Never Again? 30-Day Pomodoro Technique Challenge
Did you know that using the Pomodoro Technique can increase your productivity by up to 25%? If that was true, that would make it the greatest productivity hack. Imagine what you could accomplish with a boost like that. The Pomodoro Technique Challenge Lately, I’ve been struggling with distractions and procrastination. And that means I’m not […]
Book Writing Tips – Write your book easier
You’ve decided to write a book. Great. Now, do you want to write it the hard way or the easy way? Writing a book is not easy Writing a book is not easy. I’ve written and finished ten of them and started more than 25 others that I haven’t finished. If it was easy, I would […]
Three simple ways to define your thought leadership
How do you define your thought leadership? That’s a big question for content creators and aspiring thought leaders. I know a lot of people, including me, who have wasted a lot of time over many years trying to get this right. We’ve spent years going back and forth, back and forth, trying this and trying […]
Content Creation for Beginners – Five Big Mistakes to Avoid
Content Creation for beginners can be a difficult time. It seems that a lot of people will tell you what you need to do. Everyone has an opinion. But when you’re a beginner, it’s more important to avoid making big mistakes. The big mistakes can cost you lots of time and energy but most importantly […]
The Ultimate Guide to Creating Thought Leadership Content
We need more Thought Leadership Content While the world doesn’t need more content – we’re already drowning in it – we desperately need more thought leadership content We need people to make sense of the chaos, to provide clarity in our uncertain world and, most importantly, to present fresh possibilities and alternatives to the choices […]
Thought Leadership Strategy and Your Hyper Focus
Thought Leadership Strategy – The three things every thought leader needs to build to have a successful business. Thought leaders often run their business as a solo operator. And this can be hard because there is always a never-ending list of things to do. At times, it can be hard to know what to focus on. […]
How to be focused and stay focused at work
What does it mean to be focused? To be focused, we first need to define what we’re talking about. According to Google, the word ‘focus’ is searched between one million and ten million times every single month. That makes it a very popular and desirable thing. While some of these searches are looking for a […]
Where is your focus?
Driving in the Dark Last night I was driving home in the rain. It appeared to be darker than usual. Given it hadn’t rained in Melbourne for a while I thought that I simply wasn’t used to driving in those conditions. As I drove closer to home I started to think there was something wrong […]
Five Critical Things
Recently I had my Book Rapper website hacked. The good news is that they merely were able to log into some server files and they didn’t deface my site. This prompted talking to my web hosts WD3 and their Managing Director Brian Coogan about website safety on our Ideas Architect podcast. Brian was able to […]
Are you Focussing on the Wrong Thing?
A Fitness Trap I’ve just come back from the gym. I’m a gym-junkie. I go 4-5 times a week. And, typically, when I talk to people at the gym or about the gym a familiar question gets asked: Are you trying to lose weight or put on weight? I find this an odd question. I’m not really […]