12 Week Year


How Can We Navigate the Noise: Can Self-Awareness and Focus Guide Our Journey?
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How Can We Navigate the Noise: Can Self-Awareness and Focus Guide Our Journey?

A lot of time, more than I care to admit, goes into thinking about what to do and what might happen and too much of what I think might happen never happens. Which means there is a lot of not happening — happening. Last week, I shared Rachel Aaron's 2k—10k book in my weekly email to the Creator Write Club. Rachel is the author of 31 books at the time of writing. But a few years ago, when she had a baby, Rachel found that all her writing time had disappeared. She had a few precious hours wh
How To Slow Down To Speed Up Your Projects
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How To Slow Down To Speed Up Your Projects

So where were we? Last week I was crying onto the page that the world did not know where it was going. Mainly, what's also going on with my projects and plans. You can read or listen to it here. This week we stopped and looked where we are and rebooted with more focus and energy. We had to slow down to speed up with our plans. Personally, I had to remind myself where I'm going in the long term to connect with what is important right now. My 'Me Too' movement Thank you to all t
The Next Normal - Do We Just Get On With It?
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The Next Normal - Do We Just Get On With It?

How is 'the next normal' looking for you? As the lockdown rules change in the UK, how do you feel about the next few months? Are you stuck? What have you changed in your business model? Are you sick of video calls yet? This week I want to share about how three months of COVID lockdown is working out for me. It feels like an ongoing mix of triumphs and confusion, sitting down to write this to you got me in super reflective mood. But I'm worried about something. It does worry me how this
Why Is The '12-Week Year' So Good? Here's why!
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Why Is The '12-Week Year' So Good? Here's why!

Have you heard of the book 'The 12-Week Year'? No? Oh wow! It's so good! But, why is the '12-Week Year' so good? Well, you know when you have all these goals and ideas and need to get them in order? You want to make them happen. Your calendar is rolling around like a drunken sailor in a brothel with a credit card. Your head is about to burst with possibility and inspiration. And deep down inside, you know, you are going to struggle to make any other happen, even though you know it could.
How To Be More Productive (And Not Lose £191,553.45 Like Me)
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How To Be More Productive (And Not Lose £191,553.45 Like Me)

Two Simple Productivity Tips. In this post, I'll share two things that have helped my productivity over the last few years, and they are NOT apps or gadgets. Are you always wondering where your time goes? Are you looking for an 'edge'? You can get helpful actionable direction like this in my 'Sunday Scenario email' where I document my progress, triumphs and mistakes as a freelance consultant to the coworking industry. It is super fun being a hands-on practitioner who is developing and worki
How To Get Big Changes In Just 12 Weeks
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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
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Find Your Voice, My Plan For The Next 12 Months

In this post, I’m going to share with you the next 12 months of my podcast plan for my website, before I am even ready to go. Even just writing that hurts. The next 12 months are about “how to find your voice” something I have been procrastinating on for years. Leading with a “find your voice” topic is hard for me. I always think I should have 'found my voice’ before talking about how you might find yours. But both of those are wrong. Building The Plane All the people I deeply admire and
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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!
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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'
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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
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Bernie’s Newswire – Where I Went Wrong This Week

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Rescue Time, takes a cigarette

I have really got into tracking my time in the last few months. It is out of frustration rather than amazingness needing to hand in time sheets. I don’t like trading time for money, it is dumb in this day and age and even dumber if you are a freelancer or indie worker, but that is another blog. If you are wondering about the David Bowie picture, well I love him and need to get a refinance in as often as I can! But read on there is some blogging gold coming up. I think. Time Taking. I have be