I love finding new podcasts. Especially when they have a back catalogue I can consume. Even better when the podcast interviews some well known guests at the top of their field. So it is with The Diary of a CEO by Steven Bartlett. He popped up on another podcast I listen to, Newscast, talking about …
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Change career in 3 months: your 7-step guide
Get paid to do what you love, by following these simple steps
The anatomy of an executive presentation
Be briefBe preciseBe memorable Be prepared Be brief For a 30 minute slot, prepare a 5 – 10 min talk. Then do something memorable (see point 3). Then leave time for Q&A. These 3 things in equal measure. Cover 3 key points. Even if your slides are jam-packed with content, facts and figures, pull out …
Establish your boundaries – banish the vampires
David Balev on Unsplash https://unsplash.com/photos/HWUiNmpeHbg?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditShareLink Here’s something I read yesterday and loved: ‘If, after hanging out with someone you feel worn out and depleted, that person is a vampire. If, after hanging out with someone you still feel full of energy, that person is not a vampire. Vampires cannot be cured. Should you find yourself …
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Get into flow with these great daily recordings
Music curation as an art form at flowstate.fm
It’s jab, hook and knock-out for this great blog
I read a lot of blogs and newsletters. There’s often something good in the ones I follow, but rarely is it packed full of premium content. Today I got a great one. This is the silver service of newsletters. It’s the ‘my perfect day’ version of an email. It’s the complex aged wine that has …
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Riding flow vs feeling meh
https://www.ted.com/talks/adam_grant_how_to_stop_languishing_and_start_finding_flow?language=en Adam Grant, How to stop languishing and start finding flow I just enjoyed watching this TED talk by Adam Grant. Three things that stood out for me were: Toxic Positivity When people ask ‘how are you’? you’re expected to say ‘great’ or ‘living my best life’! That’s called toxic positivity. It’s the pressure that …
Become more creative
And an introduction to Every.to
How Tim Ferriss helped me overcome my fear of doing anything
The fear-setting exercise from ‘The 4-Hour Work Week’ the Shaolin Monks and setting my life on a new path
You need more than 24 hours to write a speech.
But if you only have a day (or less), here’s how to make it a success
Do you have a sparring partner?
Some friendly rivalry can keep you sharp, but be careful not to take it too far!
Right or reward? A game of trust
Photo by Susan Q Yin on Unsplash My wife and I were discussing Christmas presents at the weekend. Not because we usually plan this far ahead (it’s June), but because we’re approaching a threshold: the age where children want electronics rather than toys. We’ve been waiting for it for the last couple of years. We …
Should you hit singles or home runs?
Have you struck a balance between consistent achievement and big wins?
Childhood revisited
I read this great post today by Seth Godin https://seths.blog/2022/06/the-coyotes-anguish/ It’s about how Wile E. Cyote is a short term thinker looking for quick wins, unable to recognise sunk costs and move on to a new goal. And it got me thinking…what other hidden meanings were there in programmes I watched as a child? Was …
I remembered a 15 minute talk word-for-word. Here’s how you can do the same
Photo by Teemu Paananen on Unsplash My wife gets frustrated with me about my memory all the time. I forget to reorder toothpaste, so we have to scramble around looking for travel tubes in our bathroom cabinet. Or I forget the details of a conversation we had yesterday, and she’s upset with me for not …
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What happened to your new year’s resolutions?
(This is a speech I gave recently as part of my Presentation Mastery pathway. I’m a member of Chiltern Speakers toastmasters club – you can find out more about us here https://www.facebook.com/chilternspeakers and about Toastmasters more generally here https://www.toastmasters.org) We’re almost half way through the year. Have you lost those pounds you put on over …
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Dream machines
Good morning! How did you sleep? My mum always starts the day by asking this. On the surface it’s a polite enquiry about how you are, like greeting you with ‘how was your day’? when you arrive home in the evening. But there aren’t many answers you can give and the conversation doesn’t go anywhere …
Lonely at the top? You need a group
Photo by Saksham Gangwar on Unsplash Recently I realised that, despite being in meetings all day, I feel like I spend my work day alone. I’m back in familiar, but uncomfortable territory… I started my career as an accountant and found the role so isolating, tinkering with spreadsheets all day, speaking to very few people …
Get sh*t done with the pomodoro technique
Photo by Immo Wegmann on Unsplash First day back at work after a week off. I also spent a couple of days the week before out of the office, so understandably my task list has grown legs and is trying to stamp all over me. I started to get on top of it this morning. …
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This is about you. Have I got this right?
Hi, how are you doing? What have you been up to today? I have a number of exercises to help me improve my writing and the most important, I think, is to get clear about who I’m writing for. The better I know that, the easier it’ll be to produce engaging content by making it …
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