My New Old Book
Previously, I wrote about how I’d been taking a shortcut in getting my blog posts out to meet my personal quota of one a day. And, that I’d been writing about things that weren’t forwarding my purpose of writing books to secure speaking engagements talking about the near future now. My New Book Project Today, […]
My Blog Shortcuts
You’d think after 916 blog posts that I’d have it all sorted. And, I haven’t. At the start of this year I made the public declaration that I was going to blog every single day this year. Today is 173 days in a row. We’re just under half way through the year. Pretty damn good […]
The Most Important Stories
What’s the most important story of all? We’ve been sharing about stories lately and some extracts from one of our recent Book Rapper issues called The Long Tale. It’s derived from the eight stories from Valerie Khoo’s brilliant book Power Stories. We’ve previously shared a summary her book here. And, shared the extracts Your Business Story and What’s Your Calling? Plus, […]
Four Ways to Waste Time
Time. Mmm… Important! Our lives are defined by the time we have from our birth and our death. And, the quality of our lives is determined by what we do in between. We don’t know if we have five days, five months or five decades left in our lives. Yet, despite this natural constraint, I often […]
How to Sell Your Service – 13 Sneaky Easy Ways
How to Sell Your Service How to sell your service is the killer question for all thought leaders, business experts and service providers. In this post we share 13 sneak easy ways that are sitting right under your nose. We’ve all been to the supermarket and been confronted by those beautifully smelling product samples. And, […]
Be a Better Speaker
Comedian Steve Martin once said the key to making it in any field was: Be undeniably good. When people ask me how do you make it in show business or whatever, what I always tell them and nobody ever takes note of it cuz it’s not the answer they wanted to hear — what they want […]
The Power of Stories
Every now and then I get a little obsessed and right now I’m obsessed with stories. I’ve been writing some more stories in my blog – notably my two most recent blog posts: How Fast Can You Change and When Was the Last Time You… I’ve also been reading books about Stories and in particular been […]
When was the last time you…
Yesterday I reflected on how quickly things can change. In particular I wrote about the swings in my emotions and my finances over a short period of time. Today I want to reflect on how quickly things can change in terms of the technology and systems we use in our daily lives and the business […]
How Fast Can You Change?
It’s been an interesting week. One week ago had you asked me ‘How’s business?’ I would have said ‘Things are looking up and the best they’ve been looking for 18 months.’ I had 4 projects on the boil. I was excited. And, within a matter of days, everything changed. Whilst one smaller project came through, […]
The Power of Hate
The Power of Infographics Recently, I was searching the web for some really cool infographics. And, on a single page I found a whole host of them. On the surface they looked pretty. And, when I looked a bit closer there was something else going on. The page I found was called ‘Why We Hate […]