Nicholas Bate

It’s Wet and Windy in the UK. Time to read….

A Tale of Love, Intrigue and Downright Dastardliness

A love story, a parable, an adventure. A good read.

“Absolutely loved this book, a great story and apt for today and an inspiration.”

”Great characters. A page turner”

”I was quickly drawn into Molly's story and found myself caring what happened to her.”

“I enjoyed this book so much ... such a great story taking place in current times and this is so accurately described that reader gets immersed totally.”

”This book is a must read. To be savoured.”

It may be Friday but: Work Less; Think Proactively; Earn More: 25

• Refuse back-to-back meetings.
• Reject meetings longer than 45 minutes and/or three people.
• Run the meeting yourself if nobody else is doing it: know the goal, manage the time, capture the actions.
• Dress like you're serious, not as if you are planning to work on your car nor attend a cocktail party. Unless you are, of course. Especially when you are working from home. In fact because you are working from home. 
• Don't say 'but'. Think 'and'.
• One pad, one action list. Work it.
• Work hard; play hard. Initially separate the two, but as work becomes less (just) a money earner and more a soul enhancer, merge the two.
• Become so good at some aspects of your work it becomes play.
• Simultaneously, get so good at having and managing real down time you become amazingly creative.
• Break the time=money rule and replace it with value=money through your creativity. The former limits your earnings, the latter allows them to take off exponentially.
• Now you are Motoring at Level 1.
• Build your brilliance at your job.
• Thus build your unique value to your clients.
• Thus build your earnings by earning more in less time.
• Manage your standard of living and cost base so you don't need more money. It's simply one expression (only) of how good you are.
• Take more time off and get out of your cubicle to build your non-fee-earning-creativity i.e. creativity with no purpose at all. Crazy? Not all all....
• Surprisingly this will produce your best stuff because there is no external pressure. You're just messin'.
• Your best stuff will build your value and your personal brand.
• And thus your earnings.
• Now you are Motoring at Level 2
• With your gained time write a non-fiction book. From your heart and gut. Your expertise, your thing. You know you've got it right when no publisher wants to touch it; it's too damn niche for them.
• Get it published even if you have to pay for it yourself with the money you are earning.
• Get the book out there to build your brand.
• Now you are Motoring at Level 3
• And that's a level at which you can work less, think proactively and earn more.

 

The Rules of Work, The Truth about Green Tea

Great music, the recipes you need and more.

Always Helpful 39

Revising your goals.

Forget SMART. Forget big and audacious.

It can take years to get them authentic and not a bad photocopy of someone else’s. 

We make the technology;

And then it makes us.

Selling Without Tears

Handy, free, PDF.

Always Helpful, 38

Tidying up as you go along.

In the kitchen, at your desk. In life.

In a Crazy Covid World

How to create a career you will love.

Wednesday Melange 34

1. The Writing Primer.
2. Meet Molly is now out. A love story. A parable. A good read. ”This book is a must read. To be savoured.”
3. How to Start your Very Own Business.
4. 22 Essentials.
5. How to Create your Covid-19 Home Office.
6. plus The Start Up Myths
7. Stay STRONG
8. Crazy Bold Experiments
9. Just say NO to PPT
10. Post Covid Business Essentials.
11. The Marketing Primer.
12. Redundancy
13. Covid-19, 101
14. Hunter-Gatherer 21C
15. Tackling Stress.
16. Manage that career
17. Be Bold 101
18. You still haven’t read Being The Best?! 
19. Things They Don’t Teach at Business School
20. the secrets of success
21. Life Tips 101
22. Zen & Art of Cubicle Freedom
23. Be Bold 101
24. Carnage At Kodak
25. The Very Best Drugs You Need
26. Billions of Light Years Away In Another Galaxy
27. 22 Routes To Your Non Fiction Book
28. Lists For The Life You Love
29. Her Notes To Herself
30. How To Lessen E-Mail Pain
31. Professionalism 101
32. 21 Ways to Improve your Zoom Conference Call.
33. Productivity Primer
34. 101, redux.

Work continues to be Weird in a Covid World, 7

1. They promise you money but you want appreciation.
2. They allow you a nice chair to protect your back but never allow you sufficient time to get up and stretch and take a stroll at lunch-time.
3. At the magnificent Zoom off-site they talk about creating world-class customer service and client experience. Back in your home office they won’t fund a working printer. 
4. One of the values is individuality. But woe betide if you don't wear your security badge at all times on your two specified days in the office. 
5. We're in this together. Until the re-org. which is as well-leaked as the government travel lists.
6. The meetings in custom-designed meeting room 'Rivers & Oceans' stagnate with poor time-keeping, inability to agree an action and lack of leadership. And a frustration that it is impossible to open the windows. And easily dissipate a lurking virus. 
7. The mission statement is to deliver excellence in every conceivable form to every corner of the globe whilst facilitating the ...... your postponed ‘because of the unprecedented challenge of covid’ personal review has been postponed yet again.

The good news. The coffee in your home office is world-beating.