Why And How I Decided To Get A Hair Transplant

Reading Time: 6 minutesCovid-19 gave me the opportunity for the first time in a long time to attempt to grow my hair. As there had been a radical change in society I thought well hey – why not make a radical change to my hair as well? In this instance – the change would come from growing my […]

Adventures With Hiring A Running Coach

Reading Time: 6 minutesHey guys! Here’s the time and date: And here I am: I’m actually sitting in a Costa Coffee now in Ealing Common as I have my final session as part of a 6-pack plan I bought with ‘The Running School’. Maybe around 2-months ago I finally picked back up the book that I started reading […]

7 Months Later

Reading Time: 8 minutesIt was the winter of 2019 and I’d decided to myself – you know what Deepak – you love writing. Words have been a part of my life for as long as I can remember. 3 months later, come Jan 22nd I’d written close to 91,000 words. I definitely hadn’t seen that coming. But by […]

A Snapshot Of Life During The Coronavirus

Reading Time: 5 minutesI walked through the door with a cup of Earl Grey tea clasped in my hand and the slither of steam ebbing through the small lip-hold sat upon the plastic cup container. Daniela was in her study, head buried in her phone, barely acknowledging me as I walked through the door. I wandered around our […]

Building Out 1More Rep – The Fitness Bootcamp Business

Reading Time: 6 minutesHey guys, Today, I wanted to talk about building a fitness boot camp franchise with my good friend, Scott Henderson. Here are some of our clients: What I’ll do is talk through several elements of it, beginning with why it’s something that just makes sense for me: I love sports, health & fitness. Right now […]

Preparing for a 42 mile ultramarathon

Reading Time: 6 minutesHey guys, Today I want to throwback to running my first ultramarathon. I managed to dig out my old emails with the Might Contain Nuts family (unfortunately their site is now defunct) It was August 2012, and I’d grown somewhat bored with running marathons, so I was looking for a new challenge. Running an ultramarathon […]

A Step-by-Step Guide to Starting Your Fitness Business

Reading Time: 5 minutesWith fitness being so popular, companies realise its impact on their bottom line; thus, they are investing more and more in this area. Knowing how to start a fitness business can be a challenging endeavour, but it can also be the most rewarding. Start your fitness business with our step-by-step guide – and build your […]

Adopting A Kitten In A Favela In Brazil; And Our Adventures In Rio

Reading Time: 6 minutesHey Guys, I sat around a plastic outdoor table up in the mountains of Rio; sipping a Caipirinha with a group of travellers who were all staying at the same hostel with me; reflecting upon the journey that got me to that table. And would leave me with getting a tattoo on my back of […]

Running 4 Marathons in 4 Weeks in 4 Different Cities

Reading Time: 6 minutesRunning over the years after completing my first marathon back in Chicago became something of a bug, and then it became a lifestyle habit. I still remember turning up to the Chicago start line on race day – and a local runner next to me asked how many marathons I’d done. ‘This is my first!’. […]

How I Ran My First Marathon Aged 23 (In Chicago) After Only Running 3 miles

Reading Time: 6 minutesHey Guys, I still remember when I went to a conference that ultimately changed my life – back in 2008 I had graduated from Warwick University and was standing (somewhat) smug with my job offers from: Deloitte (Graduate tax consulting scheme) Mediaedge CIA (now Wavemaker) (Graduate rotation programme) An IT recruitment sales role (with 65k […]

Is This a Journal or a Blog?

Reading Time: 3 minutes  Hey all, I’ve made an important decision about how I’m going to think about this blog. I’m going to rename it a journal. Because let’s be honest. I’m not doing any of this for ‘SEO’ or for ‘Traffic’ but rather I’m doing this to help clear my mind and to figure things out in […]

The 80/20 of the 80/20 Part 1

Reading Time: 4 minutes  Morning all, Here’s the time. Ideally, I’d like to get to writing these blogs by 6 am – so let’s see how the next week goes. I’ve just started listening to this book and it’s nice to be back listening to entrepreneurial content after taking something of a hiatus to read some other types […]

Building A Feline Empire One Blog At A Time

Reading Time: 4 minutes  Morning all, So here’s the date and time today – and I want to share with you my journey into building an ‘empire’ around cats. So around 6 weeks ago one of my cat’s died unexpectedly – Tommy. It came as a shock to me because it all happened so fast. Around December the […]

Get Paid To Learn To Become The World’s Best

Reading Time: 3 minutesHey, it’s Deepak Shukla here! Thank you for listening to my podcast – down below you will find the notes and key takeaways from today’s podcast so you can implement them in your everyday life! Deepak Shukla · Get Paid To Learn To Become The World’s Best   Hey, guys, it’s 7:51am on Sunday, Sunday. […]

