Nicholas Bate

Music More 7

1. Music is to mind as wind, sun and rain are to body. It reminds you you are alive.
2. Music is a mood changer, mood enhancer and brain growth catalyst.
3. Expand your range:
4. from hits to B-sides and deep cuts.
5. from pop to classical and jazz.
6. Connect with the play-list guru: Kurt Harden.
7. Planet Earth: consistently voted the greatest planet with the greatest music. And greatest coffee.

The More Collection

• Live Wild More 7
• Remember More 7
• Create More 7
• Finish More 7
• Say More 7
• Notice More 7
• Consider More 7
• Cook More 7
• Tough it out More 7
• Listen More 7
• Connect More
• Forget More, 7
• Be More 7
• Feel More 7
• Use More 7
• Productivity, More 7
• Think More, 7
• Walk More 7
• Read More, 7 
• Write More, 7

PLUS: You, Only Better

 

We think of genius as the ability to dream up something never seen before

but

Any Excuse For Two Breakfasts

with Matthew Lang.

Consider More 7

1. Their perspective.
2. What's helping? What's hindering?
3. A very different approach.
4. The B sides.
5. A decent pair of brogues for the winter.
6. Letting one or two things go.
7. Doing more manual work.

The More Collection

• Live Wild More 7
• Remember More 7
• Create More 7
• Finish More 7
• Say More 7
• Notice More 7
• Cook More 7
• Tough it out More 7
• Listen More 7
• Connect More
• Forget More, 7
• Be More 7
• Feel More 7
• Use More 7
• Productivity, More 7
• Think More, 7
• Walk More 7
• Read More, 7 
• Write More, 7

PLUS: You, Only Better

Stay Hydrated

Productivity 3

Although people often say 'I need more time', the answer to many productivity issues is energy.

With energy comes focus, clarity of decision-making and ease of saying a polite 'no'.

The modern office depletes energy: a highly artificial environment, sedentary working and a calorific mis-match for such working conditions. Reverse all or any one of those factors and energy begins to flow.

More help here: Bags of Energy, Now. 

Productivity 1, The List

Productivity 2. The Meeting

Somewhere in Hamburg

Productivity 2

The meeting can appear to be a good way to reach consensus, to further a project or to check-in on the team. The problem is that the meeting is often only truly productive in terms of RoI for the person who called the meeting. For the other 8 perched on that conference call, sitting in that too small meeting room on a Monday morning their productivity has plummeted. 

Meetings tend to be more productive with fewer people, a shorter length of time, clear objectives, agreed and noted actions which are tracked and even everybody standing up.

The worst reason for a meeting is 'that's what we do'. 

Productivity 1, The List

Productivity 1

The List can seem to be a good way to manage your time and boost your productivity be it on a whiteboard, an app or in a notebook.  A list suggests a plan. Certainly a list is better than no list; a list after all directs your attention which is the thing in limited supply. Focused, determined attention is the critical commodity and the list directs this attention to the right places. Or not.

Except the list can be flawed. It can simply contain that which is worrying you now. Things that someone else is demanding of you.  Things which are easy, attractive and current.  But true productivity often comes from addressing that which is not at all urgent nor worrying now so that it will not be in the future (e.g. strategy or health) or really massive projects which are broken down into brain- and time-friendly chunks (e.g. a fresh business idea, your book).

Build a Better List by setting (and re-setting) your Personal Compass: Career/Wellness/Finances/Relationships/Fun/Contribution.

More help in You, Only Better.

Notice More 7

1. The architecture above the plastic shop-signs at street level.
2. Textures everywhere: cobbled streets Soho, NY; plants in Kew Gardens London; bread dough rising in a warm place.
3. You. Notice the thoughts. Choose the best.
4. Sun rises. Mozart. Sun sets. Chopin. Drizzle. Bach. Meditative Moments.
5. When you are at your best. And do more of that.
6. Physical sensations: the cold, cold lake as you dive naked on that hot, hot day high in The Pyrenees.
7. The Ease of pen on paper as sentence 1 of paragraph 1 of chapter 1 finally commences.

The More Collection.

• Live Wild More 7
• Remember More 7
• Create More 7
• Finish More 7
• Say More 7
• Cook More 7
• Tough it out More 7
• Listen More 7
• Connect More
• Forget More, 7
• Be More 7
• Feel More 7
• Use More 7
• Productivity, More 7
• Think More, 7
• Walk More 7
• Read More, 7 
• Write More, 7

PLUS: You, Only Better