Nicholas Bate

Er, Waiting for what, exactly? 7

1. A better mood. Mood improves with goal focused activity.
2. More energy. Energy grows with progress.
3. Tomorrow. Never comes. Never has, never will.
4. The cool idea. Ideas will flow once you start. Build momentum and you'll get one or two cool ideas.
5. Your friend. They are not a true friend if they are keeping you waiting.
6. A view over the ocean. Absolutely not. That's the reward not the incentive. Now it would simply distract.
7. Permission. Haha: last thing you need.

 

1. A better mood. Mood improves with goal focused activity.
2. More energy. Energy grows with progress.
3. Tomorrow. Never comes. Never has, never will.
4. The cool idea. Ideas will flow once you start. Build momentum and you'll get one or two cool ideas.
5. Your friend. They are not a true friend if they are keeping you waiting.
6. A view over the ocean. Absolutely not. That's the reward not the incentive. Now it would simply distract.
7. Permission. Haha: last thing you need.

Re-Discover Planet Earth

Free.

To those with eyes wide open.

Break out of The Zoo

If only it were an Urban Jungle. But sadly, the reality it's a zoo. The cages are the cubicles, the tranquillisers are e-mail and PPT and feeding times the free coffee and cookies. It's tough to break out but it can be done. Like any prison film you’ve ever seen you know you need to get fit. That's step 1. Stand and stretch and mobilise at regular intervals and then drop to the floor and do 10 press-ups. Do it on the hour, every hour. Twice a day find a secret location in the stair well where CCTV is not observing you and do some stair runs and pull ups. Keep that going. Now you need to add creative thinking, step 2. Smuggle into the compound a book, yes a real book. Anything from this list is suitable. Finally read the blueprint. 

Don't forget to send the rest of the inmates a postcard from freedom. 

Thursday 35

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

The Greatest Productivity Tips, 109

Get more efficient (get more done). Become your own time & motion expert. What works? What doesn’t? Kaizen: constant and never ending improvement. 

Get more effective (get the right stuff done). Know your goals. Keep them visible. Set your compass. Keep it to hand. 

The Greatest Productivity Tips, 108

Priorities, prioritise, prioritise!

Of course: you can't do it all. But how?

By pay-off. By RoI. By the return on your time.

The Greatest Productivity Tips, 107

Choose rather than react. 

Then when you have to react, you know it’s serious. 

Monday is always a great day to become someone who reflects and decides the true priority in any time segment.

On Writing, 109

Is language our greatest gift?

Or is it the ability to capture that language for future reflection?

Go write.

On Vacation, 22

1. Read a stack of books.
2. Do nothing.
3. Swim every day.
4. Explore the old town, learning its history.
5. Have family meals.
6. Go hi-touch, low-tech.
7. Write something every day.
8. Do extra nothing.
9. Experiment with your photography.
10. Get incredible, restorative and deep sleep. And clear the debt accumulated with that early-morning commuting. 
11. Meditate on what's really, really important.
12. Have fun.
13. Spend time 1 to 1 with everyone in the family. Re-connect.
14. Walk everywhere.
15. Laugh again realising the planning round had frozen those muscles.
16. Catch up on your music.
17. Feel really good. For no reason at all.
18. Be up early when it's nice and quiet.
19. Buy your breakfast bread in the local language.
20. Send postcards. They will get there. Eventually.
21. Stretch and do simple yoga every morning. Mobilise.
22. Do even more nothing.

Read More. Scroll Less. This Weekend.

Bram. A spy story you won’t want to put down.

Molly & Ben The trilogy completes.

 

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