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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Bernie’s Newswire – Where I Went Wrong This Week
You Can’t Build A Reputation On What You Are Going To Do – Henry Ford Ok, I am about to enter week seven of my 12 Week Year and the needle is certainly moving more and more each week. Think about it how many books and programs have you bought and ready that have actually given […]
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 […]
Take It To The Mat And Pull The Trigger
Sorry to keep you. So there I was dicking around about which pearl of my infinite wisdom to share with you today. Sorry to keep you. I had a lot on, like checking every blog about blogging on the planet to be sure I was doing it right. Then I had to check a page […]
Well This You Tube Video Is Little Bit Too Close To Home For Me…. #Hustle
Zoom Zoom Zoom We’re Going To The Moon…..
And we’re back in the room It only seems ten minutes since I was last here armed with a keyboard and a stream of not very much to say, I have got the bug again for blogging like demon and it came from a combination of things. 1. I have been posting my Instagram photos […]
