Nicholas Bate

Michael Wade

Daily.

Basics 7: Hiking This Summer

1. Good for your health.
2. So good for your mind.
3. Invest in footwear (not necessarily boots), your pack and safety.
4. Go with a buddy.
5. Study the route: choose one where you can enjoy the journey not (just) test your map-reading.
6. Start with short and a day. It's the feet which need to be happy. 
7. Oh and you'll need more water and sandwiches than you thought.

Jagged Thoughts for Jagged Times, 417

Lists need lusts. They need deep passions: things you want to be doing. But how? By consciously bringing the vital few (your writing...) to the fore and by constantly working on systems to automate the trivial many (the laundry). Otherwise the latter will too easily swamp the former.

Re-boot Monday

Anytime, anyplace, anywhere.

Blast from the Past

Be Bold 101

Brilliant at the Basics of Business (v2) 100, 100

A 100 point check-list here.

Basics 7: Get out of your Head, Saturday

1. Cook: chop, slice, kneed.
2. Clear: garage, study, garden
3. Draw: vision, landscape, the dog
4. Hike: earlier to meet the sun, further to fatigue the body, less in the pack to feel more free
5. Make: shelf, brick barbecue, puppet
6. Sit outside: fresh coffee, a view, un-focused thoughts.
7. More human being.

Brilliant at the Basics of Business (v2) 100, 99

Look at the business afresh. Get a proactive team working on that which needs to be changed. And if the team is just you, dedicate 5% of your time every day to the change which must be made for your long-term survival.

Blast from the Past

Sales primer.

Take some time out this weekend

and set the 6 points of your personal compass, including career, wellness and finances.