Nicholas Bate

Productivity Reminder 53

Friday is the perfect day to review, of course.

it’s also an ideal day to plan...for Monday.

Life Reminder 19

Life is easier with expertise. Be it running a cafe, chopping wood with a long-handled axe or being able to cook for yourself.

Gain expertise.

Presentation Reminder 15

Although ‘corporate guidelines’ encourage slide-decks of beauty, build your slide deck to aid understanding and buy-in. 

the primer is here.

Productivity Reminder 52

Batch similar tasks. The key example being e-mail. Batch e-mail proactively. Don’t allow it to keep distracting from your main task. Your job. 

How to Lessen E-mail

Pain.

Apollo 11 vs USB-C charger

Documented here.

Basics 7: The Portable Gym

1. Stand: at desk, on conference calls, with coffee outside in ‘weather’.
2. Walk: from far end of car park, to the deli at lunch-time, one tube-stop earlier in the evening.
3. Mobilise: back, hands, neck. All maybe ‘fixed’ by that desk-top configuration.
4. Climb & Carry: sets of stairs, carefully packed groceries in back-pack and always a weather-proof.
5. Weather: get out more, toughen up. Use that weather-proof.
6. Sit: at home on the floor more. Wriggle and acclimatise that body. Get up off the floor without struggle.
7. Think: I am still a hunter-gatherer. I just don’t need to kill my own food.

Blast from the Past

22 Things They Still Don’t Teach You at Business School.

Presentation Reminder 14

No fancy PowerPoint slides will save a presentation where the presenter doesn’t know the material.

Rehearse.  To the mirror, to your dog, to your phone’s recorder.

Rehearse.

100 Words

Take a walk on the wild side. Stay safe but experience a little rain, a little wind, even a little chill. Allow the senses to spark, the brain to be massaged and the heart to pump a little faster. Without resilience we have no path to growth. Without growth and direction we wonder what it’s all about. We’ll never really know of course but does it really matter? We landed on planet earth consistently voted the greatest planet in the know universe. Just make sure you look up, put aside the electrons for a while and experience its greatest gifts.