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- Tidy up as you go along. Be it cooking, DIY or selling your software solution.
- Remember the small stuff. As it is big stuff to somebody else.
- Focus on simplicity.The answer is always there.
- Drink decent tea and coffee. Do the simple pleasures properly.
- You have never, ever 'made it'. You simply get to a place where you have a better vantage point than many. Do not squander such a position.
- Check your posture. It will reflect how you are treating your body.
- No piece of technology can yet be as creative as your brain at its best. Look after it.
- Eat more plant protein. All data suggests it is life enhancing with no side effects.
- No girlfriend was ever meant 'to be understood'. Where's the fun in that?
- Often when we think we are hungry we are simply thirsty. Drink water first.
- Multiply Italian design style with almost anything and you won't go far wrong.
- Become you own expert. Never leave your wealth, your health nor your politics (solely) to a (perhaps) impressive CV.
- A Master List is different to a To Do List. The former has 'want to do's as well as the latter's 'Have to do's.
- Jeans are even cooler when not worn all the time.
- You need a Sinatra greatest hits on your playlist. Every man and every woman will have their Sinatra moments. Don't be caught out.
- Your start-up will take three times as long as the spreadsheet predicted to become profitable. Make the adjustment now and you will be fine.
- Don't wait until Breaking Bad becomes the new cult. Watch it now.
- The alarm clock is for back-up. Not wake up: get enough sleep.
- 1 or 2 or 3 dip recession?Doesn't matter: stay focused, work hard and delight customers.
- Save time instantly. From meetings, unnecessarry travel, lack of anticipation of what's coming up in the schedule and TV.
- Creativity isn't a technique: it's a way of being.
- Selling is generating quantity of possibilities, to which you then add an amazing quality of pitch.
- They don't know. But their idea might take you to the solution. Listen to understand.
- What's measurable is often so much less important than what is not measurable. It's a length, a sum, a weight which gives us confidence. It's false confidence.
- Time only speeds up when you get older because of sameness. Build more variety and you'll have that delightful childhood speed again.
- David Bowie showed putting the work in and delivering great product may even mean you don't need social media.
- Ensure significant amounts of your day is investing. In your learning or health or relationships or...It'll make future days easier.
- Remind yourself you need a damn good reason to get into debt.And nice shoes isn't it.
- Talking beats e-mail. And sometimes hugging beats talking.
- Any conversation can be re-started. It ain't about pride. It's about humility.
- Be it early or late or hidden away somewhere, you will need peace and quiet for your greatest work.
- You are never stuck. You simply need to shift.
- You doing art isn't about pictures. It's about fully releasing those demons.It helped Pollock a little.
- When you really crave your drug of choice is exactly the time it would be best to avoid it.
- Technology rarely makes things easier. Just busier.
- 1h of silence. A whole day of silence. What might it do for you?
- Your creative breakthrough is a breath, a glance, a doodle away.
- Cheap notebooks are good. They are not intimidating.
- Money wealth rarely brings true freedom. But thinking wealth, does.
- Question the assumptions. Therein lies your new strategy for success.
- Routine is reassuring. But it can stop you growing.
- Doing less is often very productive.
- You and a boxing bag can change your world.
- Try a different meeting location.
- Aggressive people in business have lost their way. Help them back on the path by not putting up with their sh*t.
- Read the label on the packet. Accept no substitutes for real food.
- Halve the TV viewing, double your reading. Triple your brain power.
- Nothing is meant to be easy. Ending up on Planet Earth in 2013 was a pretty big break to start with.
- P&Qs, R&R and LOL. All essential for everyday sanity.
- The paper book will never die. It will just become very special again.
- "Failure is Not an Option" (Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) is no bad message to head your note-pad as you kick off another project meeting.
- All is relative. Raise your standards of delivery and you'll be more in demand. Reduce your need for perfection and life is a whole lot easier.
- Energy=mass times the speed of light squared. Eat more and you will need to move more.
- Make Saturday day 1 of your weekand you'll be up-and-running by Monday.
- The best version of you is staggeringly close. Stop copying, start innovating.
- Cars were meant to replace horses. Not walking.
- Remember the dinosaurs? Getting bigger all the time. Taking to the air more and more. Squabbling a lot? Quite.
- Be Bold. Period.
- Less caffeine. More hot water and sliced ginger.
- When you want ideas, give yourself a numerical target. Your brain will work harder.
- There are plenty of parallel universes to choose from. They originate in your imagination and are manifested through your daily decisions.
- Be courteous. It always works.
- Replace confectionery with dates. Try medjool. Try slightly chilled medjool.
- Create your perfect 'Start Me Up' playlist of the 100 perfect tracks to re-focus and energise you. Keep handy for emergencies.
- Never forget urgent is often not that important. But crucially much of the important only becomes urgent when it is too late. More detail & tips in Paradoxical Productivity.
- Decide to see more sun-rises, sun-sets and the moon.
- To write more you need to read more.
- Try a longer hug.
- Place at eye-line in work cubicle: "I don't know where I am going from here but I promise it won't be boring" David Bowie.
- Re-boot your Master List. Your definitive list of not only what you have to do. But what you want to do.
- Life is not getting tougher. You're just realising how much goes on under the bonnet/hood.
- The most powerful strategy in the galaxy: start. Just think: Big Bang and take it from there...
- Try a different route.
- Start before you need to.
- You don't need to explain everything.
- Try a higher 'B' pencil for faster flow across the page and more 'connect' with the idea.
- Surprise your competitors by coming out of the sun.
- Work at getting sound, deep uninterrupted sleep.
- Learn more. Forget a little.
- Excellence is great. Consistency in excellence is awesome.
- Tomorrow is indeed a fresh start.
- Reduce the stuff in your life: it's causing drag.
- Plan it. Do it. Review it. Kaizen.
- Arriving a bit early allows you to plan and reflect.
Arriving a bit late damages your reputation.
- You can be a leader any time. You don’t need to wait until
it appears in your job title.
- At school, the process for discovering an unknown was called
algebra. In the organisation it is called asking good questions and listening
to the reply.
- Getting noticed-fairly or not-has a pretty high threshold. Keep doing great work. Consistently. And you will be noticed.
- Make decisions based on strategy, facts and people. Not e-mail.
- Notice irritation rising. It's a danger sign.
- Drive even more carefully.
- Become a good presenter; it's a vital skill in any organisation.
- Have a routine for efficiency (getting stuff done). Vary that routine for effectiveness (getting the right stuff done).
- Give praise. It motivates.
- Stop doing the non-excellent stuff.
- Re-read the classics. The wisdom therein is astonishing.
- Live life long, wide and deep.
- Remember you can do anything but not everything.
- It's failure or feedback. Your choice.
- Get a plan.
- Work the plan.
- Take a tip a day. And act.