Your Weakness Superman has Kryptonite. Batman has the Joker. Achilles had his heal. We all have a chief weakness. We all have an arch enemy. We all have something that stops us from getting what we want. Previously, I wrote about my strengths. It’s important to work in your strengths.
Finding a Recipe I don’t cook from recipes very often. Probably only once every two or three weeks. And, whilst I do have a handful of cookbooks, I don’t tend to use them anymore. I’m more likely to simply type something into the Google machine and see what comes back.
Strengths Finder Want to be happy? And, boost your wellbeing? And, be more satisfied with your life? Graeme Cowan suggests in his new book Back from the Brink, that we can achieve all of this if we simply work in our strengths. So, what are you great at? Whilst this
How to Structure Your Ebook A lot of what has been written about creating ebooks and books focusses on the usual things of Topics, Planning, Writing, Editing, Publishing, Selling and Promoting. This is all useful stuff. And, it’s all pretty standard stuff. One of the big misses from this list
Rework How You Get Things Done I’ve just re-read Re-work and thought a re-view would be useful. Sorry, couldn’t re-sist. Oops. I first read this book a few years ago. And, to be honest I raced through it without taking it to heart. I fell for the trap that Seth
Hot Melbourne It’s been really hot the past few days in Melbourne. And, I don’t mean 30C, I mean stinking hot… 40C+. I work from home and I don’t have air-conditioning. I do have a trusty fan and a cold shower. And, sometimes that’s not enough. Anyway, I decided it
Who is Sheryl Sandberg? Sheryl Sandberg is the Chief Operating Officer of Facebook. Her TED Talk, Why We Have Too Few Women Leaders, has been viewed by more then 3,000,000 people. She serves on several boards, has a BA and MBA from Harvard and is married with two children. Previously,
Mobile Friendly If you’re like most people you probably carry your mobile phone everywhere you go. And, even when you’re at home it’s usually within reaching distance. Your smartphone and tablet are increasingly how we go online. In the good old days we only had to design our website for
My Podcast Listening Habits My number one piece of advice for anyone wanting to create their own podcast is to start listening to how other people are doing it. Go through the whole process of subscribing and listening and make a list of the things you admire and the things
Your Product Plan Previously we wrote about 15 ways to grow your business using products. One item that we could add to this list is: Use products as your retirement plan. We don’t usually think of ‘growing your business’ and ‘retirement’ in the same sentence. And, neither do we usually