The Necessity Of Applying Massive Pressure Upon Yourself

Reading Time: 5 minutesHey, it’s Deepak Shukla here! Thank you for listening to my podcast – down below you will find the notes and key takeaways from today’s podcast so you can implement them in your everyday life! Deepak Shukla · The Necessity Of Applying Massive Pressure Upon Yourself To Succeed (and how it’ll help you grow) What’s […]

How To Treat Your Podcast Like A Startup

Reading Time: 4 minutesHey, it’s Deepak Shukla here! Thank you for listening to my podcast – down below you will find the notes and key takeaways from today’s podcast so you can implement them in your everyday life! Deepak Shukla · How To Treat Your Podcast Like A Startup – And The One Key Thing It Needs For […]

The Importance Of Being Relentless And Practical Examples

Reading Time: 4 minutesHey, it’s Deepak Shukla here! Thank you for listening to my podcast – down below you will find the notes and key takeaways from today’s podcast so you can implement them in your everyday life! Deepak Shukla · My Plan To Hire Ex Servicemen and Ex Convicts To Scale The Pearl Lemon Group Good morning, […]

Harry Mack – Unparelleled Freestyler

Reading Time: 3 minutesMorning all, I thought I’d write a little bit about a rapper I’ve been listening to obsessively for the last month or so since my buddy Luc introduced me to him. He’s a guy from Los Angeles called Harry Mack, and he’s a freestyle rapper. He’s been around for several years now and was performing […]

What To Do When Your Mind’s All Over The Place

Reading Time: 4 minutesMorning all, Today I’m having one of those mornings where I’m wondering to myself if I know what the hell I’m doing in general. With this in mind – I thought I’d write a blog about it all to help you folks by sharing my insights into what I do when ‘your mind is all […]

The Power Of Just In Time Learning

Reading Time: 3 minutes  Afternoon guys, Feels like it’s been a couple of days since I wrote a blog, so really this title and writing this out in any shape or form is really about a commitment to my writing. Going more than a few days without writing feels odd and so here I am. What’s happened is […]

Getting An Italian Tutor And How That’s Working Out For Me

Reading Time: 3 minutes  Morning all – here’s the time right now: What I wanted to do in today’s blog is really (well as I do in all of them) – write this as a reminder to myself that I really need to get my arse in gear when it comes to actually learning Italian. So during the […]

A Commitment To Giving Up Coffee (and why I’m making this pledge)

Reading Time: 3 minutesHey all, It’s 1605 on the 13th October and I’ve just come out of my second meditation session with Ana the Mexican (and Mexico City-based) yoga and meditation accountability coach. We’re now doing sessions 2- 3x per week, 20 minutes at a time. One of the subjects that came up (and I talk about my […]

My Experience With Intermittent Fasting

Reading Time: 3 minutes  Hey guys, The time is 1320 and I’ve found some time to engage in writing a blog post. And given I’m really hungry right now – I thought I’d base this post around exactly that. My fasting/intermittent fasting escapades. So what I’m trying to do – is to cut down my calorie intake by […]

Discovering I Have High Cholestrol Even Though I’m A Marathon Runner

Reading Time: 3 minutes  Hey guys, A few days back I got some shocking news which I’m going to share with you today. Around 10 months ago I signed up for a blood testing service Thriva. I did this to understand more of my general levels of vitamins, minerals, and hormones present in my system. One of the […]

Preparing To Work With A Personal Fitness Trainer

Reading Time: 7 minutes  Morning all, My Personal Trainer Journey I recently met with a personal trainer whom I’m about to embark upon a journey with when it comes to my fitness. Francesco is his name – a half-German/half-Italian trainer whose a little bit of a man-mountain (i.e you can tell the man trains heavily). To boot – […]

The Power Of Applied Pressure

Reading Time: 4 minutes  Morning all, Starting much later than normal again today. It’s clear to see the impact that the events of the last few weeks have had on my health. The last few weeks is trying to sort out our lead-generation team to get them as quickly as possible to the standard that’s required to be […]

A Guide To Uncommonly Quick Decision Making

Reading Time: 4 minutes  Morning all, I don’t remember the last time I wrote two blogs in one day – so feeling adventurous this morning. Around 30 minutes ago I got this message from a new Twitter content creator I’ve started working with. I’ve been impressed with his approach and enthusiasm and he seemed to be honest in […]

Actions and Decisions That Repeat Themselves Over The Years

Reading Time: 3 minutesMorning all! Here’s the old countdown timer today. Didn’t quite start at 5.50am today – because I had an unproductive morning being on Whatsapp! I want to make a renewed commitment to myself to NOT be on Whatsapp until 7am every day. There’s no need for me to be on before that time – and […]

How To Learn Something New And Learn It Quickly

Reading Time: 4 minutes  Morning all! It feels nice to see 5.50 am on the clock as I write this! Been a good long while since I was able to actually start writing before 6 am – that tells me that I need to up my game and make sure that I’m actually up on time. What tends […]

The Ultimate Guide To Conversation Intelligence

Reading Time: 4 minutes  Morning guys, Up and at it again if you read my blogs! And getting back into doing some keyword research based around subjects that I’m pretty interested in. So I did some keyword research based upon a sales platform calls ‘Gong.io’ – it had a list of the ‘best sales blogs’ – but I […]

36 Ways To Address Your Anxiety On Reddit

Reading Time: 4 minutes  Morning guys, Here’s the time again this morning, And if you read my blogs you’ll know right now that I’m suffering from a decent amount of anxiety because I’m not yet happy with the performance of my lead generation team. We’re not delivering at the levels we should be and so it’s a case […]

Are You Spreading Yourself Too Thin?

