Nicholas Bate

Tuesday Dimensions of Fitness, 7

Dimension 1: Fundamental e.g. walking.

Dimension 2: Mobility e.g. household activity, light gardening or yoga.

Dimension 3: CV Intensity e.g. skipping or basketball.

Dimension 4: Resistance e.g. heavier gardening or weights work at gym.

Dimension 5: Stamina e.g. standing much of day or longer runs.

Dimension 6: Supporting care: nutrition and deep rest

Dimension 7: Integration: Hunter-Gatherer 21C.

Managing a Business in a Crazy World, 19

Remote shouldn’t mean distant.

Stay close to your people. Encourage, support and know what they are up to. 

The Life List

With Michael Wade.

Fabled Super-Powers, 7

1. Everyday simple courtesies.
2. Stop & Think.
3. Encouragement.
4. Agree something. And keep to the agreement.
5. Appreciation.
6. Enthusiasm to learn.
7. Healthy debate.

On Writing, 75

Write.

Budget therapy.

Budget stress management.

A whole lot of fun.

Fingers, brain, keyboard: go. 

Bram, A Spy Story. 

2023: still every chance of it being your best year yet

1. You've already got a plan. You created it in January. Re-fresh it. Every day refine it, hone it and ensure it's a winner. 
2. You are going to be SO fit that energy for the plan will be 100% unleashed. How? Hunter-Gatherer 21C.
3. Zero blame. Zero negativity. Zero crap food. 
4. Every single problem commentators list for 2024/25 you will ask: Can I fix this? If yes, do so. If no, execute your plan B. But stay resourceful, walk tall and love planet Earth: consistently voted the greatest planet in the known universe with great coffee, awesome rock 'n roll and mountains, beaches and deserts to make you want to settle here. And books. Oh, man the books....
5. It finally 'clicks' that you don't need much stuff-at all-to be very, very happy. And in fact paradoxically too much stuff makes you unhappy as you worry about what might happen if you lose it. 
6. It finally 'clicks' that you can let go of the need to be liked by everybody. And thus stop diluting the best version of you. 
7. You manage your mood perfectly through music, walking and writing/reading.
8. You finally allow some of those fears to surface, to become real and you work on them until they become assets: from fear to jubilation.  Be Bold: the list/the movie/the book.
9. You will learn through courses. Invest 2% of your income in your brain.
10. You will learn through travel. Every city, every language and every culture tips you deeper into understanding yourself.
11. You will learn through the company you keep. Love, listen and laugh not control, control, control. 
12. You will learn through writing in your journal.  Daily: rain or shine. Don't analyse: just write until the demons are exposed and die through lack of oxygen. 
13. Thinking will return as your greatest asset. Proactive: what do I need to anticipate?
14. Lateral: what do I need to do differently?
15. Critical: what do I need to do better?
16. Prioritisation will be your greatest skill. To follow your Personal Compass*.
17. To automate your trivial many*.
18. To remember a decision is not a decision until you take an action.
19. You will simplify in a world of complexity. Not simplistic, simple.
20. You will minimalise in a world of 'stress-by-stuff'. Do you love it? Is it useful? Otherwise: it goes.
21. You will make 2023 the year you realise that your communication to yourself will dictate the quality of your goals. Believe in yourself. 
22. Make it the year of more walk, less talk. In both mind and body.

*always more detail in Being the Best (handbook) / Meet Molly (novel)

The Most Powerful Productivity Tips, 53

Solitude.

Wednesday Catch-Up, 36

1. 25 Mini Standards.
2. The Writing Primer.
3. Bram, A Spy Story is now out; a story of coming of age, of Queen and country and the origins of Covid-19. “Once you start reading this book, it’s difficult to put down. Initially, you are immersed in the delights of Oxford academia, only to then be exposed to the starkness and brutality of Moscow during the Cold War. Bram, a brilliant Oxford chemist, turns spy whose mission is to save the world from a highly dangerous and ubiquitous threat. This book is characterised by most of the attributes of a good spy story with action, heroic exploits by a larger-than-life protagonist and a strong plot. Well worth a 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. Being the Best version of you, the book, back in stock.
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. 

On Writing, 73

Once you have started your novel and written the first few chapters, ensure you write the final chapter. You’ll have noticed from your own reading and viewing how hard it can be to close a story in a satisfactory way.  Ensure you don’t have that problem. Get it written and then you can enjoy the journey. 

Bram, A Spy Story. 

The Most Powerful Productivity Tips, 52

We often have a natural tendency or bias to work at a certain scale. Some of us, it’s the detail. For others, it’s the big picture. 

Practise scaling. Go large. Go small. Flex those synapses.