A thoughtful and thought-provoking comment on yesterday’s blog from Susann: ‘It depends a lot on what you actually do with your screen. Blogging is OK, in my opinion. But I’ve noticed that I spend a lot of time reading useless “news” or scrolling Facebook – and there are so many other, useful, things I could […]
Continue readingI had a fascinating conversation this morning with one of my bootcampers in our one-to-one session. She’s worried about my daily blogging habit (and to a lesser extent the running). ‘You need rest days,’ she said. ‘You need days when you put all the screens away and just disconnect.’ I genuinely can’t remember the last […]
Continue readingI’m preparing Episode 61 of The Extraordinary Business Book podcast, which will go live on Monday (I’m sure you know that, since you’re probably subscribed on iTunes, I just mention it in passing). It’s a conversation with Tim Harford, The Undercover Economist, presenter of More or Less on Radio 4, and author of Messy. And […]
Continue readingIt’s been a busy day. I’ve done NEARLY all my daily tasks (posting this blog is one more off the list), but one I haven’t yet done is my 5 minutes’ keyboard practice. And now there’s a problem: the whole of Bramley has been plunged into darkness by a power cut. Luckily my friend Sarah […]
Continue readingThis week in the This Book Means Business Bootcamp we’re looking at how you can use the writing of your book strategically to build your network. In your business you’ve got lots of different types of relationships: there are your existing clients, your groups and your email list, there are partners and suppliers, peers, network […]
Continue reading‘I’m trying to beat my PB for the London Marathon,’ one of my friends posted on Facebook on Sunday morning. ‘Last year I managed 2 hours 40 minutes… before I got bored and changed channel.’ Well, I missed the live coverage completely – I was larking around on Cogden Beach at the time – so […]
Continue readingBack home after a lovely few days away (and yes, we played the Haribo story game on the way back too, my favourite being the crazy experimental chef whose fairy godmother stopped by to teach him how to boil an egg, and who sat down with her to soft-boiled egg with soldiers every night after […]
Continue reading[NB deliberately posting in afternoon to avoid suspicions of April Fooling – though the real news is so bonkers these days that all the fun seems to have gone out of the tradition….] One of the most fundamental personality traits, common to almost every method of measurement, is the tendency towards extraversion or introversion. It’s […]
Continue readingPutting my full Table of Contents online for comment felt terrifying at the time – like standing naked in Tesco – but has proved more helpful than I dared hoped for lots of reasons: accountability, visibility, content development and engagement to name just a few. (The Tesco gig would be effective in terms of visibility […]
Continue readingToday’s post is over at Birds on the Blog, and was written standing up because I can’t get up again if I sit down. If you have any great tips for broken hip flexors, please send them over… Read more…
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