Nicholas Bate

The Greatest Productivity Tips, 159

Simply because we do not affix a postage stamp to our e-mail does not mean it is free. That mail has a huge cost in productivity terms: for us, in did we craft it correctly first time? For others in lack of certainty perhaps of what is required of them. For others in being cc'd without need.

No, mail isn't free. It's extraordinarily expensive. Ensure you get a good RoI on each and every one. 

Behind Every Spreadsheet

is a real world of mountains, sea-shores, Beatles tracks and fresh home-made lemonade. 

Feel Better Soon, 7

1. Music.
2. Back-to-nature walk.
3. Baking bread.
4. Talking with a good listener.
5. A nap.
6. Creating a plan.
7. Leadership posture, language and actions.

 

1. Music.
2. Back-to-nature walk.
3. Baking bread.
4. Talking with a good listener.
5. A nap.
6. Creating a plan.
7. Leadership posture, language and actions.

The Greatest Productivity Tips, 158

Review this week. 

Learn from this week.

Plan next week.

Enjoy the weekend.

On Writing, 157

Readers will accept a coincidence or two in your novel as they know that happens in life. Use them wisely to support your plot. 

Catch Up Wednesday 35

1. 25 Mini Standards.
2. The Writing Primer.
3. Bram, A Spy Story: a story of coming of age, of Queen and country and the origins of Covid-19. “Once you start reading this book, it’s difficult to put down. Initially, you are immersed in the delights of Oxford academia, only to then be exposed to the starkness and brutality of Moscow during the Cold War. Bram, a brilliant Oxford chemist, turns spy whose mission is to save the world from a highly dangerous and ubiquitous threat. This book is characterised by most of the attributes of a good spy story with action, heroic exploits by a larger-than-life protagonist and a strong plot. Well worth a read.”
   
4. How to Start your Very Own Business.
5. Instant Productivity.
6. Seven choices.
7. 22 Essentials.
8. How to Create your Home Office.
9. plus The Start Up Myths
10. Stay STRONG
11. Crazy Bold Experiments
12. Just say NO to PPT
13. The Marketing Primer.
14. Being the Best version of you, the book, back in stock.
15. Redundancy
16. Hunter-Gatherer 21C
17. Tackling Stress.
18. Manage that career
19. Be Bold 101
20. You still haven’t read Being The Best?! 
21. Things They Don’t Teach at Business School
22. the secrets of success
23. Life Tips 101
24. Zen & Art of Cubicle Freedom
25. Carnage At Kodak
26. The Very Best Drugs You Need
27. Billions of Light Years Away In Another Galaxy
28. 22 Routes To Your Non Fiction Book
29. Lists For The Life You Love
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
35. The Basic Basics

Be Ready. Be excited.

a new novel is poised. 

The Summer Vacation

allows many things.

Including time to reflect, time to wonder, time to be.

The Greatest Productivity Tips, 157

Smaller tasks are brain friendly, time friendly and motivating when achieved.

Break large tasks into small tasks. Break hard tasks into easy tasks. Break unknowns into knowns.

Go do.

June Re-Boot Seven

1. Sometime you just know. You just know. Something needs to change.
2. A job. A relationship. A lifestyle. The way you manage your finances. Whatever: it needs to change....
3. You need a Re-Boot.
4. You need 1h, pencil and paper. An undisturbed place.
5. Write down 6 headings: career/health/finances/relationships/fun/contribution
6. Against each heading, two columns: 'now', 'soon'. In 'now' the current situation. In 'soon' what you seek.
7. Start closing the gap.