going to give this a ten-year limit; I have been playing with gadgets for years so we could be here all day. Around 2009 I was early
How To Develop An Epic Content Creation Process
At our weekly London Bloggers MeetUp, I keep getting asked how I write a blog post, and I never have an answer. I can’t bullshit my answer anymore. I realized that even after all this time I don't have a system or process for writing a blog post. The same goes for building a podcast episode. I have got together with my freelancing coworking buddies Cat and Trevor to sort this out on our the OuiShare Radio Write Club podcast here. Stop Reading And Pondering Even after all the productivityOK, Let's Get Going!
OK, Let's get going! It is high time to reboot my weekly newsletter, I know you have not called to ask me where it is, but it works so well for keeping connected with you, I miss it. And You. I like the way you hit reply, ask me questions and, as much as I hate using email, I love reading your answers to this email. Like hit reply and tell me ‘What are you reading this month?’ Getting Knocked Sideways I have a tremendous urge to moan on about where I have been, but I’ll spare you that. The