Nicholas Bate

Life Reminder 7

With patience and persistence you will find a solution.

The Skills & Tools You'll Need for 2020, 101, 11-15

11. Resilience. Get tough. Get out more in the weather. Hike more. Carry more. Set a higher standard.

12. A Compass. One on your desk. One in the kitchen. Am I heading in the direction I intended?

13. Sleep. Fine tune so that it's better than that of a baby. Just a little shorter. 

14. An Axe. Go cut wood with a perfect swing. Wake up sore but getting stronger.

15. Hunter Gatherer 21C mindset. Re-visit the check-list here.

1 to 10 are here.

The Skills & Tools You'll Need for 2020, 101, 1-10

1. Attention. The ability to hold it and focus it in a world of more noise than ever.
2. A French Press. Don't mess about. Drink decent coffee.
3. No. You'll need even more 'NO's than ever to hit your priorities and have a personal life.
4. A Wall Planner. Analogue, yes. Old-school, yes. But schedule ahead that which you desire to happen.
5. Walk. Walking keeps you sane, keeps you well, helps you think.
6. A steamer. Eat more vegetables across the spectrum sourced as locally as possible. Google it: it's the one bit of diet advice which is consistent across all cultures.
7. Make. Get out of your head. Tend a garden, knit a jumper, bake a cake, paint a wall. We're a mind-body. Not a brain with a body attached. Integrate and work it.
8. Expert. Become your own: financial in particular.
9. Propelling pencil: fast and ever-ready for thoughts and sketches and more.
10. Stand. Strengthen your back, think better and have more confidence.

Burning Pine

the blog, is here.

Blast from the Past

Routes to your Non-fiction book.

Basics 7: Christmas

1. Keep it simple. Reduce lists 'to do', events to attend, expectations of perfection.
2. Grab the opportunity.  To forget work, have conversation, eat real food.
3. Walk. It's more than locomotion; it powers our essential operating system of thinking.
4. Return to Dickens and the choirs.
5. Write 1000 words: the start of your set-at-Christmas novel.
6. The perfect gift? Your time, your attention, your thought.
7. Whatever your beliefs. Slow down and notice the magic of planet earth and the delights of a mind-expanding universe.

Presentation Reminder 7

There is certainly no time to rehearse if you hope for big chunks of time to do the whole thing. No, 'micro-rehearse' the natural segments. 5 minutes here, 10 minutes there. And start now for the one at the kick-off in January.

The handbook.

Blast from the Past

How To Be More Intelligent.

Doer Notebooks

are here.

Thank You 2019

To readers of this blog: regular and occasional drop-ins. To those who write to thank, to remark and (actually zero in 2019) to complain. To those who buy a book of mine (or two or more). To amazing fellow bloggers many of whom (but certainly not all) are encapsulated in the perfect Power Bloggers List curated (ouch!) by outstanding contributor Kurt Harden.

A special thanks to Michael Wade. As well as being a very fine blogger, writer and consultant, Michael helped me get started on this precarious thing called blogging. If you do decide to start, perhaps consider that it is not 'to monetise', it is not 'for audience'; like The Beatles, do it because you live it, you breathe it, you love it and all else will follow.

Stay tuned. The Universe is yet young.