Reading Time: 4 minutes  Morning all, I wanted to bash this out quickly before I head out to the cafe and get working. A thought arose in my mind this morning as a consequence of a conversation I had with an SEO expert yesterday. The question is (you guessed it) – am I spreading myself too thin? The […]

Coping With Founder Anxiety

Reading Time: 3 minutes  Morning all! Here’s the time and my morning Pomodoro. I’ve already been out this morning for a walk, got my cup of coffee from a local petrol pump (the Costa inside it). Listened to some of a new audible I started this morning ‘Go For No’ by Richard Fenton (decent start and allegory for […]

The Joys Of Intense Salary Negotiation

Reading Time: 3 minutes  Morning guys, So for the last couple of days, I’ve been involved in intense salary negotiations with my head of outbound sales Adham. It’s been (dare I say it) – an intense learning experience for us both. Over the last 60 days, I’ve been trying to build out a sales team. Whilst this has […]

My Approach To ‘Learn’ Faster Than The Other Guys

Reading Time: 5 minutes  Morning all, Here’s the time: I wanted to discuss this morning my approach to learning with the hope you might be able to ‘nick’ things from it – Let’s get into it – So – Every Friday I have a weekly accountability/coaching call with Valentina Kbedi – On that call, we’ll set ‘targets’ for […]

Am I Focussing On The Right Problem?

Reading Time: 4 minutes  Hey guys, Waking up this morning was a struggle – I guess I’m not sleeping as well as I would like. Ah well – we’ll see what tomorrow brings. Anyway, I’m reading ‘Tribe of Mentors’ at the moment by Tim Ferriss and someone in their said that a favourite quote of theirs that they’d […]

10 ways to fake it till you make it

Reading Time: 5 minutes  Hi guys, Here’s the time right now – I’m actually on the Central line at Bank headed towards Northolt. I’ll be getting off at North Acton to switch so I can get on the train headed towards Ealing Broadway. And then onwards till I hit my end destination near Heathrow Airport where my folks […]

What To Do When You Don’t Know What To Do With Your Life

Reading Time: 14 minutes  Hi all, Here’s the time – And I had this question come up (and it continues to regularly come up) from people within my team. At Pearl Lemon (my marketing agency) we have a placement programme where we work with young people who are often coming to Pearl Lemon with it being their first […]

Having A Lion’s Mentality And Grit And Growth Mindset

Reading Time: 7 minutes  Hi guys, Today I want to rant on behalf of all of those people who get told they’re doing too much, they’re spread too thin and all of the like. These are challenges or objections I keep coming up against as I speak to people about all that I’m working on. Having a lion’s […]

Relationship Advice For Men Based Upon My Massive Failures

Reading Time: 11 minutes  Morning all, I was having a conversation with Frank about our respective relationships and the different challenges that we are facing. He’s not been intimate with his partner for 2-years now. Equally, I had another conversation with George, and he’s continually pushing his partner to be more productive with her time. This got me […]

How To Deal With Feeling Pressure – My Coping Strategies

Reading Time: 6 minutes  Morning guys, Yesterday I stopped writing – or at least I said I would. Lol – here I am a day later and back at it. What it is is that I’m beginning to feel the pressure of all of the balls I’m juggling and things are beginning to slip outside of my control. […]

How To Deal With Ungrateful People

Reading Time: 7 minutes  Morning all, Late to bed, late to rise today so starting much later than I’d like to – but hey-ho (is this expression familiar to you) – it’s still 90 minutes before 9 am which is good. I want to talk today about how to deal with ungrateful people by framing it around a […]

How To Change Your Habits And Then Change Your Life

Reading Time: 8 minutes  Morning all, I was up at my usual time this morning (430am) so it feels great to get a jump on the day and look at something that you’ll find me often talking about as being critical to all of our success. This is the power of habits – i.e how you spend your […]

What Most People Don’t Realise With Building Transferable Skills

Reading Time: 7 minutesMorning all, I was having a conversation with my friend Amir yesterday that got me thinking about the power of transferable skills and how critical they have been to my growth. So, in marketing, there’s this concept of the ‘T-Shaped’ marketer. i.e being generally good at marketing, but then having one specific area where you […]

