Nicholas Bate

Why We Love The Beatles (v2): 87 of 100

And John? Poor John. His happiest times? Probably when he got his original-‘Just William’- gang together. Probably sitting with Paul just creating out of nowhere lyrics and tunes which would captivate us all for the rest of eternity. Probably time with his son in New York City. But much of the rest: it really got to him: the demands, the expectations, the hiding-his-first-wife-away, the competitiveness with his soul-mate, the stupid press, his lack of mothering. Yep-understandably-it got to him. But despite it all, his creativity and dexterity with language showed in that post Beatles, even in his periods of greatest angst, he could produce some amazing materials. 

That's another reason we love The Beatles.

I'm Hoping It's The Start of a New Series...

Why did we get rid of?

It's All Here

Kurt Harden for the weekend.

Blast from the Past

How To Be More Intelligent

Brilliant at the Basics of Business (v2) 100, 95

Marketing strategy is identifying the segments of your chosen market to whom you wish to talk, and what story you are telling them. No segment and/or no story means no viable business and no amount of 'selling skills' will rectify that.

Jagged Thoughts for Jagged Times, 411

Anything given attention will improve. 

So what needs attention?

Basics 7: Fit and Well without the Gym

1. Walk. One tube stop earlier. To the corner shop. To the tram. At lunch-time. Don't think of it as slower than driving, think of it as the best wellness (mind and body) activity that exists.
2. Climb. Stairs rather than elevators or escalators.  Quicker, more flexible and heart strengthening, stress reducing.
3. Down time. Not slump on the sofa time. Time reflecting, time staring at the horizon. Time isolated from noise, the digital interrupt and 24/7 false news.
4. The Daily Journal. For perspective, for insight and for budget therapy.
5. Food.  More real. More green. More variety. More cooked from scratch. More local. 
6. Play. Ball. Juggle. Hoop. Five-a-side.
7. Sleep. Quality times quantity.

Why We Love The Beatles (v2): 86 of 100

Beatlyi. What a great Russian word: 'to be connected, to be of The Beatles'. Not surprisingly given the impact The Beatles were having around the world on young people and their thinking, there was no way a Beatles record was going to be allowed into the country when The Fab Four were active; confiscated albums were deliberately scratched and returned to their distraught owners. But the few that did get through were on the black market on reel-to-reel tape within days.

We can never be sure how much such black market albums helped influence younger (and not so young) Russians that maybe the West was not so bad and not so evil after all, but it certainly created a desire to question dogma which had to be good. 

 

Once again, the four lads from Liverpool done good. 

 

That's another reason we love The Beatles.

Brilliant at the Basics of Business (v2) 100, 94

When adding another corporate initiative, take one away.

There's only so much time in the day.

Jagged Thoughts for Jagged Times, 410

Stop and think: what's really, really important to you?

Ask that question at least twice a day: checking your compass keeps you on the right path.