Nicholas Bate

Always Helpful, 154

Slowly but surely building your own personal emergency fund. 

It builds your confidence.

Wake Up, 33

1. Just wake up one morning.
2. And think:
3. this is it.
4. Not a rehearsal.
5. Nor a practice.
6. Not a maybe.
7. This is it.
8. And I've got stuff to do.
9. I can’t mess around with a screen surrounded by yellow stickies dragging me down...
10. Nor hoping for a lotto win.
11. Nor the biggest excitement in my life being the Friday upgrade from tall to venti mocha.
12. No, no, NO. 
13. Just wake up one morning.
14. Just wake up.
15. Stretch.
16. Fully. 
17. And consider:
18. what's it all about (Alfie)?
19. What little bit of this planet can you make a little better?
20. Absolutely.
21. Sometimes you feel down.
22. That you cannot do another 1000 words, another job submission. Another wretched pitch.
23. The world’s against you.
24. That it'll always rain when you go running.
25. Sometimes you think it's you.
26. Actually all you need to do is wake up
27. Fully.
28. Believe in your amazing self.
29. Make a decent coffee.
30. Re-do the pitch. Cool and radical.
31. Tap out those words.
32. And write to him/her for goodness sake.
33. Just wake up this morning.

How to Create Your Successful Start-up 2023, 7

1. A difference (something nobody else does) must be identified;
2. That difference which is identified must be needed and/or wanted;
3. That difference which is identified and needed and/or wanted is also within your area of expertise;
4. That difference can be offered consistently and to high quality;
5. For a price which makes profit.
6. And that difference can be maintained through continuous innovation.
7. To maintain consistent and continuous profitability which maintains your desired lifestyle  and/or pleases shareholders and respects the community and planet.

On Writing, 52

Keep editing.

Keep editing.

Keep re-reading.

Keep editing.

Your novel is getting better all the time.

Meet Molly. Great story. Great read. Fab fable. 

What to Seek in your Self-Help Book

Here.

All States

Visited. 

Christmas Presents 2022, Sorted.

• Brother Luke, Brand New Job:  The Budget Business Skills Collection.
• Sister Sue, thinking of an MBA: Instant MBA
• The Team at Work: How To Be Brilliant
• Stressed Out Buddy, Tom: Get a Life
• July 2023 Best Man Eric: Love Presenting
• Jenny: planning start-up: Brilliant at Business
• You: You, Only Better
• Anybody wondering what’s the answer in this Brave New World of ours…..Meet Molly.

Always Helpful, 153

Visit the library.

Find a good novel or two. 

Read, relax and escape in a crazy world.

Friday 36

1. 25 Mini Standards.
2. The Writing Primer.
3. Meet Molly is now out. A love story. A parable. A good read.
   
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.
36. Not a single one made the NYT best-seller list. 

Work Less; Think Proactively; Earn More, 25

1. Refuse back-to-back meetings.
2. Reject meetings longer than 45 minutes and/or three people.
3. Run the meeting yourself if nobody else is doing it: know the goal, manage the time, capture the actions.
4. 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.
5. Don't say 'but'. Think 'and'.
6. One pad, one action list. Work it.
7. 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.
8. Start the strategy outlined in 7 by becoming so good at some aspects of your work it becomes play.
9. Simultaneously, get so good at having and managing real down time you become amazingly creative.
10. 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.
11. Now you are Motoring at Level 1.
12. Build your brilliance at your job.
13. Thus build your unique value to your clients.
14. Thus build your earnings by earning more in less time.
15. 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.
16. 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....
17. Surprisingly this will produce your best stuff because there is no external pressure. You're just messin'.
18. Your best stuff will build your value and your personal brand.
19. And thus your earnings.
20. Now you are Motoring at Level 2
21. 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.
22. Get it published even if you have to pay for it yourself with the money you are earning.
23. Get the book out there to build your brand.
24. Now you are Motoring at Level 3
25. And that's a level at which you can work less, think proactively and earn more.

Always more in You, Only Better and Meet Molly.