Nicholas Bate

Russian Screens

Like those marvellous Russian dolls which neatly stack within one another and surprise as there is always just one more to pop out, life can easily become a series of screens. The initial one on the bed-side table revealing time, weather, stock price and the over-night  mail.  Ones scattered around the house with breakfast TV, the slate grabbed for diary overview; the giant motorway one on the way to work. The one in reception with rolling news, the one on your desk, the one for projection in the PM briefing,....

Be Bold: get a screen-free hour during the day. Look at the horizon. Use that peripheral vision. Reach out and re-realise there's a real world out there.

September Redux II, 8

1. Power language
2. Be Bold: list, movie, poster
3. A Few Things The Beatles Taught Us
4. 100 word story
5. Seek clarity
6. Hunter Gatherer 21C: the complete two score and ten.
7. E-Mail: stop the cascade.
8. No Monday ever beat anyone with...

Mmmm

Blue Sky, Yellow Stone

September Redux, I: 13

1. Like a Hungry Predator Sensing Blood
2. Hunter-Gatherer, 21 C the first dozen
3. Monday Whispering
4. Don't Defer.
5. Critical Business 3
6. Handy Free Stuff 7
7. Releasing The Artist Within
8. Never Be (just) The Label You Are Given
9. Stop Worrying about Your Pension
10. E-Mail: make 'no action' easy.
11. A Beaker of Water
12. Fear?
13. How to be even Smarter

Bonus 1: January 2015 Redux

Bonus 2: February 2015 Redux

Bonus 3: March 2015 Redux

Bonus 4: April 2015 Redux

Bonus 5: May 2015 Redux I

Bonus 6: May 2015 Redux II

Bonus 7: June 2015 Redux I

Bonus 8: June 2015 Redux II

Bonus 9: July 2015 Redux I

Bonus 10: July 2015 Redux II

Bonus 11: August 2015 Redux I

Bonus 12: August 2015 Redux II

Bonus 13: Those All-time Popular Posts

Bonus 14: The Complete Posts of 2013.

Bonus 15: The Complete Posts of 2014

Bonus 16: You, Only Better

Bonus 17: Be Bold, the movie.

Bonus 18: The Smart Bloggers.

E-Mail Tip 11: Let Go of Reptile Brain

Reptile brain wants a response to a mail NOW!

But reptile brain is a symptom of stress, fatigue and poor planning. Allow time for responses.

TBC

In the meantime: 

1. How To Lessen E-mail Pain, free download.
2. The Business Skills Collection: fast, pragmatic, budget amazon e-read.

Plus:

• Tip 1: Keep it Short
• Tip 2: Don't cc
• Tip 3: Don't send a mail
• Tip 4: Batch Process
• Tip 5: What Do you Want?
• Tip 6: Days Without
• Tip 7: Dig Deeper
• Tip 8: Don't Do It First
• Tip 9: Make 'no action' easy.
• Tip 10: Stop the Cascade

In Three: Power Language

1. I/we rather than they
2. when rather than if
3. and rather than but

• In Three: Stuff Simplification
• In Three: Releasing the Saturday Artist Within
• In Three: How to Stop Worrying about Your Pension.
• In Three: How To Be Even Smarter
• In Three: Productivity.
• In Three: Bold New Start
• In Three: Back to School
• In Three: Selling
• In Three: Parenting.
• In Three: Wellness
• In Three: Presenting.
• In Three: Perfect Coffee
• In Three: Super Wellness & The Three Ms
• In Three: Creativity
• In Three: Fridays
• In Three: Healthy Eating
• In Three: Get Less Mail
• In Three: Hard Wealth
• In Three: Meetings
• In Three: Getting Your Non-Fiction Book Written & Out There
• In Three: Great cooking

Be Bold 101

• the list
• the poster (HUGE thanks to Kurt Harden & team)
• the movie

How To Get More Books

read.

100 Word Story

Definitely, definitely Autumn had arrived in that corner of London. She loved ‘Fall’ even though it wasn’t that incredibly ‘bursting new’ of Spring, it was quiet reflection:  a year well progressed as amazing things had happened: she was fitter, healthier and she was writing. The unhelpful relationship was over and her need for the constant approval of others a dim and distant memory of some year 2014; she felt grown up and able to tackle anything. She walked through her favourite square, dulled at street level with shops but above those, beautiful architecture from a gentler time. She loved Autumn.