Nicholas Bate

What did The Beatles ever teach us?

1. Marketing gets you noticed. But great product gets you the awesome fan-base.
2. Great stories never go stale. Penny Lane.
3. High-Performing Teams are 100% loyal.  Once that goes, the team goes.
4. Get ahead of your customer. Sgt. Pepper anyone?
5. The Better You Are. The more critics, copiers and cynics you'll have.
6. It takes many years and many heart-aches to get good at your chosen craft.
7. All things come to an end. But it’s a start to something fresh. 

Always Helpful, 138

This day deliberately left blank. 

August Re-boot Decisions

1. Do a better job without being told.
2. Do a better job without needing immediate approval.
3. Get the small stuff correct: be on time, be courteous and value alternative viewpoints.
4. Take notes in meetings, during business conversations and your own reflections. Reduce to actions and capture on your master list.
5. Keep your in-box as a data source not a compass.
6. Stay focused: 8/8/8. Of work, of sleep, of fun.
7. Prioritise by pay-off not urgency nor bullying nor ease.
8. Eat for nutrition, sleep for restoration, dance to celebrate.
9. Think in narrative; act with lists.
10. Never forget you got a place on Planet Earth, consistently voted the greatest planet in the known universe: coffee, sun-sets and rock 'n roll. 
11. Start now. Always more in You, Only Better the hand-book. 

Always Helpful, 137

Creating a new reading list.

Pleased with what you’ve read on the old one; accepting of that you will never read nor finish.

And some new ones to start.

Thinking Wednesday 7

1. Proactive: what do I need to anticipate?
2. Lateral: what do I need to do differently?
3. Critical: what do I need to do better?
4. Creative: what rules have I set myself which do I not need?
5. Quiet: what inner resources can I access?
6. Frequent: how can I improve this skill of all skills through deliberate practice. 
7. Outrageous: how can I instantly improve my life?

Tuesday Catch-up 35

1. 25 Mini Standards.
2. The Writing Primer.
3. Meet Molly is now out. A love story. A parable. A good read. ”This book is a must read. To be savoured.” And the sequel just out. Molly and Ben have settled into their island haven and are busy making friends and building a business. Their little coffee shop has become a local hub and Molly is a sought after source of help and advice for other business owners. But there are darker forces at work on peaceful Kasta, and soon Molly will need to call on all her resources to counter the threats the community faces.
   This sequel to ‘Meet Molly’ is an equally delightful read; romance and adventure and a cast of quirky characters in an idyllic setting. It is a story about love, friendship and community - a book to curl up with and forget everything else for a while.
4. How to Start your Very Own Business.
5. Instant Productivity.
6. Seven choices.
7. 22 Essentials.
8. How to Create your Home Office.
9. plus The Start Up Myths
10. Stay STRONG
11. Crazy Bold Experiments
12. Just say NO to PPT
13. The Marketing Primer.
14. You, Only Better, the book. 
15. Redundancy
16. Hunter-Gatherer 21C
17. Tackling Stress.
18. Manage that career
19. Be Bold 101
20. You still haven’t read Being The Best?! 
21. Things They Don’t Teach at Business School
22. the secrets of success
23. Life Tips 101
24. Zen & Art of Cubicle Freedom
25. Carnage At Kodak
26. The Very Best Drugs You Need
27. Billions of Light Years Away In Another Galaxy
28. 22 Routes To Your Non Fiction Book
29. Lists For The Life You Love
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
35. The Basic Basics.

Not a Single One made the NYT best-seller list.

But they are all really good.

1. Being the Best: 26 strategies for success.
2. Get a Life: the key strategy from 1 (set your personal compass) expanded in super detail.
3. Do What You Want on kindle. Intrapreneur? Entrepreneur? Make it happen.
4. Instant MBA. Starting your own business? Read this first.
5. Boost your Productivity. Cheap, cheerful, kindle.
6. Give Great Presentations. Cheap, cheerful, kindle.
7. Meet Molly. Great story, perfect read. Plus a gripping sequel. 

On Writing, 36

If you have a difficult section to write…perhaps you can’t get the character’s description correct. Perhaps ‘the why’ isn’t credible. Perhaps-frankly-even you find that chapter dull…

Don’t take a break. Start in another part of the novel: there’s always plenty to be done until one day it’s complete. 

Go write. 

Stop Press

Meet Molly and Molly and The Isle of Kasta free 36h.

Amazon Kindle.

Something for the weekend….

Meet Molly. A tale of love and adventure. A saga. A good read.

Molly and the Isle of Kasta. The sequel.