I’ve just finished one of the most moving interviews I’ve ever conducted on The Extraordinary Business Book Club. Last year I ran an online summit – World-Changing Writers – and one of the many stellar book folk I interviewed was Michael E. Gerber, author of The E-Myth series. (When I left coprporate life to set […]
Continue readingExactly 100 days ago I wrote a blog. I had no intention of doing anything crazy with it, but by the end, I found I’d committed myself to blogging every day, with no end date. Not only that, but I’d somehow committed to running at least a mile every day too. (It’s all Seth Godin’s […]
Continue readingToday’s post is over at Birds on the Blog, looking back at a couple of recent podcast episodes and drawing out some lessons on attitude for entrepreneurs and writers. Are you a DD?
Continue readingOn Wednesday I carved out a few hours to focus on planning for 2017: usually what happens is I block out a day in the diary for this kind of thinking and then it gets eaten up by the to-do list. This time, however, I used my new-found understanding of myself as an Obliger (see […]
Continue readingI know it’s a bit early to be thinking about January, but you’ve got to plan ahead. What are you going to look forward to once the Christmas parties are over? Here are a few ideas. You’re welcome. 1. Use discarded wrapping paper to make a collage 2. Throw every scrap of left-over cheese into […]
Continue readingMy children don’t read this blog. So it’s safe to reveal here two of the presents they’ll be getting for Christmas: original framed illustrations from Judy Hayman’s Dragon Tales series. I published the sixth and last volume, The Dragons’ Call, in October, marking the end of two years of Dragon Tales. They began as bedtime […]
Continue readingA sneak peek at next week’s Best Bits episode, which I finished recording this morning: If you’re finding it tough – building your business or writing your book – here’s some wise words from Amy Wilkinson. In Episode 32 Amy talked about how she wrote The Creator’s Code: The Six Essential Skills of Extraordinary Entrepreneurs […]
Continue readingToday I started putting together the Extraordinary Business Book Club ‘Best Bits’ episode (Episode 40, which will go live on 19 December). Every 10 episodes, I take the opportunity to look back over the previous 9 and showcase the bits that I love best. (And those that others request too – it’s always lovely when […]
Continue reading…don’t just ask them. If you REALLY want to know if an idea has legs, the best way isn’t to ask people if they’d buy it, it’s to see if they DO buy it when they’re given the opportunity. This is an audacious technique, but Nicholas Lovell used it to great effect when he had […]
Continue reading‘The Curve comes in three parts. You have to find an audience. That probably, but doesn’t necessarily, involve free. You have to earn the right to talk to them again. It’s no good having a newsletter that you get people to sign up for if they immediately unsubscribe because your content is boring and rubbish. […]
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