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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.
My Seven Week Writing Experiment
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My Seven Week Writing Experiment

My Little Writing Experiment So I’m always writing every day. But still have some odd aversion to hitting publish, and there is always an internal debate about what to post first. Then I massage my work and wonder if it is for this person or that person. Then I'll go and read a book about that type of blog, and then I read a blog about that type of book. After that, I’ll check the SEO for the main keyword my article was written about. Finally, I watch yet another Backlinko video to verify
How To Build Trust With Your Coworking Space Website
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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
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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 Develop An Epic Content Creation Process
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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 productivity
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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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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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How to get your team to stop using endless email threads FOREVER

We get it-- you like the idea of less email. Conversations can be concentrated within certain apps (whichever it might be--of course we like Trello ;)), but your team isn’t complying. The email threads continue. And continue. Ad nauseum. How do you get them to ADAPT, already? Fortunately there something truly simple you can do to make them stop the email nonsense forever. In our lifetime, the social skill of setting and maintaining boundaries has been all but lost. This isn’t done by enforcing
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Trello Tip: See what you need to work on right now

We're going to take it back to the bare essentials with this tip. And that's to answer the age-old question: What do you need to work on right now? How can you become more productive and focus on the most important tasks in your to do list? Here's a scenario you might be familiar with: You diligently add all tasks into Trello. After a while you have so many cards on your Trello board that it becomes really difficult to know what you should be working on next. You are constantly playing catchup,
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Trello Tip: Make your meetings 1000 times more productive

The Win: Make your meetings, phone calls, Skype calls massively more productive. Keep track of what is decided during meetings, phone calls, Skype calls. Easily create tasks and assign them to members of your team. The Problem: During a call, it's easy to make decisions, plan the next move, come up with a brilliant strategy. Everybody agrees on the next few steps. Some may take notes. But often the details are forgotten, nobody takes action afterwards and the meeting ends up being an unproducti
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Trello Tip: Keep track of lots of projects at the same time

The Win: You'll be able to keep track of all your projects at the same time, across multiple Trello boards and gives you back a feeling of control. The Pain: Once you start using Trello in earnest, you automatically end up with lots of boards. It can become difficult to keep track of what you should be doing where and to get insight into all your projects without having to switch between boards all the time. As a result you miss important tasks and become an inefficient manager. Possible solut
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