What To Wear To A Funeral (Having Attended Multiple), As Well As Say

Reading Time: 8 minutes  Morning all, I went to my Uncle’s funeral yesterday and was listening to his brother (my other uncle’s speech) as we sat there in the crematorium before his body was burnt. My uncle (Murly) spoke about what strange several years it’s been… Counting the deaths we’ve seen… There’s Les, Matthew’s Dad, my cousin Anita, […]

The Power of Long-Term Thinking in Life and Business

Reading Time: 6 minutesMorning all, I wanted to discuss something that has come up in conversations with my good friend Amir (of Elevano) over the past couple of days – and I’m seeing it repeated in many other aspects of my life This is the power of thinking long-term is something that I’m really only beginning to appreciate […]

Bird Box – Book Review

Reading Time: 9 minutesMorning all, I’ve had something of a fiction renaissance as it looks like I got through several hours of reading this weekend. More than five specifically. And I’ve just finished reading ‘Bird Box’ by Josh Malerman having watched the movie a couple of weeks back. So this time I wanted to take the opportunity and […]

How to Be an Adult in Relationships Using the 5 A’s?

Reading Time: 9 minutesMorning all, Here’s the time: I want to talk today about how to be an adult in relationships using the 5 A’s. Now I’ve not actually read David Richo’s book ‘How to be an adult in relationships’ (but I intend to now). I really wanted to talk about my challenges in my own relationship where […]

How to Cope With Emotional Distance in a Relationship?

Reading Time: 6 minutes  Morning all, I wanted to start this blog at least before I finish up my blogging for the day. I’ve definitely been feeling emotional distance from my partner for several weeks now and thought it would be a good opportunity to analyse it with you. One of the challenges of the kind of person […]

How to Wake Up Early and Not Be Miserable?

Reading Time: 10 minutes  Hey guys, The time is 07.09am and I think it’s quite late. But then… It is Saturday morning and it may be the case that most people on a Saturday at this time of the day are asleep. And as yesterday I was training my team on time management – one of the things […]

Bird Box Film Review

Reading Time: 8 minutesHey guys, Just finished rewatching Bird Box’ with Sandra Bullock. What a really good movie! I promised myself each time I finished a movie that I feel is worth talking about I’d write up a review. So here I am again on that same journey! Directed by Susanne Beir, Bird Box is a 2018 post-apocalyptic […]

How To Cope With Being Anxious And Angry

Reading Time: 5 minutes  Hey guys, Here’s the time right now: I kind of just wanted to make a start on this before it escapes my mind. If you’ve ever experienced random bouts of anxiety-like the one I’m having now…. Then this is the blog post for you. I wanted to get this ‘off my chest’ before I […]

Michael Inside – Netflix Film Review

Reading Time: 4 minutesHere’s a movie I watched yesterday (Saturday, 27th February) I stumbled upon it while looking for movies to watch on Netflix and noticed it was an Irish prison drama. So I haven’t watched many Irish movies at all, and the accent, alongside the fact that I enjoy prison drama’s in general (I’ve also been watching […]

Where Does Inspiration Come From?

Reading Time: 9 minutes  Hi all, Wow – it’s been several days since I got back to writing. It felt weird not writing – and now it feels weird writing at 17.15. But – I’ve got my Pomodoro running: And off to the races I go. What I’m doing literally right now got me thinking also – Where […]

The Monotony of Life and Its Boring Routines

Reading Time: 7 minutesMorning all, Wow! 4th March… I started on this journey on the 1st of Jan which means I’ve been going now for 65 days more or less. No wonder I feel like the journey is monotonous as hell. And it brought me to a wider challenge of life (especially during lockdown) that I think we […]

How I Overcame Cripping Self Doubt In Life And My Relationships

Reading Time: 9 minutes  Hi guys, The time is: I had a chat with one of my team yesterday (I’ll not name him/her to protect their identity given the sensitive nature of this topic). But in their tone of voice, in their questions – I heard myself, and some things I struggled with so much of my adult […]

The Boy on the Bridge Review

Reading Time: 5 minutes  Hey guys, I finished writing my review of The Girl With All The Gifts, and it seems appropriate to write a review about the prequel to this book by the same author, M.R. Carey. I listened to it immediately after as it had got some cracking reviews on Audible – with some saying they even […]

14 Ways Coping With Depression in Lockdown

Reading Time: 7 minutes  Morning all, We’re now almost a full year into living in this new world that we’re in – and I wanted to talk to you about ‘getting through the grind’ of lockdown – Or rather at least how I’m coping with it so that it can help with your own journey as well. Keeping […]

How I Stay Motivated in Sales and Life – Even After Knockbacks

Reading Time: 10 minutesHi guys, Here’s today’s time – and I want to focus today around motivation – because of several setbacks I suffered after my conversation with Craig Campbellon Friday morning. Let’s go through it. Basically, we looked at the traffic growth for THIS blog – www.deepakshukla.com/blog and quickly realised that as I’ve been producing content – […]

How to Stop Talking About Yourself & Why It’s Important?

