Nicholas Bate

The Most Powerful Productivity Tips, 83

Know your mission and decide to not be distracted from your mission.

Sunday Questions Seven

1. What's going to change?
2. What's going to stay the same?
3. What's finally going to end?
4. What needs a refresh?
5. What's so obvious it's been ignored?
6. What needs some reflection time?
7. What needs to start today?

Bram, A Spy Story. Free for a few more hours.

Download it to Amazon kindle, your device or the app.

A Tale of Espionage as you want it be told. Page-turning, retro and heroic

Saturday Medicine without drugs

1. Movement and mobility: move, stand, walk, hike, dance, climb, carry...
2. Time out and digital interrupt free: evenings, week-ends, conversations...
3. Love and listening: from someone who cares for you...
4. Change and reflection: to stimulate and refresh...
5. Books and writing: ideas in, ideas out; an ever-refreshing you...
6. Vegetables: of every colour in the spectrum...
7. Health mindset: what have I done today to boost my wellness?

Stop Press: Bram, A Spy Story. Free for 48h.

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A Tale of Espionage as you want it be told. Page-turning, retro and heroic.

Friday 36

1. 25 Mini Standards.
2. The Writing Primer.
3. Bram, A Spy Story: 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. 

 

1. 25 Mini Standards.
2. The Writing Primer.
3. Bram, A Spy Story: 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. 

Bram, A Spy Story: free for 72h.

Is free for the next 72h.  Download it to Amazon kindle, your device or the app.

It’s 1988, a time before personal computers and mobile phones. Margaret Thatcher is UK PM and George Bush is US president. Phil Collins has released A Groovy Kind of Love, Bran Muffins are popular as the low-cholesterol craze peaks and Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History of Time is a best-seller.

Bram has a critical mission.

This is a story of coming of age, of Queen and country and the true origins of Covid-19.

”Exciting story, fast paced with lots of action and a nostalgic retro setting.”

“This book is characterised by 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.”

“I enjoyed reading Bram, it’s a good story with plenty of action. The story plays out against the background of recent history; I cared about the main characters but paused occasionally to reflect on the events in that background. Several hours of pleasure and interest in this book!”

“Great story”

Available here. 

Wednesday Productivity Dozen

1. All productivity is the interface of what and when.
2. Manage what proactively rather than reactively i.e. plan, choose and anticipate.
3. Manage what with a Master List i.e. 1 list in 1 place of all you have to do, want to do, work and home.
4. Review that list daily, weekly and monthly.
5. Break large tasks down so that all on your Master List is brain and time friendly.
6. Schedule ahead when you will do a task with the use of an old-school wall planner.
7. Do not plan with the calendar on the phone:  screen size simply cannot provide the overview and perspective you need if you are to keep out of the swamp.
8. Get good at the polite no. Because every 'yes' to more work says no to health, your son's bedtime story and that game of squash.
9. Focus on your vital few every day. Improve systems to manage your trivial many.
10. Review Productivity 101
11. Remember e-mail is easy to send but it obeys Newton III.
12. Remind yourself you can do anything but you cannot do everything.

Reflective Thinking

Means that once you realise your goal may well be hard, it becomes easier. 

Paul Craig

Is here.