Nicholas Bate

Your 2016 Word

Choose a word. Any word. One word. Make it yours. Grab it now: meditate on it, reflect on it; live it, breathe it and nurture it. For 2016

1. Discipline.
2. Reflective.
3. Travel.
4. Authentic.
5. Expert.
6. Happy.
7. Focus.
8. Determined.
9. Swimmer.
10. Cook.
11. Learner.
12. Runner.
13. Poet.
14. Courage.
15. Science.
16. Enlightened.
17. Abundance.
18. Resourceful.
19. Productive.
20. Athlete.
21. Explorer.
22. Curiosity.
23. Youthful.
24. Knitter.
25. Wise.
26. Notebook.
27. Stamina.
28. Creative.
29. Gymnast.
30. Brave.
31. Excitement.
32. Forgiving.
33. Baker.
34. Reader.
35. Wellness.
36. Student.
37. Minimalism.
38. Sensory.
39. Gardener.
40. Humour.
41. Writer.
42. Agile.
43. Painter.
44. Individualist.
45. Wealth.
46. Simple.
47. Linguist.
48. Today.
49. Cyclist.
50. Photographer.

The Pencil Sharpener

with two great writers and reflectors.

December 2015 Redux 32

1. Her Notes to Herself
2. How to be an Expert
3. The Greatest Drugs for the Greatest Minds
4. Help if You Can 21
5. 32 Reasons It's Worth Doing Brilliantly
6. 7 Rules to Break
7. For Goodness Sake 7
8. What if Things Were Different?
9. Priceless 101
10. 7 As to a Better Day
11. Who Doesn't Want More Time?
12. 24
13. How to Change the World
14. Mmmm; Fence or Ladder?
15. Curious Measurements
16. More Wolf, Less Sheep, 50
17. The Rules of Life
18. Be Bold 101
19. 100 word story 1
20. 100 word story 2
21. 100 word story 3
22. Zen & The Art of Cubicle Freedom
23. That Other F Word
24. 22 Routes to Writing your Non-Fiction Book
25. Jagged Thoughts for Jagged Times
26. Outrageous 101
27. 14 Rules for Radicals
28. The Escape Tools 7
29. How to Get What you Want
30. Carnage at Kodak
31. The Perfect Presents 7
32. Writing Primer 14

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: October Redux I

Bonus 16: October Redux II

Bonus 17: November Redux

Bonus 18: Those All-time Popular Posts

Bonus 19: The Complete Posts of 2013.

Bonus 20: The Complete Posts of 2014

Bonus 21: You, Only Better

Bonus 22: Be Bold, the movie.

Bonus 23: Go Home E-mail Free

Bonus 24: The Smart Bloggers (fully updated for 2016 with thanks to Kurt Harden)

Jagged Thoughts for Jagged Times 167

Not everything will go our way. But some things will.

Trying more (be it pitches for sales, covering letters for jobs, improving our PB in the half-marathon...) means a double win: we get more YES! and we get more resilient and anaesthetised to the NO!

The Toughest Questions 7

1. What the heck-in 50 words or less-do you really want?
2. What exactly is your obvious first step for better health/more wealth/better job/see 1?
3. Who precisely could help you?
4. And why precisely might they help you?
5. And why exactly haven't you asked him/her?
6. How exactly are you holding yourself back?
7. And why are you not being ruthlessly honest in answering 6?

If You Need More Energy

then you might find this publication of mine helpful.

Fast, pragmatic, budget.

How Many of Your Notebooks

are unused?

Tips on Doing

Disneyland.

Jagged Thoughts for Jagged Times 166

If a New Year's Resolution is taking your fancy, is bubbling back-of-brain then switch gear and think seriously about what you can drop, what you can not do. You need space and you need time to transform; those latter two are the Number One New year's Resolution. Start there and get what you want without tears.

Three Enemies.

Half the battle is allowing them to be mentioned.