Reading Time: 6 minutesMorning all, I was sat with my friend Courtenay yesterday and discussing how work and life have been for him lately. He’s going through some stuff at the moment and was talking about it all. When I got back home after dinner I got a text from him that read ‘thanks for listening dude’ Not […]

15 Ways In Which I’m Coping With Failure And How You Can Too

Reading Time: 9 minutesMorning all, If you were to look back at my most recent blogs you’ll see that I’ve ‘fell off’ a little bit. From the moment I said that I was not completing blogs on the same day up until the last couple of days – I actually stopped writing. That pained me at the time. […]

The Girl With All the Gifts [Book Review]

Reading Time: 8 minutesMorning all I recently just finished reading ‘The Girl With All The Gifts’. What a fabulous book. I’ve seen the movie – but as I had laser eye surgery and wasn’t really able to keep my eyes open for an extended period of time – I thought what better opportunity would I have to read […]

How To Build Happy Habits

Reading Time: 9 minutesHi guys, Today’s a little random in that I feel like writing more than I ordinarily do – and I’ve got around 10 minutes before my 1030am ‘turn on’ to the rest of the world. So I’m taking this moment to get some words out in relation to this ‘feeling’…I’m ‘feeling’. I had the option […]

My Laser Eye Surgery Journey With Accuvision

Reading Time: 26 minutesOk, morning all – I’ve taken a couple of days off from blogging as on Friday at around 1 pm I had laser eye surgery. So – I’m less than 48 hours out from this, and I’ve missed the desire to write and so here I am – back to walk you through my journey […]

My Hair Transplant Journey

Reading Time: 40 minutes  Hi guys, I’m in Istanbul sitting up in my Wow Airport Hotel room waiting for my food to arrive that I’ve ordered from Room Service – Here’s the time: It’s the day after I’ve had my hair transplant surgery which started at 1 pm yesterday and finished at 8.45 pm by the time I […]

My At Home Blood Test Journey and Thriva Blood Test Review

Reading Time: 8 minutesHi guys, Late start to my day today: Not sure I’m going to reach my blog and writing targets but we can only try. However, I rang my local doctor this morning to set up a phone consultation as I got my at-home blood test results last week and discovered that my iron levels are […]

How To Deal With Feeling Overwhelmed In Work And In Life

Reading Time: 9 minutes    Hi guys, It seemed pertinent to write a guide on how to deal with feeling overwhelmed at work and in life right now because that’s literally what I’m feeling at the moment. And I wanted to share with you my ‘real world’ i.e coping mechanisms I’m instilling whilst I type in the hope […]

The Stunning Power of Pets on Your Happiness and Health

Reading Time: 7 minutesLate start today! I’ve just seen my cat Jenny shuttling around my parent’s place and it gave me cause to think about the world before having pets around. Animals first came into my life in 2014, pretty much by accident. I was living (weird saying that now) in Rio, Brazil for a couple of months […]

The Plant Sumo Origin Story

Reading Time: 15 minutesI think it was August 25th that Wadah and I met in Mcdonald’s of all places, haha to discuss what would ultimately become Plant Sumo – our vegan food delivery service. I’d been toying around with the idea of launching some kind of food business over the last year spanning 2019-2020. My affinity for food […]

What It Feels Like Knowing My Parents Will Die One Day

Reading Time: 10 minutesMorning all! Here’s today’s time. I actually shed a couple of tears this morning. I was reading a book called “How To Focus” by Anthony Heston – and part of it covers health. That got me onto googling ‘How To Take Care Of Your Health In Your 30s’ and it got me onto one of […]

My Daily Musings, Sat 2nd Jan 2021

Reading Time: 6 minutesEvening all, Just wanted to make sure I made a start on this before the end of the day beckons. 2nd day of the New Year, and one of the big components of it in the back of my mind is breaking the 312k-word mark. This is what I managed in 2020 (more or less) […]

My Aspirations for 2021

Reading Time: 7 minutesSo, Here’s the time, this time. And this time it’s another stream of consciousness in planning for 2021 and outlining what my hopes for this coming year are. You know – a lot of people are setting goals for themselves, their businesses and all… And I’m realising I have no interest in setting goals. I […]

2020 in Reflection

Reading Time: 15 minutesHi guys, Here’s the time, and I’ve just got back from an 11km run. My first run of 2021. Strawberry (my partner) is in Italy atm and she sent me images for each month of the year in 2020. I’ve been getting various 2021 New Years Resolutions types of stuff as well as 2020 in […]

Lessons Learnt In Recovering From A Hair Transplant

Reading Time: 6 minutesHey guys, Here’s the time and it’s been exactly 8.5 days since I got my hair transplant. Currently my head it itching like it’s literally got severe eczema or acne or whatever might cause intense itching. In this cause I gets it’s the healing process and the thousands of tiny scabs that I’ve got atop […]

