Nicholas Bate

Brilliant at the Basics of Business (v2) 100, 85

People are motivated only by money when they can't get any appreciation.

Fast-Track with The Book

People are motivated only by money when they can't get any appreciation.

Fast-Track with The Book

The Simplest of Productivity Boosters 1-50: 40

Check that your priorities are not ease, fear nor digital. Check that they are by pay-off, by RoI, by making future life easier.

Bonus: How to be Brilliant.

Did You Miss The Birthday

of JS Bach?

Why We Love The Beatles (v2) 78 of 100:

You’ve got the magisterial classics: Hey Jude, Let it Be and Yesterday. You’ve got the awesome B sides such as Rain.  You’ve got those wonderful early ones such as Love Me Do. And then there’s: Got To Get You Into My Life. Surprisingly easy to forget about and never get around to on your play-lists... which would be a shame as it just reminds you: there’s nothing not worth listing to in the Beatles Opus. A taut, stonking number it-like all Beatles music-grounds you and connects you. And as with so many of Paul’s and John’s lyrics, listening to the words carefully  gives us the gentlest of nudges we need to play life fully: I was alone, I took a ride, I didn't know what I would find there….Another road where maybe I could see another kind of mind there. The whole of life is in The Beatles Portfolio, but you’ve got to listen to them all and more than once, too. 

That's another reason we love The Beatles.

Michael Wade

has T-shirts, reading and well-honed thoughts for the weekend.

The man who got so many of us started, for very good reason.

Doer Notebooks

are here.

Chris Christie

boogie.

Jeroen Sangers

is the productivity guy.

Basics 7: The Sharp Pencil

1. Creates essential lists (shopping, master and garden tasks) with finesse.
2. The act of sharpening with your Forest Knife is a perfect meditative moment.
3. Sketch a matrix (meal plans, coaching timetable, gym activity) with elegance.
4. Have fun deciding the HB balance which works for your hand, your paper and your mind.
5. Release the artist within.
6. Do equations (paint required for kitchen, tax due next payment, off-site costs) with discretion.
7. Know your desk is equipped with a timeless tool which simply cannot break down and gives plenty of warning when renewal is required.

Daily Planning

with Michael Wade.