BLOG This Is The Ultimate Productivity Tip For You (And It's Free) Last week I shared about the one easy thing you can do to make you come alive, and this has been drilling my head all week. What Is The One Thing? The one thing is 'stop complaining'. But it is more than that; it is 'go on a no complaint diet' an idea I picked up in 'The Power Of No' by Claudia and James Altucher. I got this book as soon as it hit the shelves in 2014, I used to say yes to everything, and it was killing me. Since I first had a go at this in 2015, I have come to think it is the
BLOG One Easy Thing You Can Do To Come Alive I've always toyed with the idea of making a T-Shirt with the question 'do you even know you are alive?' But am less angry with the world these days. As I look at the mental health of the world and my mental health I am sure being mad at people is counter productive. For example, the days I am pissed off with #Babybernie are the least constructive of his life. The best days are where I make an effort to ask questions, rather than issue demands, complaints and parking tickets. These are the da
BLOG Never Let Me Go Summer 2oo2 I was sitting in a cafe bolted to the side of a mountain in Greece, I was looking into the darkness of the night sky. I turned to Roy and asked him what the secret of his many years of marriage was. He stirred his cappuccino and replied he got a strong sense early on that Margret was never going to let it fail. This conversation was about 15 years ago, at that time they'd been married about 4o years. At the time I was in halfway between shell-shocked and reflective. My mother h
BLOG Now I Think I Know What I Am Doing Somewhere earlier in this blog, I wrote about 12 Weeks being agony and often this makes me think what was happening before. Life has never been so good. Hang on, stick with me. You won't need a sick bucket for this bit. It is just not so manic now. 'Manic' is a word used out of context; I have a few close friends who are bipolar and manic has a whole different meaning for them. Where I grew up in Essex people would often say 'Mate. It's £ucking MANIC down at Lakeside Shopping Centre today!
BLOG I'm scared it won't be as good in real life as it's in my head All I ever wanted was a blog, well a website with a blog. I LOVE blogs and people who blog. I read daily and lap it up and I write daily and have often gone through stages of publishing something daily. Not a 'publish daily' daily blog, rather between projects running alongside each other. For a couple of years now I have produced a podcast weekly in the same fashion. But all I see are projects on my computer that are getting ready to go, they are almost there and it drives me insane. I spe
BLOG Let Go And Get Over It Hello and welcome to this week's theme ‘dumb things people say to you when you are depressed’. And a few suggestions on how to get over it. With the best intention people say 'Why are you depressed?' and 'What you need to do is get over it.' A mate of mine was in a bit of a pickle with their business and decided to ‘let go’ as in ‘knowing when to quit’. Quit as in the book ‘The Dip’ - a very short read and well worth the time. Please don't confuse ‘let go’ and ‘giving up’. They let go and stuff
BLOG This Year Something Was Different I dread this time of year, I was bracing myself to plunge back into a God-forsaken pit of despair and depression and it never arrived. Every day I have woken up and double checked I am in the right life, right family and right blog.
BLOG Simon Sinek, Your Phone And Deep Work You would be right if you were thinking I leapt into the 12 Week Year with HUGE success goals, money goals and I-need-a-new-iPad-Pro goals. I ended up with less money than I started, but I carved a solid path out as a freelance writer and know what I need to do daily. Time spent on courses in Fizzle, Creative Class, Collaboration Superpowers and Rainmaker deeply helped define this. Where To Start? Have you ever thought about something so much that when the time comes you are paralysed? It'
BLOG Trello repeating tasks: How to remove them A few week's ago, Trello announced a new card repeater power-up. The power-up allows you to set repeating tasks up so that they automatically appear in Trello when you need them. The Card Repeater function turns out to be pretty difficult to turn off. I've found a small trick that makes it much easier - read on to find out more. Trello's Card Repeater is a life changer We got very excited when the Card Repeater power-up was released - and we even wrote about it on this very blog! I've since
BLOG The End Of My First 12 Week Year On Tuesday we start our Working Out Loud (WOL) group at our coworking space, it's also the end of my first 12 Week Year. Oddly, I feel an imposter when I write about "productivity" part of me wants to tell you 'I did the 12 Week Year now have a million dollar start-up and run a marathon daily.' Those of you who run marathons or become parents know things don't happen in the flick of a switch, so I don't know why I think you might expect me to turn life around in 12 Weeks. It's tempting to jok
BLOG My Miracle Morning I have been working on this 'Miracle Morning' thing for ages and now I have it down to a fine art. I know the title sucks and sounds like a coked up TGI Friday's waitress called Polly Anna but it works. Every day I wake up between 5am and 6am, more often 5am and before anything can happen I start listening to an audio version of 12 Week Year, then from there I leap into the kitchen and down a pint of cold water. After that, I make a Yerba mate (Argentine tea), pop my vitamins and medication th
BLOG Trello Tip: Remove cover images to make your board easy to digest This post is in direct response to Jo Sayer of English-language teaching company ELTJam. When we asked Jo what he wanted people to know most about Trello, this was his response: I wish people knew that you could remove the first uploaded image from being the ‘cover’ of the card. Fine if you want an image, but annoying that they’re often left there as default and make the board all hard to digest! Well, Jo - good news! We're helping you spread the word! For those not in the know: When you atta