Thoughts From 30,000 Feet in the Air

Reading Time: 6 minutesHere’s the time now – I’m actually on my way back from Istanbul – on the plane headed back to Heathrow airport and then onto my parents. I met Joe something in Wow Airport who got the same procedure as I did with Longevita. Those guys are crafty buggers – you can see from the […]

The 100km Running Challenge With My Siblings

Reading Time: 4 minutesMorning all, For me at least anyway – I’ve got a Jolt webinar starting in 80 minutes which will last around 75 minutes and I’ve not yet done any preparation for it. Thankfully it’s an area that I know very well – Of course, the challenge is, is that I’ve got to follow a prescribed […]

How I’ve Changed My Eating Dramatically Over the Last 9 Months

Reading Time: 6 minutesI’ve always been massively into fitness. What I mean by that is the marathons, ultramarathons, and more that I’ve done. Right now at aged 33 – I’m probably living the most sedentary lifestyle I have lived in many years – and I’m training 3x a week to move into amateur boxing. However, I want to […]

What the Way of the Wolf Can Teach Us About Sales

Reading Time: 6 minutesMorning guys, And I’m back here to get after it. Just finished reading Jocko Willink’s daily routine last night before bed and it’s made me realise the need for greater discipline in my life. Still, so much to do…. And that’s why reading is feeling so valuable to me now – it’s unlocking new room […]

49 Timeless Selling Principles From Sandler Rules

Reading Time: 6 minutesHello guys, I’ve actually started turning off my alarm and seeing what happens when I allow my natural sleep cycle to take charge. This is as a consequence of listening to this book – which may bring to an end my ‘430’ wake up…I’m still yet to decide whether it will or not – but […]

How To Talk To Anyone Book Review, No Television, Isolation & Other Musings?

Reading Time: 5 minutesMorning all, The time today. The Value in Not Finishing a Book I didn’t expect to be writing this book review so quickly. But again, like Richard Dawkins God Delusion – I stopped seeing the value in this around halfway through… And after about another 15 minutes of sticking with it further, I decided to […]

How to Close That Sale With Brian Tracy?

Reading Time: 6 minutesHello guys, Here’s the time this morning… And I had something really interesting happen to me yesterday. I’ve got two new commission-only salespeople starting with me today, and it turns out their siblings – Josh and Allison from Alabama. I interviewed them both separately over the last week (neither knew they’d applied for the same […]

So Good They Can’t Ignore You – Cal Newport –

Reading Time: 6 minutesMorning all, It’s Monday 9.35am and I had something of a whirlwind this weekend in terms of reading… I managed to get through the entire book by Cal Newport ‘So Good They Can’t Ignore You’. I’m beginning to enjoy my walks in West Brompton cemetery that I’ll take in the morning.  I’ve actually yet to […]

What I Learnt From Traction by Gino Wickman?

Reading Time: 6 minutesHi guys, Here’s the date today and again I’m back with some of my musings. Today we’re talking about this book: This, for trying to run my business better, has probably been the single most insightful book I’ve read over the last month that I’ve been on this reading odyssey. If Deep Work, Atomic Habits, […]

My Food Prep Journey With KeyToFood

Reading Time: 6 minutesThe time is 12.29 and it’s a sunny Saturday afternoon. I’ve actually just come back from a long walk and I’m feeling ready to eat. Of course, I won’t be cooking – but I’ve still not got OUT of the habit of thinking ok ‘wtf’ am I going to cook. So let’s go through what’s […]

The Obstacle Is the Way by Ryan Holiday Book Review & My Reflections

Reading Time: 5 minutesHey guys, The time and date are as per usual. So today I hit a milestone. I’ve listened to 26 hours of Audible this month – which is very likely my all-time record for a month. I aim to get it to 45 hours per month from June onwards (i.e. 90 minutes per day), with […]

No TV, No Social Media, No Cooking Lunches, Limiting Screentime – the Results One Week in

Reading Time: 6 minutesHey guys, I can’t seem to find my other clock (I must have uninstalled it). Anyway yesterday was a little ‘day of celebration’ as I realised I had gone one-week without watching television. (Television, for me, is an umbrella term for any tv show or movie). I will caveat that by saying I am still […]

How to Say No to Requests, Ideas, Proposals & More?

Reading Time: 6 minutes2 Hour Walks Hey guys I went for a 2-hour walk this morning which I used to part read, part think and take notes. I’m keeping up this walking thing and what an amazing gift it really is. I have an amazing team of people around me executing both high-level as well as more process-driven […]

The Power of Silence, Solitude & Reflection & How to Do It?

