Nicholas Bate

A Book on A Saturday

allows you to travel. To escape. To become a better gardener, a more confident cook and even attempt to knit a Fair-Isle jumper. It will get you to think and think more and to ponder and sometimes have an epiphany. It will cause you to want to finally create that plan, write that long over-due real letter and go on that hike. Sometimes it'll get you to cry, to become a page-turner and laugh out loud.

Add music and decent coffee and perfect company and you may well have bliss on a humble Saturday.

Resilience 101: 65-74: In a Crazy, Crazy World.

In an exciting but crazy, crazy world how do we stay resilient? Buoyant, focused, content...? Seizing our opportunities yet more than appreciative of what we have? Bags of astonishing energy? The very best version of ourselves?

Ten areas require regular maintenance. They are here in overview. And the initial six now covered in more detail:

1. Mental resilience.
2. Physical resilience.
3. Personal Compass & Clarity of Purpose
4. Productivity, Busyness & The Digital Interrupt
5. Being the Best Version of Ourselves
6. Knowing & Doing

7: In a Crazy, Crazy World

1. Stop and think.
2. Take time out.
3. Look up at the sky.
4. Spend lots of time outside. In real weather.
5. Walk the beach, the desert, the mountains.
6. Check your breathing: full and replenishing. Not shallow, grabbed, stressed.
7. Check your posture: walk tall, sit tall. Be tall.
8. Find friends who are in the conversation rather than on facebook.
9. Love Planet Earth. Get closer to the real one.

More 101s, here.

David Seah

in Taiwan for dental treatment. But dinner first.

If You Are Going to Over-Pack

let it be books.

October Redux II: 7

(October Redux I is here)

1. Fresh start anytime.
2. Get on a short list of elite players.
3. 7 Ways to Create a Better Strategic Plan
4. Resilience 101: Knowing & Doing
5. 7 Secrets
6. Go Walk
7. Hunter-Gatherer Check-list.

Jagged Thoughts for Jagged Times: 159

Working hard, working smart, being courteous, turning up on time, doing what you said you would do, being resourceful and professional: none of these guarantee the promotion you seek. But they certainly pull you out of the crowded masses and put you on a short-list of elite players.

In Minnesota

you need plenty of fleece, soup and ...

October Redux I: 12

1. Resilience 101
2. When you Start Your Own Business
3. Street Art
4. In Three: Great Marketing
5. 22 Ways to Create a Small, Simple Start Up
6. Consistently Voted: Number 1 destination in the universe.
7. The Finance Terms you need.
8. E-Mail Tip 12
9. Don't Even Think About
10. Leaves 101
11. 22 Ways to Be a Far, Far Better Conference Speaker
12. But the Less Time We Have to....

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: September 2015 Redux I

Bonus 14: September 2015 Redux II

Bonus 15: Those All-time Popular Posts

Bonus 16: The Complete Posts of 2013.

Bonus 17: The Complete Posts of 2014

Bonus 18: You, Only Better

Bonus 19: Be Bold, the movie.

Bonus 20: The Smart Bloggers.

Mmmm

Jagged Thoughts for Jagged Times: 158

To 'think outside the box' it's very helpful to know a lot about the box: it's dimensions, mass, colour/s and materials. It's sometimes handy to know who built the box and why he/she did build it so. It's certainly invaluable to know any rules and/or protocols which have been established about the box during its existence and how those came into existence.

In fact there's plenty to be done if the 'think outside the box' is going to achieve anything quickly.