Nicholas Bate

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Knowing that cooking for yourself is not just decent food well prepared at a fair price.

It’s also stress management, creativity and time for those deeper music cuts.

Free, handy PDF

The Rules of Life.

Atoms are small

and the universe is vast. Conceptualising either is very tricky for the human brain because both are outside comfortable processing range for us. We get the same problem on a daily basis with tasks such as 'get fit'; 'create strategic plan'; 'improve productivity'; 'change career path'. Such tasks are impenetrable at their current size: they are both brain and time unfriendly. To make progress with such tasks they need breaking down into small chunks: about 45 minutes in length will do nicely. Break them down and if necessary break them down again.

Much time management and getting things done is not about time: it's about scale.

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Paper. Pencil. 

And asking and answering the question,

what’s really, really important now?

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Do fewer things.

Do them really well.

Feel you’ve achieved something.

Your Wednesday Style Guide

Is right here.

Wednesday Melange 34

1. The Writing Primer.
2. Meet Molly is now out. A love story. A parable. A good read. ”This book is a must read. To be savoured.”
3. How to Start your Very Own Business.
4. 22 Essentials.
5. How to Create your Covid-19 Home Office.
6. plus The Start Up Myths
7. Stay STRONG
8. Crazy Bold Experiments
9. Just say NO to PPT
10. Post Covid Business Essentials.
11. The Marketing Primer.
12. Redundancy
13. Covid-19, 101
14. Hunter-Gatherer 21C
15. Tackling Stress.
16. Manage that career
17. Be Bold 101
18. You still haven’t read Being The Best?! 
19. Things They Don’t Teach at Business School
20. the secrets of success
21. Life Tips 101
22. Zen & Art of Cubicle Freedom
23. Be Bold 101
24. Carnage At Kodak
25. The Very Best Drugs You Need
26. Billions of Light Years Away In Another Galaxy
27. 22 Routes To Your Non Fiction Book
28. Lists For The Life You Love
29. Her Notes To Herself
30. How To Lessen E-Mail Pain
31. Professionalism 101
32. 21 Ways to Improve your Zoom Conference Call.
33. Productivity Primer
34. 101, redux.

Deep Rest, 7

1. A loving conversation.
2. A great book.
3. A week without an alarm-clock.
4. A long walk: in the hills, along the beach or through the park.
5. Chopping lots of wood and carrying plenty of water.
6. A day without technology.
7. A weekend without TV.

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Invest in every relationship. Even those of 30 seconds. Even those which seem once only.

Notice the return for your trouble.

Write on a Sunday, 21

1. to clarify
2. to force ideas to manifest
3. to discover who you are
4. to banish demons
5. to stop worry
6. to create a list
7. to do what you do
8. to entertain
9. to write a novel
10. to let him/her know how you feel
11. to become the best version of you
12. to quit smoking
13. to connect with something deeper
14. to boost your creativity
15. to find the lyrics for your tune
16. to write a guide
17. to outline your manifesto
18. to remember that thunder-flash of genius
19. to find an answer
20. to find the answer
21. because you have pen and paper.