Reading Time: 5 minutesHey guys, I realised this morning when I was out for an almost 2-hour walk by myself (more on that later) that this ‘blog’ is becoming more of a journal, which I’ll write in and return from time to time to post thoughts, feelings and ideas that I have This is how I’m happiest and […]

Book Review: Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport & 20 Hours of Audible In 10 Days

Reading Time: 7 minutesHey guys Here’s the again and I wanted to share with you my thoughts after reading ‘Digital Minimalism’ and getting through (according to Audible) 14 hours of book reading in around the last 10 days. Digital Minimalism is an amazing read written by MIT professor Cal Newport about the power of using technology with intention […]

I’m Going to Give Up Watching TV for One Month

Reading Time: 7 minutesHey guys, I’m still reading Cal Newport’s ‘Deep Work’ and I’ve just had my mind blown again. Mind-blowing = when I hear something so radical but something that makes so much sense to me I can’t help but pay attention and take action. Time Sucking Television In the section ‘Quit Social Media’ one of the […]

How to Run 40 Seconds Per Km Faster in 14 Days?

Reading Time: 9 minutesHello guys, I’m beginning to find time for writing again.  (Today’s ticker) What a godsend it is to just block out social media and work on ‘deeper work’ as taken from the highly recommended ‘Deep Work’ by Cal Newport (thanks Zurab Kakabadze and Kevin Wimer) on this one. Whilst I’m not going to segway into […]

Why I Deleted All My Social Media Apps?

Reading Time: 8 minutesMorning all –  2 days since my last blog and I’ve been up since 415am (Jenny woke me up again) and this is the time now: So far this morning I’ve just come back from my morning exercise routine @7am (today a 30-minute run/4.14 per km followed by 200 reps). Whilst before that, I was […]

How to Build New Habits and Live Extremely Powerfully?

Reading Time: 3 minutesHello guys This is the time right now – and I’ve got until 5am before the next part of my schedule starts. A lot has actually changed even since day 1 of writing this blog – and I want to share my journey since I last wrote with you. So Covid-19 decimated my business when […]

The Ultimate Guide on How to Be More Productive

Reading Time: 18 minutesHey, guys, it’s day 39 and here is the time: I’m going to attempt to write this whole blog post in 45 minutes That’s this app:  You can grab it for free from the Mac App store I expect. I’d go and grab it – but as you can see – I’m on a clock. […]

Dealing With Conflict You’ve Caused in Relationships

Reading Time: 12 minutesMorning guys, The time is: I’m back writing my daily blog at a more sensible hour, but chose to switch up my routine somewhat this time. I got back up at 430am again (feeling great about it) I write my answers on Quora first (written 21 answers) I DIDN’T go onto Whatsapp (usually I do) […]

The Ultimate Guide to LinkedIn Lead Generation in 2020

Reading Time: 7 minutesMorning guys, It’s day 22. I’m actually home and not in my usual hotel spot: I made the decision after reading this last night: The world is in something of a meltdown: But hey – if you came here from LinkedIn Lead Generation and you’re wondering what the f*ck. I also keep a daily blog. […]

WhatsApp Hacks, Corona Is Killing Me & Riding the Wave

Reading Time: 6 minutesMorning all. Day 21  Officially three weeks into my daily blog 😛 Enjoying the journey so far. Time check: 5.05am I’m starting at today and whilst I’m here I wanted to share another little hack I use: As you can see I’ve got a couple of tabs open in my Chrome browser I’ve got my […]

How to Become a Top Rated Upwork Freelancer?

Reading Time: 6 minutesMorning guys, Day 20, a nice number to have kept consistent with for almost three weeks now. The time isssss: I started 67 minutes later today (getting out of bed at 5.37am) so that accounts for the time now. I’ll be going out tonight as well but as punishment, I’m going to aim to get […]

The Challenge & Advantages of Being a Solo Founder

Reading Time: 6 minutesHey guys, It’s day 19 and yesterday was something of a turbulent day for me. I operate in a silo. There is no co-founder at Pearl Lemon. I have one for Word Pigeon – but that’s a completely different animal that we shall treat separately. Over the past few weeks, a couple of things have […]

How the Coronavirus Has Affected My Life and Business?

Reading Time: 6 minutesMorning all. Day 18. Let’s go. _____________________ Strawberry (my partner) returned from Turin (in the North of Italy) on the 23rd of February, just as the whole situation started to develop in Italy. Unless you’ve been living under a rock, then you’ll have heard of the Coronavirus – or COVID-19 – the disease this virus […]

My Quest to Grow Brand Pearl Lemon

Reading Time: 6 minutesMorning guys, Day 17 is pretty cool.  Starting a little later, but I’ve decided I want to hit 100-day streaks for my activities before I give them up. To support me in that aim I’ve also started using this app The idea is – is that I’m attempting to build powerful new habits to create […]

My Biggest Business Mistakes of the Last Year

Reading Time: 5 minutesHey guys. Day 16 – back at it: I got to bed pretty late last night at midnight, but today I wanted to wake up ‘on time’, as yesterday I was up late – although I probably will crash later. I was out with my cousin Ajay last night, and we were discussing my agency […]

