Nicholas Bate

100 Sound Bites From Do What You Want, the book, Number 25

...but limiting mindsets hold back e.g. ''17 applications already: I'll never get a job'.

Do What You Want: How To Create A Career You Will Love, the book, now shipping. "An incredibly inspiring but practical book; ideal for those in work and keen to make the most of their lives, as well as those looking for something new. Not to mention life coaches and mentors."

Why It's Easier Than You Think

Your brain has a WCSG: a Worst Case Scenario Generator. And it's cool; it saves your life several times a week by assuming that cars won't slow down, those mushrooms are not edible and that it's worth paying for insurance. But it does kick-in at awkward times. It truly doesn't crave change. It tends to assume the staus quo has worked so is a good place to be. That's why you need to remember that many situations are a whole lot easier than the WCSG is projecting in your mind. It is easier to get a new job, start a business, get super healthy, write a book, end that crappy relationship, than you think. Literally. Ahhh...but...how do you know the valid difference between a real WCS and just an unhelpful one? Down time. You've got to have some down time. Not TV, not a glass of wine. Not even five-a-side football. These are all fun but they are not the down down time we need here: real data deprivation time so what is important can really surface. And when you get into that zone, some call it meditation, you'll know. Absolutely simultaneously in heart and gut that it is absolutely easier than (you were) thinking. Bring it on.

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In Praise of Life

ParadoxicalProductivity: Number 10

Start At The End

What exactly do you want to achieve? You don't actually want to be so busy your head hurts, so over-loaded you're doing e-mail in bed and so back-to-back with meetings you have no time to think. Start with the result you want and work backwards. You'll be more productive.

Bonus 1: Professionalism101

Bonus 2: Brilliant at the Basics of Business 100

Bonus 3: ParadoxicalProductivity 1-8

Daily Wisdom

"That's why we don't have drive-through windows for medical exams or management consulting."

with the blogger's blogger, Michael Wade

100 Sound Bites From Do What You Want, the book, Number 24

...empowering mindsets support e.g. 'if I put the work in I can get the job I seek'..

Do What You Want: How To Create A Career You Will Love, the book, now shipping. "An incredibly inspiring but practical book; ideal for those in work and keen to make the most of their lives, as well as those looking for something new. Not to mention life coaches and mentors."

Bonus: Numbers 1-22, here.

Number 23 here

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ParadoxicalProductivity: Number 9

Take a break

Full on, sustained hard work is admirable. However, the body being organic maintains this relentless pace by slowly switching to reptile brain. Reptile brain is about survival. It will get the job done until you literally drop.  But take a break and you keep higher brain in flow. Higher brain is where the creative breakthroughs occur so many of which are the amazing productivity breakthroughs.

Bonus 1: Professionalism101

Bonus 2: Brilliant at the Basics of Business 100

Bonus 3: ParadoxicalProductivity 1-8

100 Sound Bites From Do What You Want, the book, Number 23

...there are two kinds of mindsets: empowering and limiting..

Do What You Want: How To Create A Career You Will Love, the book, now shipping. "An incredibly inspiring but practical book; ideal for those in work and keen to make the most of their lives, as well as those looking for something new. Not to mention life coaches and mentors."

Bonus: Numbers 1-22, here.

RealGrit 101

1. Focused;
2. determined;
3. principled;
4. knowing.
5. And of course:
6. doing.
7. Real Grit...
8. History simply for reference not recrimination.
9. This is not a movie: this is for real.
10. I rather than he or she.
11. We rather than they.
12. On time every time.
13. In the room; totally full on 100% present.
14. Solution seeking: you simply don’t do complaining;
15. “it spoils my day”, you say.
16. Real Grit...
17. Finding your thing;
18. doing your thing;
19. executing it better, far better than anybody else…
20. on the planet.
21. Loving hard, smart work.
22. And smart, hard work.
23. What’s necessary,
24. when it’s necessary.
25. Squeezing out the demons of doubt;
26. knowing the dark side has possibilities simply because few else will visit it and explore.
27. "it is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for witnessing your own" Jessamyn West
28. Beyond distraction: e-mail pinging, facebook checking and cookie crumbling...
29. Loving handy routes to delivery: the master list, the wall planner and the daily bouts at the boxing bag.
30. "every bit of writing starts with grit: a sight or sound or sentence or happening that does not pass away but quite inexplicably lodges in the mind" Rumer Godden
31. Getting your unpolluted story out into the crowd:
32. this is who I am...
33. this is what I do...
34. this is why you need me...
35. this is the extraordinary value I offer...
36. Remembering:
37. you don’t have to listen to their negative comments simply because they are scared of what success might bring to you. OR THEM.
38. That you want to do meaningful work even if that takes a decade to get up-and-running as a career.
39. And it probably will.
40. But you can hack it.
41. Real Grit...
42. Planning your quest:
43. over hill;
44. beyond dale;
45. across mountains;
46. via dried-up river beds;
47. over-night camps;
48. days without proper food.
49. Eating frugally:
50. but becoming lean and mean;
51. and fighting fit
52. Thinking what could I do?
53. If I didn’t worry so much!
54. If I got on with it..
55. If didn't expect total clarity always.
56. That I realised that excellence came with:
57. repeated execution,
58. with learning from mistakes,
59. from hanging out with the best,
60. from simply being determined.
61. But
62. but
63. but
64. Is it really that simple?
65. Can't I have an excuse?
66. Is it as simple as 'grit'.
67. simply persevering
68. hanging on in there
69. knowing one's vision.
70. Sure.
71. So: no excuses?
72. No. No excuses.
73. No loopholes?
74. No. No loopholes.
75. "a grindstone that had no grit in it: how long would that take to sharpen an axe; and the affairs of man without grit: how long would they take to make a man? Henry Ward Beecher
76. Get up;
77. deliver to the highest of standards;
78. consistently.
79. Works
80. every
81. damn time.
82. Excellence has little competition.
83. Delivering excellence is a joy.
84. Excellence knocks their socks off.
85. Excellence secures your career.
86. Excellence gets you well paid.
87. Excellence comes with added
88. Grit:
89. determined
90. long-term thinker
91. goal-driven
92. willing to ride with dust in their mouth
93. happy to survive on just beans for a few days
94. consistently delivers.
95. Grit:
96. makes
97. you
98. the
99. person
100. you need to be.
101. And gets you the life you want to have.