What happens when you sit down to write? Are you staring at the screen, waiting for the words to appear magically? If you are like me, you get a perfect cup of coffee beside you that you spent thirty minutes making. Then, you spend another twenty minutes deciding what app to write in and then […]
What To Write On Your Website And Why You’re Stuck
What to write? So every week I have to come up with a new idea about what to write. And in the last few weeks, I’ve come up with ideas — non-stop. It is too many ideas, but now I know which ones to use. How to know what to write. So I know what […]
How to avoid being caught in the Email Newsletter void.
Another email newsletter??? Have you ever said that to yourself when you received one of those? You know, you subscribed to one of those cause you were really into the product they’re selling. You really want to know what they have to say, what’s new with them. And then you kind of lost interest in […]
Email Marketing in A Social Media World – a simple guide.
“If Social Media is the cocktail party, then email marketing is the ‘meet up for coffee’. The original 1 to 1 channel.” -Erik Harbison You would’ve thought that in a world of social media, email marketing would be on the bottom of the tier of effective marketing strategy. How come even the big and established […]
Why September Is The Best Month To Get Writing
So I had a friend, and on their wall, they had a poster with the caption “A year from now you will wish you’d started today.’ It would make me roll my eyes; I’m not sure why and that is not the point of the story. Start a little writing habit Maybe five years ago, […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]
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 – […]
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 […]
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 […]