Starting Exciting New Ventures

Reading Time: 6 minutesDay 15. Coping with my hangover 😛 This is the time I’m starting today’s blog – a full 2.5 hours later than I normally do. Once you build a routine it’s incredible what alcohol can do to destroy it. It was all worth it because I had an opportunity to catch up with my Forex […]

The Power Of Routine

Reading Time: 6 minutesHello all, It’s nice to hit the two week mark today. Day 14 is definitely a good show. Here’s what the gun says. Here is what is playing: I’ve got this on repeat using this plugin: Today I woke up and Strawberry is feeling a little poorly, and she has an exam today, so I […]

The Relentless Pursuit of Excellence

Reading Time: 6 minutesHey guys. You know what it is! Day 13 – let’s roll. This is today’s kick-off time. This was my wake up time: And the reason I got to bed so late was that I was doing this: Getting my medical license to start sparring , as I want to have a couple of amateur […]

The Drawbacks & Loneliness of Entrepreneurship

Reading Time: 5 minutesIt’s day 12. Here we go again – Kick off! Let’s see what ground I break over the next hour! Right now I’m sitting in the Hotel Ibis – and minus the overnight Spanish member of staff who works in two jobs and looks like a ghost each time I see him – It’s me […]

Why You Shouldn’t Build A $100 Million Startup Yet?

Reading Time: 6 minutesHey guys, Day 11! We’re doing it 😛 I managed to write yesterday’s blog in around 60 minutes in the end I believe – let’s see if I can hit the same stride today. I want to talk about the fallacies around building a $100 million startup now and why you probably should either: Never […]

How Posting on Facebook Every Day for 3+ Months ?

Reading Time: 6 minutesHi all, I’ve got 90 minutes to get this done as per yesterday’s blog post. I’ve set myself this new target as I ended up writing for over two hours, although I did several things in-between.  I want to focus on being more productive with this time I have now. I’ve made it to day […]

Building a Highly Motivated Commission Only Sales Force

Reading Time: 5 minutes  Morning guys. Day 9 – we’re doing this! Kick-off is a little later.  Did my best to sleep in (although I did wake at 4am) Yesterday evening I felt terrible, so a little bit more rest was much needed. But still love being up and at it at this time of the morning before […]

My Huge Failures in Trying to Build My Agency

Reading Time: 7 minutesDay 8 – really enjoying this so far! Started a little bit later than usual as I’ve got my head into work. It’s amazing to see that my little blogging group is active: And that people are holding themselves accountable. Creating powerful tribes like this is so powerful for progress. Well done all again! So […]

How to Cope With Burnout?

Reading Time: 5 minutesDay 7 – it’s officially been a week. Today/last night has been crazy. This is the first opportunity I’ve had to take a picture of my watch. As you can tell, I didn’t do my 430am start today. I was awake at 6.45 am and then out of bed at 8 am. Here’s why: Last […]

How to Wake Up Early Without Disturbing Your Partner?

Reading Time: 6 minutesMorning all.  Day 6 rolls on: Got a new little mini-goal now.  Want to get to the hotel and be working by 5am tomorrow. Let’s see if I can post the watch for it tomorrow! It’s a bit of a struggle at the moment to get out of the door without waking my girlfriend up. […]

What It’s Like to Wake Up at 4:30 AM?

Reading Time: 7 minutesDay 5. We’re beginning to form the very early signs of habit building. Glad you’re with me on this journey. If you’re not – get ‘yo ass back to Day 1 lol! But check it: My 430am club on Whatsapp Unless you’ve been living under a rock (or you just don’t know who the f*ck […]

Coping With the Sleepless Nights

Reading Time: 6 minutesIt’s 5.13 am. I’m already sitting in the Hotel Ibis at this time: My Mac photobooth picture for you there Just finished watching The Last Witch Hunter on Netflix. Then I did a Google search of one of my favourite ‘wooden’ actors – Vin Diesel. I find him very watchable, and I think I’ll get […]

How to Be Ridiculously Productive?

Reading Time: 6 minutesIt’s actually day two and 5.31 pm. But I really feel like writing.  Even though I wrote 1.5k words earlier.  Having finished up my ‘52k words’ project around a month back – I’ve been looking for another writing project I can sink my teeth into. This is it. Blogging just for the sake of blogging. […]

The Future of Pearl Lemon

Reading Time: 7 minutesI’m back with day 2 :p Glad to be doing this with you folks. So right now it’s Sunday 9.10am: I’m sitting at the hub by Premier Inn next to West Brompton station: And check the upload speed of this place: It’s better than the internet I have at home (or in any other place […]

Committing to Writing Regular Content

Reading Time: 5 minutesIt’s Deepak Shukla here. Starting my attempt to publish one piece of content every single day. It’s Saturday, , at 540 AM, and I want to finally begin my journey of ‘journaling’.   Made my 430 AM start today. 🙂 Of producing content every single day – and aiming to write at least a minimum […]